Cooking Classes in Nuriootpa

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Cultured Cheese School - cooking classes in the Barossa Valley

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Cultured Cheese School (Nuriootpa)5.0 (16)

From $180pp

Cheesemaker Erin Jones leads each workshop, drawing on two decades of commercial and artisan cheesemaking.

Maggie Beer's Farm Shop - cooking classes in the Barossa Valley

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Maggie Beer's Farm Shop (Nuriootpa)4.5 (2656)

A morning of cooking, tasting and a grazing lunch by the water makes Maggie Beer's Farm Shop a relaxed day out for food-loving friends.

Getting Cooking Classes Right

Nuriootpa has two quite different hands-on food classes for a group. Maggie Beer's Farm Shop has guests cook a course from Maggie's recipe books and sit down to lunch, while Cultured Cheese School spends a morning making one cheese from culture to press.

What you make, and for how long:

The seasonal cooking school at Maggie Beer's Farm Shop is capped at 10: a demonstration with a glass in hand, then aprons on to cook one course, then a long-table lunch of the results.
Allow roughly two and a half hours of cooking ahead of the meal, and each cook goes home with recipe cards.
A lighter farm shop experience brings four or more into the studio kitchen for a demonstration, followed by guided wine and gin pours and a grazing lunch by the dam.
Cultured Cheese School gives each three-hour workshop to a single cheese (haloumi, feta or camembert), with public places from $180 per person.
Cheese students leave with what they made, a kit, recipes and ongoing support from cheesemaker Erin Jones.

Maggie Beer's Farm Shop takes private bookings for groups of more than six.
The farm shop also runs themed sessions on sweets, on cocktails with snacks, and on cooking without meat.
Cultured Cheese School sets up private workshops for businesses and other groups, usually from 12 adults.
Erin can also take the cheese class to a holiday home for a birthday, quoted on group size and the cheeses chosen.

Planning the day around a Nuriootpa class

The cheese class is held among wine barrels inside a cellar door on Research Road, and the half-day includes morning tea, wine to taste and a cheese platter at the end.
Pack a cooler bag or small esky so the cheese travels home cold.
At the farm shop, leave time for a walk around the dam, where turtles and birdlife are easy to spot.
Public cheese workshops are paid in full at booking.

Answers to Common Cooking Class Questions

Which Nuriootpa class suits a group of 12 workmates?

Cultured Cheese School's private workshops usually start at 12 adults, and Maggie Beer's Farm Shop books private experiences for groups of more than six.

Do we eat what we cook at Maggie Beer's Farm Shop?

Yes, the seasonal cooking school ends with everyone at a long table eating the course they made.

Which cheeses can we make at Cultured Cheese School?

Each workshop focuses on one: haloumi, feta or camembert.

Is wine part of these Nuriootpa cooking classes?

The cheese workshop includes a wine tasting, and the farm shop experience adds a guided wine and gin tasting.