Hands-on Knife Skills with Chef Bernard Janssen (Morning Session)

Note: This class is being offered twice, at 11 AM and again at 2 PM, on April 18.

Chef Bernard Janssen, Executive Chef and Culinary Program Director for ZWILLING J.A. Henckels, will introduce you to the fundamentals of good knife skills. He will discuss what knife to use for every task and share a variety of important knife tasks including: the circular/rocking motion, dicing an onion, how to supreme an orange, mincing herbs, and filleting fish.

This knife skills workshop will be a departure from some of the knife skills classes we’ve had in the past. No food will be cooked and no meal or tasting offered. Instead, the focus of this class will be entirely on technique. With a bit of practice of what you will learn in this class, your daily food preparation will become more of a pleasure rather than a chore. Chef Bernard will also share what makes a quality knife, discuss maintenance, sharpening, cleaning and storing of your knives. Each student will receive a Zwilling paring knife to take home.

This hands-on workshop limited to ten people.

About Chef Bernard Janssen:

Originally from the Netherlands, Bernard Janssen brings a truly international flavor to every cooking task he approaches. As the Executive Chef and Culinary Program Manager for ZWILLING J.A. Henckels, Bernard launched the first ZWILLING Cooking Studio in the United States in 2015 at the company headquarters in Pleasantville, New York. The Cooking Studio offers hands-on cooking classes, as well as engaging corporate or private events.

Bernard has over twenty-five years of culinary experience working as an Executive Chef in restaurants and cooking schools worldwide. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe hosting trainings and demos for the Zwilling Group. Through this experience, Bernard has become a preeminent authority on kitchen knife skills as well as best practices in culinary education.

Bernard’s cooking style is marked by inventive flavor combinations and beautiful plating presentations. Drawing on his years of expertise, he writes original recipes for ZWILLING cooking classes as well as for retail partners. Bernard also travels across the country to conduct product trainings, demos at trade shows, and retail and cooking events supporting all the premium brands under the ZWILLING J.A. Henckels umbrella including Staub, Demeyere, Miyabi, and Ballarini. Bernard lives in New York with his family along the majestic Hudson River.

Cancellation policy: We do not offer refunds on purchased tickets.

Cooking class attendees receive 10% discount on kitchenware and cookbook purchases on class day.

HGS Home Chef is a member of TheWorkshopExperience.org, a group of friends who produce exceptional experiential learning through classes and workshops on a wide variety of topics in and around Hillsdale, NY - at the crossroads of the Hudson Valley and Berkshires.