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Catalyst Kitchens Online Cooking School

Catalyst Kitchens is the initiative of FareStart established to help design, launch, sustain,
and grow foodservice job training social enterprises across North America.

Catalyst Kitchens utilizes FareStart’s expertise and the best practices found in the CK Network to help member programs
and clients operate strong, effective programs that train individuals into employment in the foodservice industry.

Your membership will give you access to a variety of classes from knife skills to plant-based cooking.
So dive in, learn something new, be mindful, eat exciting foods, and nourish yourself.

Online Course Highlights

Culinary Foundations Level 1
  • Foundational cook training with focus on fundamentals

  • 10 Units, 25 lessons and 160 learning tasks

  • Over 80 instructional videos

  • Over 75 recipes that reinforce key techniques and concepts

Culinary Foundations Level 2
  • 16 Units, 45 lessons and over 230 learning tasks

  • Over 100 instructional videos

  • Over 100 recipes that reinforce key techniques

  • Engaging learning activities and assignments

Seafood Literacy
  • Seafood sourcing from sea to table

  • Foundational techniques and knowledge needed to include more sustainable seafood on the menu.

  • Seafood quality analysis, handling and fabrication

  • Adapt common culinary techniques to seafood cookery

Plant-Based Foundations
  • Foundational plant-based cooking techniques

  • Focus on the application of core techniques in the plant-based kitchen

  • Instruction in plant-based culinary arts

Waste Not
  • Provides technical and creative approaches to food waste

  • Examines the need to reduce food loss along the entire supply chain

Introduction to Baking & Pastry
  • 40 Hours | 20 units | 200+ tasks

  • More than 100 high-definition instructional videos

  • Recognized by the American Culinary Federation Education Foundation as an approved program

  • 100% online & self-paced

  • Certificate of completion

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Rouxbe Culinary School

  • Founded in 2005
  • 890,400 Students
  • 180 Countries
  • 630 High Schools
  • 17 Languages
Learning Path You Can Trust

Rouxbe courses offer an instructor-guided path that is completed entirely online, at your own pace. Whether you are looking to learn new cooking techniques, increase your confidence, expand your repertoire, or change your health, Rouxbe's learning path will help you reach your goals.

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Instructional Videos

Our learning videos are close-up featuring the cooking technique instruction you need to be successful in the kitchen. Our content includes a variety of video types such as technique focused lessons, step-by-step video recipes, and instructional videos on other topics.

Interactive Learning

Students will watch video, read text, interact with visual learning assignments, upload and share photos, interact with the learning community, submit instructor-graded assignments, attend live events with Rouxbe instructors, and even complete fun interactive quizzes.

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