Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School

 For more information, or to book:

(076) 236-2345 cilla@wickedfood.co.za

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Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School is the ideal venue for exclusive end-of-year food related functions. For over 25 years Wickedfood Cooking School has been tailor-making food-related functions and corporate team building events for our clients, with an emphasis on cooking class programmes that work seamlessly to ensure maximum enjoyment for all participants. While at Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School you have exclusive use of our facility, ensuring privacy and the full attention of our trained staff. Due to the nature of our hands-on cooking classes, participants never feel threatened or moved outside their comfort zone.

Cooking classes are a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to socialise – Click here to see how much fun these classes are. For corporate groups these cooking classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients. At the cooking school we also have a retail section where we have many handmade food products, made by our trainees from farm-grown fruit and vegetables, and Wickedfood aprons available as corporate gifts and prizes.

End-of-year Group Menu Ideas

Apart form our popular Food-Of-The-World menu Wickedfood Earth Country Cooking School has developed 2 exciting and very different end-of-year cooking class options exclusively for groups . Once all the food is cooked, participants are able to sit down and enjoy the food prepared, a great way for staff interaction. Book early to avoid disappointment, as dates towards the end of the year are already filling up fast. (Subject to our general terms and conditions.)

Foods of the World

These have, over the years, been our flagship set of corporate cooking classes. Spend a relaxed half-day exploring global cuisines – from Italian and French country cooking to Thai, Indian, Lebanese and African flavours, and many more.

  • Groups: 8–40 participants;
  • Duration: 4 to 5 hours;
  • Halaal-friendly options available.

“This team-build will be remembered and talked about for a while.” — Erica

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Sustainable Pork cooking workshops

Wickedfood Earth farm is primely a pig farm, with all our animals being veld-raised, and completely free-range. We use no routine antibiotics and growth hormones or stimulants. Our animals take, on average, twice as long to reach maturity as factory-farmed animals. We have become synonymous with whole roasted pig, supplying around 50 each year to Christmas dinner tables across the country. We are now offering a similar option to our corporate clients, but cooking it with us at the Cooking School. As a past happy client put it:

“…. What a feast, such fabulous REAL food is a rare treat! I admire and respect your ethics about sustainability, care for the environment, and most of all the kindness and true respect for your animals. Quite simply, one tastes the respect and happiness!! Thank you – a memorable feast. The pork was sublime…..”

We have a selection or menu options that cater from 8 to 40 participants. This is an interactive food experience where you discover our soil-to-plate philosophy to food. First our resident chef takes you for a tour of the gardens, talking about growing and using different vegetables, sustainable farming, and food production of factory versus sustainable farming. Then after a mid-morning break to taste some of the unique sustainable products made on the farm, from a basket of the freshest seasonal produce, together we develop and cook a  6 dish banquet. Menus include:

  • Oven roasted whole pig – where we’ll walk the group through the whole cooking process from preparation, to roasting and carving, and enjoying the pork at the end of the workshop;
  • Roast Pig Chinese Style – roasted pig is a renowned traditional Chinese delicacy. The traditional way to serve it is first to slice off the crispy skin, together with some of the meat and serve together with plum sauce, spring onion and cucumber wrapped in thin pancakes. Next the remaining meat is cut up and served as a second course in a stir-fry, including noodles;
  • Pork mixed grill – we walk you through how to cook a selection of different pork cuts and seasonal vegetables on the braai.

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Budget End-of-Year Functions for larger groups

We’re acutely aware of budget constraints that many companies are experiencing at the moment. We have looked very closely at costings and developed a selection of fun, pared-down menus, with less cooking time (3 Hours) then our regular menus (4 to 5 hours). Each menu offers different combinations to match the theme for the day, and is Halaal Friendly. These menus have been specially developed for groups from 15 to 60 participants, made up as follows:

Starter – Soup or deep-fried finger snack;

Main – BBQ chicken flatties – with a selection of flavour profiles, 1 piece of chicken per person;

Starch – to match the theme for the day, either potatoes, pap, or rice;

Vegetable – either as a sauce for the starch, a salad or stir-fry of seasonal vegetables grown on the farm or from local farmers.

Dessert – A baked pudding featuring the fruit grown on the farm, with farm-made yoghurt cream.

To receive more information please Click Here. The structure of our corporate and Team Building cooking classes

Half day programme

Our cooking classes run from 3 to 6 hours dependant on the menu choice, which gives plenty of kitchen time as well as enough time after the cooking for a leisurely meal. We have found that the following format is the most successful:

  • 9:30 to 10:00 – Arrive. Tea and coffee (snack platters can be arranged at an additional cost, contact booking office for pricing);
  • 10:00 – Cooking starts:
    • Introduction to Wickedfood Earth and our gardens;
    • Overview of the menu to be cooked;
    • Preparation and cooking.
  • ±12:30 – sit down and enjoy the meal that you have prepared together (as we are not licensed, you are welcome to bring your own wine, beers and ciders and ice, to enjoy with the meal);
  • 14:00 – depart.

Full day programme

You are also welcome to hire the facilities to do a presentation, training, networking etc. after a cooking class (or prior to). You would then have the use of the facilities for up to 8 hours, from 8:30 to 16:30, starting at R950pp, which would include the Informal festive chicken banquet cooking class Apart from the cooking class you are also welcome to use:

  • The outside covered verandah which can seat up to 40;
  • A separate meeting room seating up to 40 people theatre style or 15 people around tables;
  • Outside breakaway areas;
  • Our glasses and drinks baths – we are not licensed, and you are welcome to bring your own beers, wines and soft drinks, and ice.

Should you wish to do a function in the morning, prior to the cooking class, we are able to offer a variety of snack/light meal options, before the group starts cooking – contact the booking office for details.

 For more information, or to book:

(076) 236-2345 cilla@wickedfood.co.za