BIG GREEN EGG PRIVATE COOKING CLASSES
Why not treat your family – or even some friends to a private day of BGE cooking. Perfect as a present or just to make you feel more confident with your own EGG.
These classes are now run by Julie, as Nic is concentrating on the group classes. Julie and Nic worked together at Big Green Egg and Julie has a background in professional catering.
You’ll spend the day together cooking a number of fantastic recipes which will help to boost your confidence and open your eyes to the EGG’s versatility.
The day starts at 9.30 and we will aim to finish at approximately 5.30. There will be plenty to eat so why not invite up to 5 friends to join you.
If you want a class with Nic, you’ll have to join one of the group classes.
Note: Julie runs her own business. Private classes are not delivered by Meat Smoke Fire, but Julie does use our recipes and techniques.
Suggested Course Content
Our suggested class content is as follows but of course, this can be tailored to your needs:
- Reverse Searing – Slow cooking a Picanha (Beef Rump Cap).
- Searing – Cooking steak two or three ways.
- Plank smoking – Hot smoking a salmon fillet on a wooden plank.
- Plancha cooking – Roasted rack of lamb and roasted cauliflower.
- Baking – Rosemary and Maldon Salt focaccia.
- Pan cooking – Apple or flat peach tarte tatin, or maybe smoked chocolate brownie.
The classes are designed to show you a few simple recipes that use the Egg in very different setups. You can then take what you have learned and adapt it to your own cooks.
Classes start at 10:00 am but we’ll arrive at 9:30 am to get everything set up. We normally bring a second smaller Egg so that we can do a little bit of multitasking. We aim to finish at around 5:30 pm but sometimes we can go on beyond this.
Once the course content has been agreed we will give you a full list of ingredients so that you can source them from your favourite shops. We also ask that you provide charcoal and parking.
The cost of the class starts at £600 which covers Julie’s time and some travel of up to 1 hour 30 minutes. An additional charge may be agreed for travel over 1 hour 30 minutes. Julie lives in Stockbridge, Hampshire.
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What a great day with Julie, Taking us through a variety of recipies in addition to fantastic food we learnt allot about how to cook with the Egg in a more efficient way as well as lots of hints and tips which we will definitely be using from now on! Really memorable experience and well worth every penny. Thank you Julie! . Absolutely fabulous day with Julie who was patient and fun in equal measure. Finally feel like I know how to control the temperature and use the egg with confidence! So much more useful than a demo day and the food was absolutely delicious! Thank you Julie We're so glad that you had an EGGcellent day with Julie, enjoyed great food and feel more confident to cook on your Egg. We could not have had a better or more enjoyable day. We cooked so many delicious things, and really learnt at last how to use our Egg properly. We feel really inspired now and are excited about using it far more than we have. We also laughed and chatted a lot, and just loved the whole experience, much of which was because Julie is such a lovely, easy and friendly person. Thank you so much Julie This is an essential day if you've invested in a Big Green Egg and want to enjoy the full potential of what they can add to your outdoor entertaining. What an absolutely phenomenal day we had with Julie last weekend! We genuinely couldn't have asked for more from Julie who made it a thoroughly enjoyable, fun and insightful day for ourselves and family who were there to sample the delights we made. Julie visited us in the cold and wet of November, but once the egg and food started coming that didn't make a difference at all. Julie is as brilliant at her craft as she brilliant company. Really focused on teaching us the techniques we had planned and more, while being more like a good friend than a tutor. Can't recommend her and the class enough. What an amazing day we had with Julie; my family and I loved learning so much about how to cook absolutely delicious food on a BGE. Julie was great fun and an inspiring teacher - don’t hesitate to book this in if you have the chance. We bought our first Big Green Egg recently, but knowing how to use it for different types of cooking was a bit daunting! My husband, 3 children and I had a really fun day with Julie and she made sure that everyone got involved with the food prep/cooking. We made/cooked loads and learnt lots along the way: salmon, chicken souvlaki, focaccia, baba ganoush, roasted cauliflower, paella, pizza, churros with chocolate sauce and also cooked a few shop bought burgers and sausages! I attended one of Julie’s classes on Fri 18 Aug 23. Well what can I say except AWESOME. It was worth every £ & the information & top tips were superb. The course was hands on & I have learnt so much. I highly recommend this course to anyone with BGE or anything similar. I cannot wait to get experimenting & will certainly be looking a private home class in the future. We adored our day with Julie learning how to make magic on a Having been a big green egg owner for over 10 years I probably thought I knew a lot about the egg possibilities having done most things including the Christmas turkey for the last few years but let me tell you Julie taught me more in one day than I have in previous 10 years. 