Masterclass of Flavour with Mat Blak
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- 5 hr
- Cooking Skills
- Masterclass
- Meet & Greet
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The full experience
Join New Zealand-born chef and live-fire cook Matt Burgess, known throughout the UK BBQ scene as Matblak, for a hands-on masterclass in building flavour over fire.
Throughout the class, you’ll prepare and cook a selection of seasonal dishes alongside Matt, working with direct heat, embers and smoke to understand how different temperatures and techniques change the flavour and texture of food.
But this class goes beyond simply following recipes. Matt will teach you how to taste as you cook, using sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami to understand what a dish needs and how to adjust it. You’ll learn how seasoning, acidity, smoke, heat and texture can be used together to build balanced, flavoursome food.
Drawing on more than three decades in professional kitchens, as well as his New Zealand and Māori heritage, Matt will share the techniques and thinking behind his own approach to live-fire cooking.
The menu will change with the seasons and the best produce available, giving Matt the freedom to cook the food at its best rather than work to a fixed set of recipes.
Most importantly, you’ll be cooking, not watching. You’ll work alongside Matt throughout the class, taste dishes as they develop and learn techniques you can take back to your own cooking.
Once the fires have done their work, we’ll sit down together and enjoy the food you’ve prepared.
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