Premium Classes

I just paid $50 for the premium classes in expectation of learning some seriously next level sous vide techniques and recipes. Instead all I’m finding are annoyingly short little videos, 1-2 minutes in length that showed things that I have and could have learned from many online forums and cookbooks. Some recipes sound okay but nothing that exciting. All in all I’m very disappointed and feel I’ve wasted my money!

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brian_martin2001

Emailing them directly would probably be a, better option for you than waiting for them to reply to this post. Their presence here is far and few between.

montebello1964

I'm sure they'll give you a refund. Watch the door on the way out...

montebello1964

Isn't it $39 too? (or $20 right now when bundled with a Joule)

tshewman

The premium does have a ton of recipes, but also a plethora of non-SV recipes......do NOT discount those. Macarons, spherification, whipping siphons, veg recipes, baking, soups etc etc. Easily the best $20 or $40 or whatever it was I spent a few years ago.

muriel_ritchi_978488

I’d love to contact them directly! If you can find a way to do so please let me know. There does not seem to be any place for “contact us” on the website.

brian_martin2001

On the home page, at the bottom of the page, there is a link for support. The contact email is info@ChefSteps.com. Good luck

Brandon_Byrd_40557

Premium made sense back when they were creating content. But CS gave up on educating when they monetized, and they left Premium to stagnate. I wish they put 1/32nd the effort into Premium that they put into Joule. At least the description of Premium no longer promises the allure of new content... instead it's just billed as "unlimited access" to the past. I'm happy that it's accurate, but I'm sad that that's the case.

Premium used to be "seriously next level." ChefSteps used to be "seriously next level." But it's not anymore. It's old news... a "set-it-and-forget-it souse vide tool" and a bunch of pre-made sauces. Selling consumers convenience foods with QR codes on them isn't at all what ChefSteps is about. Or what it used to be about. Or what I thought it used to be about... Anyway, I wouldn't recommend Premium now unless there's a specific thing that you want to learn. The sous-vide content on there isn't especially good or special compared with what ChefSteps has already given us for free. The coffee course is good, but if you're into coffee at all then you probably already know it. Reading the coffee chapter of MC and looking around YouTube can get you pretty far. The macaron class is supposed to be great, but I don't bake so that was useless to me. I watched it all the way through because I'm a baller, but I never made anything from it. The spherification and siphons courses are good, but again... Modernist Cuisine and YouTube can get you pretty dang far without the CS courses. And free online resources about hydrocolloids and whatnot. But the information they used to crank out here at ChefSteps was of the very highest quality and having all the recipes under one roof with easy organization is very helpful. Premium used to be worth the... premium. But I'm not sure that it is anymore. ChefSteps was on the bleeding edge of technology when they launched; now it's more than half a decade on, everyone else has caught up, and ChefSteps is getting lost in the shuffle because they stopped trying.

clockoclock_1017234

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