Our Online Courses
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€750,0010 Day Foundation Course
Kick start your cookery journey with our intensive Foundation Course. This is a serious alternative to attending a live course for those who are keen to cook for a living or live for their cooking. Group discounts available for 2 or more students.
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€500,0010 Day Foundation Course - Lite
Kick start your cookery journey with our intensive Foundation Course. This self guided course covers the same content as our Full Foundation Course but is for those that don't require feedback on their cooking or access to the online community.
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€100,00That Uni Course
From zero to hero! This self guided course will give you the basic skills to feed yourself once you have flown the nest. Impress your fellow housemates, prospective girl/boyfriends, your mother and even yourself with your new skills!
Wondering what you will cook on our 10 Day Foundation Course?
About Us
The YSE Cookery School has a long history with cooking and teaching. The emphasis has always been on real food, cooked from scratch and using real ingredients... no shortcuts!
Although only officially formed under today's name in 2016, head teacher Murray Slinn has over twenty years experience in the catering arena.
New Zealand born and raised, he started his cooking career at the age of 17 and quickly moved to his first head chef position in Christchurch just before his 20th birthday.
In 2002, as the playground in New Zealand became too small, he made the move to Europe where his career progressed through a range of different roles within the hospitality industry.
From 2006-2011 he worked at the reputable Cookery at the Grange cookery school in Frome, UK, both as the head tutor for the school and setting up a new restaurant on site.
Following the Grange, he spent several years freelancing in many sectors of the industry, covering everything from small private cruise lines and private yachts to boutique hotels, private villas and chalets, catering for super models, Hollywood actors and celebrity chefs.
In 2016 he took on the role as head chef for YSE Ski's pre-winterseason cookery course and currently, along with running the companies 45 bed hotel, he assures the quality of all meals across the companies 19 fully catered chalets.
2016 also marks the year of the first YSE Cookery School live course in Val d'Isère, taking students from very basic cooking skills to a level that has allowed them to start a career in the industry. With only a short 2 month summer season to run the courses, he decided in 2018 to turn his efforts towards an online version of the school to make the courses more accessible to anyone wishing to learn to cook, and in May 2020 these courses were launched.