Top 10 Cookery Team Building Events & Activities
Top 10 Cookery Team Building Events & Activities
Cooking is usually an activity that is associated with a person’s home, often enjoyed around family and friends. Cookery team building events reminiscent with people’s home lives and therefore evokes a set of emotions that leads to breakdown professional barriers, enabling team collaborations between employees.
Contrary to believe, cookery team building events are more inclusive that some standard team building events. Cooking events provide individuals with practical skills that they can take away with them, as well as a hands-on experience.
Top 10 Cookery Team Building Events
#1 Bakeathon
Our Bakeathon is literally pure baking fun! Enjoy this team building event, as teams go head-to-head in a series of baking challenges, including a showstopper, star bake, technical round and a creative round!
The Bakeathon is a perfect event to unleash some creativity and get people working together. With just the right amount of competition, the Bakeathon is a fantastic cookery team event that gets everyone involved. After all, who doesn’t like cake!
#2 Strictly Come Dining
You’ve seen the programme, now it’s your turn for you and your team to take part in this fun and creative cookery team building event. Teams will go head-to-head to produce a tasty 2-3 course lunch or dinner, where they will take the responsibility for the preparation and cooking od the menus. Not only this but teams must also prepare decorative table settings and serve each other your culinary delights.
When dining each group judges and scores what they have eaten between the courses. The winner from each course then goes before our food judges to give their final verdict. You will be judged on team work, time management, dish presentation, creativity and most importantly… taste!
#3 Chocolate Making
Our Chocolate Making workshops are perfect for any corporate team wanting to bring the team together.
Enjoy a fascinating talk about the cocoa bean and how it becomes the chocolate you see in front of you. You will then have the chance to taste, shape, dip and decorate your very own Belgian chocolates using your new found skills taught by our professional chocolatiers.
Each guest will be expected to make and elegantly gift wrap 20 chocolates to take home – if you haven’t eaten them by then!
#4 Molecular Gastronomy
This new phenonomen is simply out of this world. Have you ever wondered how the modern chefs such as Heston Blumenthal creates these amazing molecular dishes? Well now is your chance to find out. Our professional chefs will present to you and your team a variety of ways to add vibrancy to your dishes including hot gels and spheres.
#5 Hells Kitchen
Put your teams through a real grilling and discover how they work together and perform under extreme pressure. Will they be able to handle evasive, unhelpful, and sometimes rude chefs? See how your team copes with change, problems, and obstacles we put in their way whilst they plan, cook, and create a 3-course meal.
As we turn up the heat will guests thrive and unite, or will they crumble and hide in the larder? On the day our chefs will get into the character of obnoxious, naughty, and nasty Chefs who will do their best to trigger responses!
#6 Team Masterchef
Our Team Masterchef is an event for all tastes and abilities. Following on from a live demonstration, teams will have an opportunity to make a range of dishes enabling individuals to learn several cooking processes and culinary skills.
Teams must listen carefully to the instructions and take notes as the chef will not assist once the demonstration has finished. There will also be a mystery ingredient that teams must cook using their creativity as well as tokens to spend in the larder, where key items are stocked.
#7 Culinary Games
This Culinary Games includes several practical and interactive quiz challenges all packed into this event. Culinary Games consists of different challenges, that may include: a quick cupcake decorating challenge, making a bridge out of spaghetti, several quiz-based rounds, chocolate making against the clock and a culinary finale!
This activity is a real crowd pleaser, and perfect for all types of corporate entertainment – it’s fast, fun, and action-packed competitive culinary event full of hilarious foodie challenges!
#8 Sushi Making
The popularity of sushi over the years has increased! It’s low in fat, and packed full of omega 3 and vitamins. Sushi making is a great way to spend a few hours learning some new skills that you can use repeatedly.
Following the practical session another demonstration from the chef is given to include classic and modern sushi such as Maki Sushi and Ura Maki (Californian Roll) and a classic dragon roll.
#9 Cupcake Decorating
Another creative activity where there simply is no limit about what you can do with a cupcake. All you need is a can-do attitude, a small amount of creativity and an army of icing!
We will give the group an expert demonstration on how to make perfect cupcakes, this will be followed by decorating with butter cream, royal icing, piping techniques, modelling with sugar paste and colouring techniques.
Want a competitive event? Team will be tasked to create their own cupcake brand with a. niche concept complete with their iced cupcakes, and packaging ready for us to judge.
#10 Marks, Set, Cook!
In Marks, Set, Cook your host will create the buzz and pressure of a busy kitchen in this competitive culinary activity. Teams will select one of our mystery baskets, in addition each team will receive a budget to spend in our onsite mini market that includes additional luxury ingredients, blackboards, pens and a market trader to bid and barter with for that essential ingredient to make that extra special dish.
Why should I host a Cooking Team Building Event?
Corporate cooking events are a highly social activity, and our events provide an alternative option to team building and corporate events. If the thought of a professional kitchen and a professional chef sounds a little daunting… don’t worry. We bring all of our cooking equipment to a venue of your choice, so you can feel relaxed.
Whether it’s to reward your employees, or simply to entertain participants we have a multitude of options for you to choose from. Groups will be amazed at the progress they will learn with their handy culinary skills!