Knife Skills Lesson & BBQ Side

Knife Skills Lesson & BBQ Side

Got Game, Hipcooks?

How are those quarantine knife skills? Do you know the best way to hone and sharpen your knife? What is the best knife to use? How about what surface to cut on? Let’s get your knifing game tight, AND make a super-delicious dish while we’re at it. Get those Skillz looking life a Pro-Chef!

Let’s make a Great Salad for a BBQ!

Let’s have a comprehensive Online Knife Skills Lesson, and then make a delicious dish with what we’ve chopped! I’m thinking we enjoy these wonderful activities to celebrate the day:

Sharpen your Kitchen knife with us! (We’ll teach you how if you have a homing or sharpening steel)
Let’s Knife with Gusto! (Hipcooks will take you through a Knife Skill lesson)
We’ll make a super-delicious, crowd-pleasing side dish, which goes great with whatever you throw on the Grill
Crack open a Beer (optional, after the knifing)

Here’s what to have on hand for the Class:

For the Salad:

• approximately 2 pounds  of tri-colored potatoes (Tjs carries these in 1.75-pound bags, Costco carries them as well), or 2 pounds (ish) red bliss or fingerling potatoes
• a pound of fresh green beans, or a bag of frozen haricots verts
• ½ cup of pine nuts
• about a cup’s worth of basil, or at least 6 or so basil sprigs
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled
• staples: olive oil, salt and pepper
• a beer to cheers with, optional

Equipment Check-List for the Knife Skills Lesson:

• for the Online Knife Skills Lesson portion: a kitchen knife (ideally an 8-inch French chef knife or Santoku), but let’s work with what you’ve got!
• a honing or sharpening steel, if you have one
• a wooden cutting board on a stable surface
• and, also: a large pot of salted water, set to a boil, and a colander in the sink

Virtual cooking classes at Hipcooks

Join us for this online cooking class on zoom, or get your own group together for a lively Livestream: Coworkers & clients, Friends & family, and kids for a Private virtual cooking class. We’ll work with you to book a date and time that work for you. More info on our Private virtual cooking classes here.

All classes are based on recipes with no more than a handful of easy-to-find ingredients. If you don’t have exactly what’s needed, don’t worry: we teach adaptable skills. We’ll send your group ingredients & tools checklists before your class, and recipes afterward. These classes are delightful — join us!