Cookery for men adult learning courses

About this subject

Man cooking

Make your own delicious meals and impress your family and friends with your cuisine! This course is ideal for men who want to learn the basics or build on their knowledge.

On each course you will learn a range of basic cooking and kitchen safety skills, enabling you to produce tasty and healthy dishes from scratch, and to use and adapt recipes with confidence at home.

Our courses run over a period of weeks for a term. We have three terms in the year from September to July plus short courses at the start of summer.

Enrolments open each term in March, July and November. If courses have already started you may still be able to join so please contact us.

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Course levels and information

We run workshops for all abilities, and each week you will will develop your confidence in a variety of cooking skills, so that you can recognise ingredients that work together and to master the use of kitchen equipment, including knife handling.

You will need to bring your own and tea-towels.

All learners must complete a learner cookery checklist and submit it before the first class.

Cookery for Men courses


Fees and discounts

We have many discounts and fee support options. These include money off your first course if you are a library member, Surrey Heritage user, or over 66.

Please note: The course fees do not include the cost of ingredients, and you are responsible for supplying your own ingredients for the lesson. You will receive an email before the start of the course, informing you of the ingredients and equipment you will need to bring with you.


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