"I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it."

– Todd English

One-on-One Chef Instruction Overview

A Posto Personal Chef Services LLC offers a One-on-One Instruction Service as a way for you to increase your individual culinary skills within the private setting of your own kitchen. This service is similar to our Cooking Classes but taught in private sessions with one of our personal chefs. Some of our home chef clients prefer this approach as a way to make better use of their time by not having to travel to a public place for cooking lessons.

Our One-on-One Instruction can focus on teaching basic cooking skills and techniques or can be expanded to focus on more advanced topics like learning local seafood preparation, or how to make homemade pasta or artisanal pizza, or the techniques of creating an awesome salad. Our program delivers culinary training based on your schedule and allows for developing a personal relationship with our company’s chefs who reside here on the Oregon Coast.

With the seasonal aspects of our local ingredients, you can elect to use this service on a more regular basis. We can share with you the food ingredients that are coming into season and how you can take advantage of their nutritional value while at their peak flavor. We can assist you in planning a holiday party or a special occasion celebration. Having the support of a personal chef can provide you with the confidence to make your event a tremendous success.

Also, this service is ideal for people supporting the needs of a special diet. Our personalized training can focus on preparing healthy foods that compliment the requirements of the special diet and still can be enjoyed by the whole family. In other cases, you may desire to learn a new international or ethnic cuisine using our extensive recipe library supported by our on-site chef instruction. And for those aspiring in-home cooks or newlyweds, you can use this service to hire our personal chefs to analyze and recommend changes to your current kitchen and pantry set-ups.

Benefits and Pricing

One-on-One Instruction: 1 to 3 hours of individual chef instruction delivered in your home kitchen that teaches you a recipe, basic cooking skills or other culinary techniques, local food and wine information, or how to organize your kitchen or pantry for better use. The recipes used include the written food preparation details and any background information on the topic. Also, group cooking classes can be arranged with you and your friends on any of these class topics:

Basic Cooking Skills
Holiday Planning
Pizza Making
Pasta Making
Pantry Cooking
Easy Italian
Easy Seafood
How to Make a Delicious Soup or Stew from Scratch
How to Make an Awesome Salad
What to Do With Vegetables
What healthy cooking recipes will support my special diet?
What is….? (Specialized Ethnic Cuisine)
Wine tasting/pairing
Custom Class Design

You are a perfect fit for our One-on-One Instruction Service if you:

want to learn a new cooking skill, technique, or cuisine
want to leanr to prepare meals in support of a healthy lifestyle or dietary requirement
want to take cooking classes in a private versus public or group setting
want to organize your kitchen or pantry for better use and efficiency
want to learn to use a special appliance, utensil, or tool

One-on-One Instruction Benefits:

With Personal One-on-One Instruction	Without Personal One-on-One Instruction
Learn new techniques, methods, and recipes in the privacy of your home with a personal chef	Read magazines or watch cooking shows on TV and try to recreate the technique, method, or recipe alone
Enjoy learning the background on the technique, method, or recipe from the personal chef	Read an overview in a magazine or listen to a snippet on TV but never fully understand how or why something is done
Have fun making and eating foods from scratch while working with the personal chef	Make food from magazine article or from watching a cooking show. There is no interaction and no feedback on how the dish tastes
Learn to optimize the kitchen and/or pantry and stock with the right tools and/or ingredients	Never have the right tools or ingredients on hand when preparing a new recipe. Ingredients get lost in cupboards or become too old for use due to lack or organization and inventory control

Summary Pricing for One-on-One Instruction Services:

$35.00 per hour plus groceries and pantry items for short-term training.

A customized program and pricing can be developed for long-term training.

Our proposal will cover professional chef service fees involved plus an estimate of any special grocery expenses, pantry fees and/or container fees. Any alcohol including wine and beer are to be purchased separately by the client unless previous arrangements are made in advance.

Click here for scheduled cookng classes at various locations in Lincoln County.

To order this service or request additional information, please contact Pati D’Eliseo at 971-506-6695 or Bruce Birt at 541-270-5387 or email us at chef@apostochefs.com.