Intermediate BBQ Class

Designed for confident home cooks and guests who have completed our Foundation BBQ Class, this four-hour hands-on class develops the skills needed to manage more ambitious live-fire cooking.

Rather than concentrating on individual recipes, the focus is on managing a complete cook: using different heat zones, cooking several dishes at once, planning timings, working with smoke and fuel, and balancing flavours across a menu.

Working in small groups alongside our Pitmasters, you’ll prepare and cook a range of dishes while learning techniques that can be applied to your own barbecue at home.

Is This Class Right for Me?

This class is designed for people who already have a basic understanding of charcoal barbecue.

It’s particularly suitable if you:

• Have attended our Foundation BBQ Class
• Regularly cook on a charcoal or wood-fired barbecue
• Own a kettle BBQ, kamado or smoker
• Are comfortable lighting and controlling your barbecue
• Want to develop your fire management and live-fire cooking techniques
• Want to become better at cooking several dishes and having them ready at the same time

You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be comfortable with the basics of lighting a barbecue and controlling its temperature.

If you’re completely new to charcoal cooking, we recommend starting with our Foundation BBQ Class.

A More Advanced Approach to BBQ

Cooking one dish well is one thing. Managing several dishes, cooking at different temperatures and getting everything to the table at the right time requires a different approach.

That’s the focus of this class.

You’ll work with multiple cooking methods and heat zones while preparing different elements of a complete BBQ menu.

We’ll look at how to organise a cook, what needs to happen when, and how to make adjustments when the fire or food doesn’t behave exactly as planned.