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Teaching Kitchen · San Francisco

Cook Withoutthe Carbs.Keep All the Craft.

Hands-on sessions where butter browns in copper pans and cauliflower becomes crust. Keto as culinary craft, not dietary punishment.

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< 8g
Avg. Net Carbs
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24+
Classes Monthly
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1,400
Students Trained
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🧈Brown Butter Hollandaise🥐Almond Flour Croissants🦆Duck Fat Confit🍮Keto Pâtisserie🥧Grain-Free Pastry🌶️Fermented Hot Sauce🥩Fat-Rendered Sauces🧀Charcuterie & Cured Meats🥦Cauliflower Crust Mastery🍳Cast-Iron Technique
Slow-motion pour of golden brown butter over perfectly seared scallops on a dark slate plate, steam rising against warm kitchen light
Our Philosophy

Fat is flavor. Technique is freedom. Keto is the kitchen at its most honest.

We don't teach substitutions. We teach the Maillard reaction, the way rendered duck fat pools in a rondeau, the exact temperature where almond flour goes from raw to golden. When you understand the science, you never need a recipe card again.

8
Cuisine types covered
3
Skill levels offered
40+
Techniques per course
100%
Hands-on, zero lecture
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Cracked egg yolk on a dark slate surface, deep golden color catching warm kitchen light, coarse salt crystals scattered nearby

The yolk is not a garnish. It's the sauce.

Brown Butter & Fat-Rendered Sauces — Mar 1
Class Calendar

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Every class is a full session — no demos, no watching. You cook, you plate, you eat.

Golden brown butter sauce being poured over seared scallops on a dark plate with fresh herbs
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French Foundations
Foundational3 hrs

Brown Butter & Fat-Rendered Sauces

Portrait of Chef Amara Osei
Chef Amara Osei
Sat, Mar 110:00 AM
3 of 12 seats left
$145
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Freshly baked almond flour croissants with flaky layers on a wooden board dusted with almond flour
New
Keto Pâtisserie
Intermediate4 hrs

Grain-Free Pastry: Croissants & Tarts

Portrait of Chef Lena Brauer
Chef Lena Brauer
Sun, Mar 29:00 AM
7 of 10 seats left
$165
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Perfectly seared ribeye steak in a cast-iron skillet with rosemary and garlic butter, golden crust visible
American Craft
Foundational3 hrs

Cast-Iron Mastery: Ribeye & Roots

Portrait of Chef Marcus Webb
Chef Marcus Webb
Sat, Mar 811:00 AM
9 of 12 seats left
$135
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Artisanal charcuterie board with cured meats, aged cheeses, fermented vegetables and homemade condiments
Almost Full
Preservation Arts
Advanced5 hrs

Fermented Condiments & Charcuterie

Portrait of Chef Amara Osei
Chef Amara Osei
Sun, Mar 910:00 AM
2 of 8 seats left
$195
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Dark chocolate soufflé rising from a ramekin with powdered cocoa dusting, warm kitchen backdrop
Keto Pâtisserie
Advanced4 hrs

Keto Soufflé & Chocolate Ganache

Portrait of Chef Lena Brauer
Chef Lena Brauer
Sat, Mar 152:00 PM
8 of 8 seats left
$175
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Crispy duck confit leg on a white plate with rich bone broth reduction sauce and roasted vegetables
French Foundations
Intermediate4 hrs

Duck Confit & Bone Broth Reductions

Portrait of Chef Marcus Webb
Chef Marcus Webb
Sun, Mar 1611:00 AM
5 of 10 seats left
$155
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Coarse sea salt crystals tumbling through a chef's fingers over a dark ceramic bowl, warm golden kitchen light in background

Season with confidence, not caution.

Keto does not mean saltless
Who Comes to Sear

The apron fits everyone.

Three very different reasons to be here. One kitchen that meets all of them.

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Newly Diagnosed

Reclaim dinner without fear.

You've just been handed a diagnosis and a list of foods to avoid. We hand you an apron and show you that a ribeye with béarnaise, a crème brûlée made with monk fruit, a bowl of pasta that's actually zucchini — these are not punishments. They're dinner.

