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Online Course | Next Level Wood-Fired Cooking with Gill Meller

Online Course | Next Level Wood-Fired Cooking with Gill Meller

£45.00 Inclusive

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Overview

Gill will teach you how to cook fresh fish on the beach, create and cook meat on a spit, and inspire you with new recipes for wood-fired vegetables. You’ll learn how to build a wood fire, cook with fire safely, and extinguish the fire once you’ve finished cooking.

Fish recipes include scallops cooked in their shells, smoked fish on a wooden plank, and clay-baked trout with lemon and dill. Gill will also demonstrate vegetable recipes, including a favorite brunch dish—mushrooms with sage and fried eggs—and how to char brassicas to enhance their wood-fired flavors.

In the final lessons, you’ll learn to go the whole hog (roast). Gill will guide you through creating your own wood-fire spit, from cooking over fire to carving and hosting a celebratory hog roast party.

Highlights

  • Master the art of confidently building a fire.
  • Explore various methods to cook vegetables, fish, and meat over an open flame.
  • Learn how to use a spit for perfectly roasted meat.
  • Gain skills in controlling your fire for safe cooking.
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Overview

Gill will teach you how to cook fresh fish on the beach, create and cook meat on a spit, and inspire you with new recipes for wood-fired vegetables. You’ll learn how to build a wood fire, cook with fire safely, and extinguish the fire once you’ve finished cooking.

Fish recipes include scallops cooked in their shells, smoked fish on a wooden plank, and clay-baked trout with lemon and dill. Gill will also demonstrate vegetable recipes, including a favorite brunch dish—mushrooms with sage and fried eggs—and how to char brassicas to enhance their wood-fired flavors.

In the final lessons, you’ll learn to go the whole hog (roast). Gill will guide you through creating your own wood-fire spit, from cooking over fire to carving and hosting a celebratory hog roast party.

Highlights

  • Master the art of confidently building a fire.
  • Explore various methods to cook vegetables, fish, and meat over an open flame.
  • Learn how to use a spit for perfectly roasted meat.
  • Gain skills in controlling your fire for safe cooking.
Can’t find the right date? Click here to receive an alert
when new dates are released for this event.

Reviews (4)

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  1. Diana

    “Our chef teacher was enthusiastic, friendly and very helpful and informed. I love cooking and I really enjoyed myself. However long you’ve been cooking you can always learn new things and the dishes we made were all delicious.”

  2. Jeanette

    Great food and all fresh and local, fabulous staff, we picked up plenty of tips

  3. George

    Brilliant chef for the day, it was amazing thankyou, and really appreciate the hard work and effort that must go on behind the scenes everyday to organise all you do, as well as to do the day itself thankyou.

  4. Zoe

    Well organised, relaxed, great environment to learn – I enjoyed the course and it was inspiring too!