Junior Chefs

  • Cooking, Kids Baking
Blue Oak Middle School: 1455 Polk St, Napa, CA 94559, USA
Jun 24 2025
Jul 29 2025
Junior Chefs (Junior Chefs $30.00)
$200.00 $170.00

For 5 remaining sessions $170.00

  1. Tue3:00 - 4:30 pm

Description

Grades: 5th - 8th 

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Blue Oak School (1455 Polk St, Napa CA 94559)

Date: Tuesdays - 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29

Description:

Junior Chefs: Cooking with Confidence
Grades 5–8 | Taught by Chef Patrick Merkley

In this six-week class, students will build essential kitchen skills—from hygiene and safety to knife handling, meal prep, and baking. Whether you're a beginner or already love to cook, you’ll learn to confidently prepare at least one full meal for yourself or your family.

Topics include:

  • Kitchen safety, sanitation, and organization

  • Knife skills and basic first aid

  • Reading, scaling, and understanding recipes

  • Choosing and caring for cookware

  • Exploring proteins, plant-based meals, and baked goods

  • Planning, prepping, and plating a complete meal

Hosted in our new Middle School kitchen, this class is perfect for aspiring chefs ready to grow their skills and creativity in the kitchen.


 

 

 

Class dates

06/24/2025, 07/01/2025, 07/08/2025, 07/15/2025, 07/22/2025, 07/29/2025

Restrictions

Participants must currently be in grades 5 to 8.

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 8

Maximum: 15

Registration period

Registration starts on 06/02/2025 and ends on 07/29/2025.

In-person location

Blue Oak Middle School: 1455 Polk St, Napa, CA 94559, USA
Program is frozen.