FORGING COOKWARE WITH CHEF VALENTINE WARNER - 24-25th NOVEMBER

 FORGING TRADITIONAL COOKWARE - 2 DAY COURSE WITH VALENTINE WARNER

This course is a combination of blacksmith workshop and cookery school!

DAY 1 - POTS & PANS : You will learn the basic traditional blacksmithing skills , as well as how to forge stainless steel handles for both 11" and 8" Carbon steel frying pans, how to prepare the pan bases (seasoning) and how to rivet the components together.

DAY 2 - COOKERY SCHOOL : This will be hosted by our friend and talented chef Valentine Warner who will demonstrate a range of cooking skills along with use, care and maintenance of your cookware. Students will then get to cook alongside Valentine as they prepare a meal to enjoy at the end of the day.

CHEF VALENTINE WARNER - 

Whilst chef Valentine Warner is now well known for his popular BBC series What to Eat Now, he had been destined to a life of paintbrushes and blank canvas, having studied portrait painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art and enjoyed a 'reasonably successful' career as a painter. However, his career as a painter was short-lived when he decided to pursue his first love...food.

Valentine grew up on a farm in Dorset, learning to fish, shoot and cook from a young age, a childhood which no doubt served him well for his life in the professional kitchens of Alastair Little and others.

There are a wide variety of skills explored during this introductory course that include pan seasoning, forging, forming and riveting the different parts together - No previous experience required.

The goal of this course is that each participant will take home their own hand made cookware and to have learnt new and exciting cookery skills.

TIMES - Day 1 : 9am - 6pm Day 2 : 10am - 5pm

MEALS - A simple lunch will be provided on both days, as well as tea and coffee throughout the day.

CAMPING AND ACCOMMODATION - There is camping at COPPET HILL CAMPING (walking distance from the forge) or else plenty of local accommodation available.

LOCATION - The Forge, Broadoak, Dorset, DT6 5NW