  • Blood sugar-stable meals that don't taste clinical
  • Understand glycemic response through cooking, not charts
  • Build a repertoire of 20+ satisfying weeknight dishes
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Exhausted Parents

End the 6pm panic.

You've tried the meal kits. You've pinned 200 recipes you'll never make. You need 30-minute dinners that the whole table will eat, that don't require a separate "kids' version," and that happen to be low-carb because someone in your house needs it.

  • Batch-cook strategies that feed a family for 4 days
  • Sauces that make any protein taste intentional
  • Kid-tested keto sides that aren't just sad lettuce
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Skilled home cook carefully searing scallops in a copper pan with brown butter, focused expression, professional kitchen setting
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Serious Home Cooks

Master the craft, lose the grain.

You already know your way around a knife. You've made stock from scratch. You're not here for basic — you want to understand why almond flour needs a binder, how xanthan gum behaves in pastry, the exact emulsification point of a keto hollandaise.

  • Grain-free pastry lamination from first principles
  • Fat-rendered sauce chemistry (no flour needed)
  • Fermentation and charcuterie for the serious larder
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The Instructors

Taught by people who cook for a living.

Not wellness coaches. Not recipe bloggers. Trained chefs who went keto for real reasons and rebuilt their repertoire from scratch.

Chef Amara Osei smiling in a professional kitchen, wearing a white chef coat with copper pans visible in the background

"Keto didn't limit my cooking. It made me understand it."

Chef Amara Osei

Lead Instructor — Sauces & Preservation

Trained at Le Cordon Bleu Paris, spent 6 years in Michelin-starred kitchens before a Type 2 diagnosis changed her relationship with food entirely. Now she teaches the same techniques — just with rendered fat instead of flour.

Brown Butter SaucesFermentationCharcuterie
8
Classes
420+
Students
Chef Lena Brauer in a bright kitchen studio with pastry tools and almond flour on the marble counter beside her

"Almond flour isn't a substitute. It's an ingredient with its own logic."

Chef Lena Brauer

Pâtisserie & Grain-Free Specialist

Former pastry chef at a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Copenhagen. Spent two years reverse-engineering every classical pastry into a grain-free version that doesn't taste like a compromise. It doesn't.

Keto PâtisserieLaminated DoughsChocolate Work
6
Classes
290+
Students
Chef Marcus Webb standing at a cast-iron skillet in a warm kitchen, wearing a dark apron, confident expression

"A perfect sear needs nothing else. That's the whole lesson."

Chef Marcus Webb

Fire & Protein Specialist

Grew up in a Texas BBQ family, trained in New York fine dining, diagnosed with pre-diabetes at 38. He bridges the gap between backyard grill mastery and refined technique — all without a single piece of white bread in sight.

Cast-Iron TechniqueButcherySmoke & Fat Rendering
7
Classes
380+
Students

What students say after the apron comes off.

"I was diagnosed with Type 2 in January. By March I was making duck confit from scratch. Sear didn't give me a diet. It gave me a kitchen."

Portrait of Priya Nambiar, a woman with dark hair smiling warmly
Priya Nambiar
Foundational Graduate

"I've done three other cooking classes. None of them taught me why things work. Lena explained the science of lamination with almond flour in 20 minutes and I finally understood pastry."

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Daniel Kowalski
Pâtisserie Intermediate

"My kids ate cauliflower crust pizza and asked for seconds. That alone was worth every dollar."

Portrait of Tanya Orozco, a woman with warm brown eyes and a bright smile
Tanya Orozco
Parents Track Graduate
Split vanilla bean pods on dark wood surface with vanilla seeds scraped out, warm moody kitchen lighting

Every ingredient earns its place.

Grain-Free Pâtisserie — Mar 2
Pricing

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Per ClassMembershipSave 35%
Single Session
$135per class

Foundational level. No commitment.

  • Full 3–5 hour hands-on session
  • All ingredients & tools provided
  • Take-home recipe cards
  • Wine or mocktail pairing
  • Post-class Q&A with instructor
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Advanced Session
$195per class

Advanced & specialty modules.

  • Full 3–5 hour hands-on session
  • All ingredients & tools provided
  • Take-home recipe cards
  • Wine or mocktail pairing
  • Post-class Q&A with instructor
  • Advanced technique deep-dive
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