Cooking Class - Artisan Pizza 101

Chef Karen was so fun and informative during our pizza making class. She brought joy into the kitchen and was very patient in guiding four people working on four separate tasks all at once. The three sauces we made from scratch were delicious and all worked so well together.

Chef Karen was awesome and taught me how to make a killer red gravy and Alfredo grave too!

Karen was fantastic. She has great energy and made this experience amazingly fun. She showed up prepared and let us know what to have ready when she arrived. Best part, getting to eat the food at the end. Additionally, she let us know where she got most of her ingredients so we can give this a go on another day.

Chef Karen was fantastic all around. Learned many tips and tricks in this pizza making class. Chef Karan has a great aura and makes the class very entertaining. Would definitely try again!

Chef Karen was terrific! A++++++

Chef Karen was wonderful. She was on time. Communication leading up to the experience was great. Also, her instruction during the experience was easy to understand and execute. Her personality is so great it made the cooking experience so much more fun! Her energy and love for cooking felt like it flowed from her to us and made the cooking experience so much better. Of course, the pizza was awesome and tasted so good. We learned a lot from her teachings! Thank you Chef Karen!

Fun evening with Chef Karen. Our experience was terrific including three young college students who are ready to take some new recipes back to school. Chef Karen provided great ingredients, energy and a very interactive experience. Highly recommend.

Our group requested deep dish pizza. As far as I know, deep dish does not have dough on top of the pizza. Chef said it's her first time making that. Description of class: "In this hands-on cooking class, Chef Karen will first guide you in kneading fresh dough before baking it to crispy perfection." Completely false. She brought dough that was premade from Winco! Class felt rushed too. She was out in two hours.

Purchased dough? Outdated canned products? That is not the experience I paid for

We took the Artisan Pizza 101 recently. I normally do not write LONG reviews. Pros: We got to get together with our friends and socialize a bit. Cons: -The chef asked to come a ½ hour early, which I assumed was to setup and make sure everything was ready for noon when our guests arrived. But no, I started chopping fruits and vegetables right away. -The chef forgot parsley for the pesto. She was going to go to the store to get it, but she already had marinara cooking on the cooktop. So, we called our friends to pick up 3 heads of parsley on their way to our home. The chef did not reimburse them. -My husband said he heard the chef barking orders at me to chop this and do that. Maybe that is OK in a restaurant kitchen, but not in our home. Please and thank you would be nice. -When my spouse was putting the cans of tomatoes and tomato sauce in the marinara, he noticed the cans were expired from 2020! -The course was advertised as making your own dough, kneading it and resting it which is one of the reasons we took the course. The chef brought PREMADE pizza dough from Winco! -We all chopped the fruits and veggies and did tasks the chef told us to do. She made the marinara, alfredo sauce and showed my spouse how to make the pesto. When I asked about this the chef said the recipes and how to make it, she said the recipes are online. I took the class to learn, not chop vegetables and fruits so she could make it and not teach us how to do it. -The class was supposed to be 3 hours long and the chef was out the door in 2. The class seemed rushed like the chef had somewhere else to be. Maybe the chef needed to get to her 6PM class in the Bay area of San Francisco. If the class were 3 hours and better organized, the chef could have taught us how to make, kneed and rest pizza dough properly and taught us how to MAKE the marinara, alfredo sauce and pest9. The class had absolutely no instruction. -I took the class to learn and learned nothing. I can roll out premade pizza dough, chop toppings and assemble a pizza. I do it at least once a month. We wanted instruction on how to make the components, not chop stuff and give it to her to make and had no idea how the chef made it. -When we have had other chefs come to the house for $100 per person, they come early and set up, cook everything, and educate us, and clean up the kitchen immaculately. The chef essentially told us to eat our pizza and start cleaning up and she was out the door shortly after. The kitchen was a total mess and took quite a while to clean up.