Advanced Cooking Over Fire
Designed for those who have a little experience with cooking over fire, keen to expand their skills and master new fire cooking techniques.
Join us in our Woodland Kitchen to learn how to tame the fire and create delicious meals, in a relaxed and informative environment beneath the trees.
On this course, we will be expanding on your fire cookery knowledge, building on the skills you may have previously learnt from our Seasonal Cooking Over Fire course. This course is designed for those with some experience with cooking over fire, who are keen to expand their repertoire and learn to master a selection of new fire cookery techniques.
Join us in our private woodland glen on the Priory Farm Estate to expand your knowledge on the ancient skill of creating and cooking over an open fire.
At The Salt Box, each and every menu, supper or event is centred around the flames. Whether it’s cooking our food, warming our guests or simply providing light for us to work by, we are never far from a fire. With this course, we aim to restore this ancient skill and demonstrate how an outdoor feast tastes far better cooked over the flames.
Our food-filled adventure starts with a foraging walk up to our woodland glen, gathering a selection of wild ingredients on our way. We will give you tips on how to identify seasonal hedgerow edibles, introducing you to the tasty morsels that nature’s larder has to offer.
After a restorative cuppa, we will then turn our attention to the main business of the day; lighting our fires. You will learn to build, light and control your fire, which you’ll take responsibility for throughout the day. We will guide you in your wood selection and teach you to spark your flame by demonstrating multiple methods
Fires crackling and curiosity sparked, we will then introduce you to a medley of more advanced fire cookery methods, which may include asado, spit roasting, planking and coal baking.
The focus of all of our courses is showing you the incredible potential seasonal and local ingredients have in your outdoor kitchen, as well as how to incorporate new techniques into your everyday cooking.
Our courses are designed to be informative yet relaxed. For us, cooking over fire is not just about cooking a delicious meal, but spending time in the great outdoors.
Whether you’re flying solo or joining us with friends and family, all of our workshops are centred around enjoying the fruits of your labour throughout the day – expect to head home smelling of wood smoke, with plenty of food and fire in your bellies.
At the end of the day, we’ll send you home with our Fire Cookery Guide and Recipe Pack.
What's Included
- Freshly brewed tea, coffee and sweet treat on arrival
- 20 minute Foraging Walk
- Fire-lighting workshop, using natural tinder
- Wood selection and fire management
- Fire Cookery workshop, creating multiple dishes for you to enjoy on the day
- Digital recipe pack
- All ingredients and equipment will be provided
- Soft drink with your lunch
£175 pp (incl. VAT)
Learn on top of the range fire cookery equipment.
New for 2022, all of our fire cookery courses are taught on Country Fire Kitchen Hanging Frames – incredibly versatile with loads of scope for cooking over the flames.
We also feature a number of other great bits of kit, including ceramic charcoal grills (we use Big Green Egg), pizza ovens (we use Gozney Roccbox) and Kadai Fire Bowls.
SMALL GROUPS
Maximum 12 guests per course
HANDS-ON
LEARNING
Get stuck in and learn to cook 4-5 dishes
EXPERIENCED
TUTORS
Led by our Head Chef, Christian
SEASONAL
& LOCAL
Championing local, seasonal ingredients
Who is this course suitable for?
This course is designed for those with some experience with cooking over fire, who are keen to expand their repertoire and learn to master a selection of new fire cookery techniques.
Our menus are best suited for flexible, adventurous eaters, and isn’t suitable for vegetarians.
This course is suitable for guests aged 16+.
Upcoming Dates
Register your interest here for our Advanced Cookery Course, to be the first to hear about any new dates and tickets launched.
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About Us
Sustainably minded cooks dedicated to curating unique Feasts Over Fire and Cookery Workshops
The Salt Box is a celebration of seasonal food and open-fire cookery through the coming together of people beneath the trees, creating delicious food from nature’s humble ingredients. We celebrate locally sourced and wild ingredients through our wide range of courses and dining events, in the great outdoors surrounded by crackling fires.
