TIL the hard way that a $350 'gourmet' knife skills class at a culinary school in Chicago was just a guy showing us how to hold a chef's knife for 3 hours

Sam Baker · 2026-09-17T16:35:03.334045+00:00

I signed up because I wanted to move up from prep cook to the line at my restaurant, but the instructor spent 45 minutes talking about his own catering business and the only thing I learned was how to brunoise an onion, which I already knew how to do, so has anyone found a class that actually teaches real butchery or sauce work instead of just charging you to watch someone chop?

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