Cooking sous vide is easier than the fancy name might suggest. Join Sam to discover how to achieve the best results in your home kitchen with a menu including: slow cooked octopus with compressed tomatoes and fennel; grilled pork shank salad with sous vide summer vegetables and sherry dressing; and for dessert, refreshing watermelon sashimi with sweet sushi rice and dehydrated fruit rolls. Not to be missed!


Sous Vide for the Home Cook
Achieve great results at home
Whether you want to explore a new cuisine, learn some new techniques or simply expand your cooking repertoire, our highly experienced instructors will show you how to prepare delicious dishes that are guaranteed to impress. Click here for more information the class format.
Image is indicative only and does not reflect the exact ingredients or dishes you will use/make during this class.

About the Chef
Sam Bate
Chef, Poacher & Hound
Sam finished his Chef apprenticeship at The Botanic Gardens restaurant in Adelaide. Moving to Melbourne he worked under Philippe Mouchel at Langton’s along with other chefs including Scott Pickett, Joe Vargetto, Stewart Bell and Sascha Randle. At 23 he became Head Chef of Winter Haven for a ski season in Falls Creek, where he won a Best Restaurant award across the three main Victorian mountains. In 2002 he spent 2 years living locally and gaining experience in Bavaria, Germany before returning in 2004 to work casually with Philippe at his Brasserie in Crown. It was here, Philippe introduced him to Sous Vide cuisine which Sam then developed into a meal delivery service called Customcuisine.
In 2009 he joined Salvatore Malatesta to open Tsubu, a Japanese inspired Izakaya in Melbourne Uni’s 1888 building. Following its sale, Sam again worked as Philippe’s sous Chef at the short lived De ja vue. In 2015, with an old house mate, work began on a contemporary café called Poacher & Hound which opened in 2016. More

Whether you want to explore a new cuisine, learn some new techniques or simply expand your cooking repertoire, our highly experienced instructors will show you how to prepare delicious dishes that are guaranteed to impress. Click here for more information the class format.
Image is indicative only and does not reflect the exact ingredients or dishes you will use/make during this class.