10 Nov

Cooking Courses, are they worth it?

If you’re looking to learn to cook, or cook a little better, which we assume you are or you wouldn’t have been on this site, you must have considered, at some point, cooking courses / lessons. We have to ask ourselves, are they really worth it? I mean sure, you can learn a lot from a teacher and maybe have some fun at the same time, but, we must ask, is it really that much more beneficial having someone physically school you than simply picking up some recipes, ingredients and having a crack at it yourself? There are 1000’s of cookery and recipe resources online and 1000’s of recipe books in your local library or bookstore - we assume.

I guess you need to consider if you’re going to benefit that much more from cooking courses in your local school or university when compared to teaching yourself from a book or website. Personally, I think you’ll have more fun learning how to cook yourself as opposed to being schooled, lectured and most of the time spoken down to. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against teachers, but we had enough of that in school. We do we need to pay to be spoken down to! But with that said, the choice is yours. I think it is much more rewarding to teach / school yourself than have someone teach you, but that’s just my opinion!