CourseHorse offers a wide range of cooking and meal prep team events that will give your teams (of up to 250 people) an opportunity to learn new skills in a low-stakes, easy-to-follow environment. These courses are all great opportunities for your team to come together and learn from CourseHorse’s professional instructors in an easy-to-follow, beginner-friendly environment. No need to worry about complex equipment, long recipe lists or multistage, multicourse meals, these courses are all a great fit for teams looking for an easy, stress-free opportunity to learn some cooking skills while becoming closer to one another.
Benefits of Online Cooking Classes for Virtual Teams
While learning how to cook may not seem like an obvious team-building activity, it is one of the most popular and effective group learning activities. Learning how to cook, particularly in a low-stress environment, is a very practical and effective way for teams of any size to learn new skills and bond with each other during a team-building exercise.
The most obvious reason to select a cooking class for your team is that it will teach them a useful, practical skill they will enjoy learning. They can take these skills with them into their home kitchens, which will be convenient since that is where they will be learning the skills in the first place. In addition, since these classes are all easy to follow and good for beginners, attendees won’t have to worry about falling behind or needing a lot of advanced cooking knowledge to replicate these skills outside of the virtual class. This will increase engagement and help your team dedicate more time and energy to following along with the lessons and staying on top of the course. This will help ensure that the course is a success and your team feels as if they have gained something out of their time in the course.
In addition, learning to cook is a good team bonding activity because it is a low-stress, even relaxing way to learn new skills that are nevertheless practical in everyday life. Since these courses are designed to be easy to follow and beginner-friendly, attendees can be assured that they won’t become lost or overwhelmed trying to keep up with the lessons. This will ensure that the course is a fun, team-bonding activity rather than a stressful lesson in the intricate art of cooking. These classes will help keep your team engaged and involved in the process while avoiding creating a stressful working environment.
Finally, these courses are a good way for teams of workers to come together and have a pleasant evening learning a new skill together. Even over an online application, workers will be able to see their teammates and talk with them as they work on cooking and baking a wide variety of different potential meals. Learning new skills together can give workers a set of shared experiences that they can use to bond with each other, and it can be a good way for workers to get to know their colleagues outside of the space of work, which can have significant long-term benefits to team cohesion and efficiency. This kind of low-stakes, beginner-friendly training course can be ideal for team bonding since these classes let attendees pay attention to themselves and their colleagues without worrying about falling behind and being unable to complete their recipes.
Top Easy-to-Follow Online Cooking Classes for Virtual Teams
Virtual Pizza from Scratch (Materials Included)
There are very few foods more beloved and versatile than pizza, which has so many regional and cultural variations that you can spend your life learning all of the intricate arts of preparing pizza. However, at its core, making and rolling the dough is fairly straightforward and easy to learn, making this an ideal skill for aspiring master chefs and amateur home cooks alike. In this class, attendees will learn the process of preparing and rolling pizza dough, adding toppings and baking the pizza (in a conventional oven, no special equipment is needed for this course). All your team members enrolled in this course will have the necessary ingredients shipped directly to their homes, including yeast, olive oil, crushed tomatoes and all-purpose flour. Coursehorse can even accommodate dietary restrictions for individuals, including offering supplies for making gluten-free pizza. Since this course teaches attendees how to make a fairly basic cheese and meat pizza, there is a lot of room for experimentation and improvement once they have the basics down. Plus, attendees will end the class with a freshly baked pizza, so they will almost certainly be in a good mood once the course ends.
Virtual Cookie Workshop
There are few foods that are as versatile and simple as cookies, and many people have fond memories of making and eating cookies at some point in their lives. This makes a Virtual Cookie Workshop a great team-building activity since you can generally rest assured knowing that cookies will be a popular, simple baked treat for your team to learn to prepare. This course will teach attendees to make two accessible, crowd-pleasing cookies: chocolate chip cookies and lemon snaps. These are both easy first cookies to start baking; once you’ve become comfortable with them, you can move on to more advanced cookie baking and dessert preparation techniques. Coursehorse will ensure that everything is ready for attendees by shipping them all the ingredients they need to start their baking, including sugar, flour, salt and a gift card to purchase perishable items, like butter, eggs and lemons. Attendees can substitute various ingredients to prepare vegan or gluten-free cookies, making this an ideal program for large teams looking to find something they can all cook together. Once the session is over, team members will have two dozen freshly baked cookies to share, and they will have the knowledge of basic baking skills that they can utilize in other dessert-related projects.
Guacamole and Margaritas Workshop
If you are interested in providing your team with a light-hearted, beginner-friendly cooking course, consider signing up for CourseHorse’s Guacamole and Margarita Workshop. In this course, attendees will learn how to prepare a seasonable side dish and a refreshing alcoholic beverage that are perfect for lounging around and enjoying a beautiful afternoon. Attendees will learn how to make deliciously seasoned guacamole (to be paired with your preferred type of salted chip) and a classic margarita using equipment that CourseHorse will send to all of the participants. In addition to being supplied with the bartending equipment needed to prepare a margarita, participants will receive a gift card that they can use to purchase the tequila, orange liqueur, avocados, onions and limes that will be used to make the drink and the dip. This is a super accessible class that only lasts for 45 minutes, giving attendees a nice, practical lesson in drinking mixing and guacamole preparation and leaving them with time to enjoy their drinks and socialize over the virtual hosting platform. This is a great sociable team-building exercise; attendees tend to love learning how to mix a margarita and then enjoy it with freshly prepared dip.Â
Virtual Sushi Making Workshop (Materials Included)
Sushi making has become a popular hobby recently, and it is a great, beginner-friendly way to make elaborate and impressive meals without much time or effort. There aren’t a lot of steps involved in traditional sushi preparation, and once you have gotten the hang of properly cutting the fish and rolling the rice, it becomes very easy to swap ingredients in and out with ease. This course is a great introduction to sushi making because the lessons are fairly straightforward and cover much ground without being overwhelming or overly complicated. Participants will learn basic cutting, fileting and fish preparation techniques, how to prepare sushi rice, hand roll maki and plate sashimi. This course covers how to prepare spicy tuna and salmon rolls, but the advantage is that while attendees will receive a kit with all of the necessary materials (including rice and nori), they will have the freedom to purchase the ingredients they want to work with during the course, meaning that this can be a vegan course or a course that accounts for things like seafood allergies. By the end of the course, team members will have prepared a collection of rolls they start making at their own homes and will have learned the basic skills needed to experiment with more complex rolls.
Virtual Bubble Tea Making Workshop
If you want to give your team a chance to learn some unique food preparation skills in a fun and easy-to-understand course, consider the Virtual Bubble Tea Making Workshop. In this class, attendees will learn how to prepare three different boba-inspired classic recipes. In this workshop, attendees will make their own tapioca pearls, and they will learn about the rich cultural and culinary Taiwanese traditions that have brought Boba tea to the States and made it so popular. The instructor will demonstrate to attendees how to make two elaborate teas: a Layered Passion Fruit Jelly Tea (Decaf) and a Mint Taro Milk Tea (Decaf). Once participants have seen the process (and their tapioca pearls are ready to be added to their tea), they will prepare a Matcha Brown Sugar tea. Coursehorse makes the tea brewing process as easy as possible by sending all participants a box containing the ingredients they will need to make their tea (as well as a stainless steel straw to help them enjoy the tea as it is intended). By the end of this one-hour program, participants will not only have their own freshly prepared Boba tea ready to drink, they will also have the skills they need to start making more elaborate tea recipes in the future.