Rouxbe

Learn culinary tips and tricks without having to enroll in a snazzy cooking school! Thanks to an innovative online treasure, you can become a better home chef. Rouxbe (pronouced “roo-bee”) is an online video cooking school dishing up “how to” high definition video lessons helping home cooks learn the same techniques and skills one would learn in a professional cooking school.

Who they are

Rouxbe Online Cooking School is made up of professional cooking school instructors, instructional designers, leading experts in the field of digital media capture/deployment, as well as a team of highly-successful Internet entrepreneurs and advisors that are passionate about building the best instructional cooking site on the web.

How it works

From the comfort of home, the home chef is able to access a variety of 8- to 15-minute bite-sized professional cooking lessons that are shown in high definition video. Along with every lesson, you will be able to find a recipe that uses the techiniques you just learned and, in turn, you can integrate them into your weekly meal plan. The entire Rouxbe experience mirrors an actual culinary curriculum, complete with instructional cooking video lessons, practice video recipes, culinary chef exercises, progress reporting, cooking quizzes, and personal chef support. The site is very user friendly and you really do feel like you are attending cooking school without the hassle of having to leave your own kitchen.

Why you'll love it

Home cooks are motivated to be better cooks. Rouxbe is a complement, not competitor, to other cooking and recipe resources. If you have a favourite cookbook, culinary magazine, television food program or other online food site, they encourage you to continue to use them but come to Rouxbe to learn cooking techniques and skills that allow you to tackle any recipe, from any resource, with confidence.

How to sign up

Rouxbe offers one of a few select free sample lessons each day and all of their instructional video recipes, text recipes, tip and technique videos and community forums are free. You don’t even have to sign up to learn a great deal on Rouxbe. But we encourage you to do so, you won’t regret it.

Want more? If you do want full access, you can invest in a paid Rouxbe Online Cooking School Premium Membership that is a fraction of the cost of any local cooking school or recreational cooking program. For the cost of a single fancy dinner out, you can attend a professional cooking school at home for an entire year, complete with personal chef support. Payment options are monthly ($15), annual ($99) or lifetime ($199) for enrollment. For all premium memberships sold, Rouxbe contributes 10% to Rouxbe for Life to help feed children in developing countries that suffer from chronic hunger.

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