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Culinary Boot Camp 1

The Chopping Block Lincoln Square @ 4747 N Lincoln, Chicago, IL

Experience the thrill of culinary school without the commitment or cost at The Chopping Block Lincoln Square. Discover fundamental cooking techniques, from knife skills to advanced methods, and bring it all together with a final menu created with your classmates. Elevate your cooking skills in just five sessions with this unique culinary foundation course.

(260) All levels 18 and older
$2,530

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Culinary Boot Camp 2

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $1,950
  • 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL
  • 40 hours over 5 sessions

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  • $1,950
  • The Chopping Block Merchandise Mart @ 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza Ste 107, Chicago, IL 60654
  • 40 hours over 5 sessions
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What you'll learn in this professional cooking class:

For our Boot Camp 1 graduates who just can't get enough! In the advanced sessions, we'll go even deeper into the Boot Camp subjects plus introduce some new ones, including baking, shellfish and handmade pasta.

Day One-Sweet and Savory Doughs:
  • Understanding the differences in flours
  • How to prepare yeast risen and laminated doughs
  • Preparing homemade puff pastry, quick breads, pie dough, pasta and gnocchi doughs
  • Making savory tarts and handmade ravioli
Day Two-Meats and Sauces:
  • Brining and smoking meat
  • Preparing modern and classic sauces including bordelaise, fruit Chutney, molé, and pan sauces
  • Selecting meat and determining meat doneness
  • Preparing beef wellington
  • Meat cookery including braising, sautéing, roasting, grilling and frying
  • Working with game birds such as squab and quail
Day Three-Vegetables and Grains:
  • Working with lentils, farro, millet and masa harina
  • Preparing and steaming homemade tamales
  • Making grain and vegetable-based salads
  • Preparing vinaigrette and infused oils
  • Working with dark leafy greens
Day Four-Fish, Shellfish and Sauces:
  • Preparing modern and classic sauces including sauce vert, remoulade, béarnaise, coconut curry sauce, pesto, tapenade and rouille
  • Selecting fish and shellfish and determining doneness
  • Curing and smoking fish
  • Roasting a whole fish
  • Fish and shellfish cookery including searing, roasting, poaching, sautéing and grilling
Day Five-Desserts:
  • Preparing cakes, custards, mousses and tarts
  • Caramelizing sugar to make brittle
  • Mixing and baking cake batter
  • Rolling out and blind baking pie dough
  • Frosting a cake
  • Preparing buttercream, meringue and ganache
  • Selecting chocolate
  • Piping techniques


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Refund Policy

A one-week notice is required for cancellation of any class. If you do not cancel by telephone at least 1 week in advance of your scheduled class, we will charge your credit card in full for the class. Please feel free to send a friend in your place if you cannot attend and it is within one week of the class as no refunds will be available. All classes also have a non-refundable, non-transferable 10% fee for the operational and administrative costs incurred by The Chopping Block. This service fee will not be refunded and cannot be transferred in the case of any cancellation.

Please note: all virtual class sales are final. All virtual students will receive a recording of the class within 48 hours of the class.

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