5 Star! What’s fantastic day with Julie from start to finish. A full day on the Egg , no better way to spend on Sunday and the food, wow! Couldn’t recommend highly enough to anyone considering the cooking class. Just wanted to say a huge thank you for Friday. We all had such a wonderful day and ate the most amazing meat. Rupert cooked kebabs and veg on the big egg last night aswell and he loved it 🙌 as well as the food tasting amazing 😊 We just wanted to say thank you so much for your time teaching the course last week. We have learned so much, and most importantly got a great sense of what amazing dishes came be made with the Green Egg. Our friends who participated sent some wonderful feedback: “What a lovely day! Very educational!”, “Absolutely tremendous, all very worth it.”, “One of the best Mondays in a long while! - very enjoyable.” Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for yesterday, I certainly leant a lot and will definitely get more adventurous with the BGE as a result. Hi Julie. Thank you so much for a brilliant day on Wednesday. Murray loved it and learnt a lot. He has already been shopping on the website. He cooked the remaining rack perfectly for our friends in the evening and everybody enjoyed the creations from the day. Quick note to say thanks for yesterday. The team absolutely loved it and thought you were amazing. Huge success, helped by the weather too!
Julie is so knowledgeable and shares her expertise with such infectious enthusiasm its impossible to put into words what a wonderful day we had. As well as her vast range of simple yet delicious recipes for a full 3 course meal, you'll learn how to control your Egg so it works for you. The biggest lesson was that I can now spend time with our guests rather than being a slave to a conventional BBQ.
Our Aga took some time to adjust to, but we couldnt live without it now. Thanks to Julie the Egg has now become our "outdoor Aga" ! Thank you!
Although we've had our Egg for a year or so now, we learnt a huge amount throughout the day which will completely transform the way we use it going forward.
The food was absolutely delicious from start to finish, and Julie even managed to somehow turn my family of 'non-foodies' into enthusiasts by the end of the day which was a miracle in itself! .
I couldn't recommend this day with Julie anymore if I tried - thank you so much for making it such an amazing experience, and we hope to see you again soon! 🙂
Having Julie over to us for the day was not only great fun and educational, but she was also able to demonstrate what a brilliant and versatile piece of kit the BGE is! It has given us the confidence not only to cook the food we made with Julie again, but also to try new things (and impress our guests!). Thank you so much Julie! We hope to see you again x 😊.
Thank you Julie x
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Most excellent teacher.. My husband, it was his birthday present, now feels confident to start cooking on his egg having ignored it for a year, whereas my friend and I just enjoyed the delicious produce and wine. Thank you Julie.
Cannot recommend a private day more we had our adult children involved and could have fed half the street.
We had the most amazing day with Julie, we learnt so much about different method of cooking on the egg, different sauces, puddings and bread, meats etc.. such a fun day with the odd tipple of tequila and an impromptu game of cricket.
Can't recommend her enough x
Ed
When can we book another course to do more?!
Julie, your knowledge knows no bounds! We appreciated how you were able to walk us through all of the cooking processes and through the mechanics of the egg itself, teaching us how to best use it in the future. The dishes were delightful and cooked to perfection. To top it all off, your lovely warm personality has brought together the entire course so well and everyone had a fantastic time.
You had put together a really good menu to show off the techniques and the results were delicious. Everyone enjoyed their afternoon
Once again many thanks.
I'll make sure I'm working from home during Lucy's team day in August!
Thanks again