Find free online cooking classes on 6 websites

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It’s always the perfect time to up your cooking game! By learning to cook more dishes you can save money, eat a healthier diet, and enjoy quality time with your family.

Whether your specialty is French cuisine or you do well to make a PB&J, you can bone up on the basics or snag some serious gourmet tips with these six free cooking sites.

Instructables

These are the classes for you if you’re a cooking newbie. With six total lessons ranging from information about cooking supplies, knife skills, pan-frying, sautéing, boiling, simmering, stewing, baking, and roasting these classes will get you started off on the right foot.

The Kitchn’s Cooking School

Kitchn also starts you out with the basics but offers 20 lessons in 20 days with the goal of becoming a better cook at home. Starting with knife skills on day one, you’ll advance to baking on day twenty.

America’s Test Kitchen

Although America’s Test Kitchen is only free during the 3-week trial period, you’ll have access to over 320 classes with engaging exercises and quizzes. From simple skills to advances recipes, this site is for everyone.

Tastemade

Interested in broadening your cooking skills to worldwide cuisine? Tastemade brings you classes on the art of cooking from around the world as well as specialty cocktails and fancy party dishes.

Dinner Tonight

Brought to you by Texas A&M’s Agrilife Extension, this site helps you figure out healthy eating and cooking that quick and easy. It also focuses on meal planning. This is a fantastic site for busy people trying to juggle a healthy lifestyle with the demands of daily life.

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Delia Online Cookery School

Delia Online offers step-by-step instructions for chefs of all levels. Learn how to cook shellfish, prepare sauces, make caramel, and even make preserves. Learn how to cook perfect rice and pasta. Get recipes for holidays, too.