Cooking Classes

Cooking Classes

Kitchen Conservatory offers more than 900 different cooking classes every year. These fun cooking classes are taught by the talented chefs and fabulous culinary educators who share their specialties of the kitchen. We offer both fully-participatory classes and demonstration classes that feature a wide variety of menus and themes from beginner to gourmet to ethnic cooking. All cooking classes are held at 8021 Clayton Road.

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Featured Classes

Featured Classes

THE WEIGHT IS OVER

Welcome back into our kitchen for an afternoon of refreshing salads and a soup with so many vegetables that it should be considered salad in a bowl! Enjoy soupe au pistou with pesto, tomato-cucumber-yellow beet-feta salad with pita chips in lemon vinaigrette, grilled asparagus and roasted red bell peppers with salsa verde, shrimp-mango-avocado salad with pickled shallots, and spiralized zucchini zoodle salad with basil and roasted tomato dressing.
Chef: Kitchen Conservatory Chef
Class Type: Demonstration
Class Dates: Sat, Jun 6, 11 am to 1:30 pm
Cost: $45 Per Person

DATE NIGHT FOR COUPLES: HEAVY METAL COOKING

Couples will cast a spell on cooking with heavy cast iron pans creating rich Southern flavors. Join Mickey Kitterman, as this hands-on class makes skillet crab imperial served with grilled bread, wilted kale-red onion-mushroom salad with mini pimiento cheese balls, cast iron flat iron steaks with redeye gravy, spicy Cajun corn maque choux, plus skillet buttermilk pie.
Chef: Mickey Kitterman
Class Type: Hands-On
Class Dates: Sat, Jun 6, 6:30 to 9 pm
Cost: $140 Per Couple

THE CAST-ING DIRECTOR

Spend a fun evening in the kitchen with cast iron enthusiast Dawn Meyer, as she introduces a variety of cast iron pans to create exciting dishes from main courses to dessert. Dawn will lead this hands-on class to create crispy baked wild mushroom and penne pasta with spicy Italian sausage and parmesan cream sauce, salmon piccata with lemon caper sauce, skillet "pizza" chicken with pancetta and fresh mozzarella, a savory fresh herb Dutch baby, plus apple-blackberry skillet cake served with a dollop of crème fraîche.
Chef: Dawn Meyer
Class Type: Hands-On
Class Dates: Thu, Jun 11, 6 to 8:30 pm
Cost: $55 Per Person
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The best parties happen in the kitchen! Forget the hassle of entertaining at home or shouting over others at a noisy restaurant. Host your next shower, birthday party, Customize a Cooking Class Just For Your Group at Kitchen Conservatory: St. Louis MO corporate team-bonding event, office party, dinner club, or any other event in one of our lovely and fun kitchens. We will provide a fabulous 3 or 4 course dinner that is sure to be memorable. Plan the menu with one of our talented Kitchen Conservatory chefs and choose any menu you desire. Your menu is exactly what you want to eat. Tailor a program and menu that's perfect for you and your guests.

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Kitchen Conservatory is the premier kitchen store in St. Louis, Missouri. For 35 years, Kitchen Conservatory has offered the finest tools for the kitchen and delectable cooking classes at our Clayton store. Locally-owned and very independent, we offer all the tools and knowledge for the ultimate kitchen experience. Please browse our fabulous selection of more than 6,000 essential and useful cooking products or shop online. Email Ask the Chef to solve your cooking dilemmas!

Online Orders Ship Fast!

We are proud to be an independent local kitchenware store for 36 years and want to be your go-to store for baking, cooking, and kitchen supplies! Orders usually ship within 24 hours! Most orders placed on weekdays ship the same day! We ship all orders via UPS. If we have any questions about your order, […]

Margi Kahn’s Tender Sourdough Pancakes

We started giving away FREE sourdough starter on March 21, and it continues to be a hot commodity! It has reached over 16,000 people on Facebook with more than 100 shares. It is still available! Local customers may call us from their car when they arrive, and we will bring it out to your car! […]

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Curbside Pickup is available on ALL local orders. Order online and choose Pickup In Store when checking out. If there are any issues with your order, we will notify you. You may pick up items during regular hours, Mon-Sat 9:30 am to 5:30 pm and Sun 12 to 5 pm. Call us from the parking […]
 

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All Purpose Flour - 25 pound bag
Available only for local customers - pick up in store. We are not shipping this product. When checking out, choose delivery option: Pickup in store. Curbside service is available by calling our store from your car when you arrive!


This all-purpose flour is from hard red winter wheat and soft wheat to provide top-quality, white-colored, protein-rich flour. It has a protein content of 10.25%, which directly relates to the amount of gluten in the flour. 25 pounds.
Price: $29.95
Knife Sharpening - Straight Edge Knife
Have the sharpest knife in the drawer with our overnight knife sharpening service.  Drop off your knives at Kitchen Conservatory for expert sharpening and pick them up the next day, weekends included. Our wonderful knife sharpener can also repair broken or bent tips. Knives are sharpened on an electric water-cooled stone wheel to a 20-degree angle, unless otherwise requested.

Drop Off and Pick Up Service available for Local Customers only. Please wrap your knives safely in brown paper secured with a rubber band (no tape please) - paper grocery bags are great! Print FORM to include with knives. Curbside service available. Call us when you arrive and we will come out and get your knives and bring them out to you when you return for picking up knives.
Price: $3.00
Cupcake Kit

Includes:

  • Vanilla cupcake recipe
  • Chocolate cupcake recipe
  • One pack of the Simply Baked baking cups - choose Stripes or Polka Dots
  • One jar of Fancy Sprinkles - choose Pink or White with Pops of Color
  • Cakery Classic Buttercream Frosting - choose Chocolate or Vanilla
  • One disposable pastry bag 
  • One piping tip - choose Round or Star tip
Additional items will be available when you put this kit in the cart, including extra buttercream frosting (you might want one of each flavor), Plugra butter, vanilla extract, and Valrhona cocoa, and more. Your recipes will include a list of additional ingredients needed, that most will have in their pantry.

Choose PICK UP IN STORE as the shipping method. This kit cannot be shipped, as the buttercream frosting is frozen.

Vanilla cupcake recipe makes 24 cupcakes. Chocolate cupcake recipe makes 14-18 cupcakes.
Price: $23.95