Compare two entirely different scenarios with a common objective: cooking a tasty dish at your kitchen and a cooking class. What are the comparative advantages and disadvantages of both approaches? What impact does going to a cooking class have on a dish and how different is it from a regular kitchen dish from a household?

Obviously, a cooking class will be different from a regular kitchen class. A cooking class, like any other professional course, takes to cooking in a professional way. Unlike the cooking at home this is pretty much informal, cooking classes are a formal setting and has a structured approach to cooking and teaching the culinary arts.

So, how different can a cooking class be from a regular home cooking and what are the advantages and characteristics of a cooking course? The following sections will discuss formal cooking in details.

First, this must be remembered that unlike an informal setup like home, a cooking class is a formal setup. A typical course on cooking will have its own set of objectives, methodology and course structure. It will have its own class timings and batches. These characteristics are absent in a typical home set up. A home setup on the other hand, does not have any formalized structure at all.

Second, the objectives of a home kitchen setup and a cooking course setup are entirely different. While a cooking at home strives to make the meals to meet the daily needs, a cooking course is a commercial institution that is driven to generate revenue. A cooking course will typically want to give away certificates and want to create a chef out of its courses.

Third, a cooking school can invite eminent experts in the culinary field to deliver lectures to the students. The students can gain immensely from the experience that the culinary experts share with them. There is no such necessity if the cooking is done at home.

Fourth, as stated earlier, a cooking school will have a specific and an elaborate course structure and methodology. The cooking that is taught at these schools is more based on scientific principles and principles of hygiene.

A student is taught about what proportion of ingredients can make the tastiest food. There is also the emphasis on healthy food. Home food is equally hygienic with the difference that the cooking methodology is absolutely instinctive and the techniques are usually legacy techniques passed down from generation to generation.

Lastly, the culinary arts at these schools will teach you how to customize or tailor cooking, depending on individual tastes. You will learn how to cook different types of food, based on the food styles of people from different geographies.