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4worldlovers: From celebrating birthdays to company parties and cooking classes, The Way Cool Cooking School specializes in fun cooking events for all ages! We’ve been bringing families, friends and companies together in the kitchen through delicious and interactive food experiences and teaching lifelong skills in the kitchen since 2004.

Our summer camp program was rated one of the top summer programs for kids by Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine for the 4th year! Our 2023 camps are already almost 80% full, reserve your spot today!

We had an absolute blast at our cooking class!! The chefs teaching us were wonderful and the food tasted amazing.

What a great experience and local gem! My son did a restaurant camp this summer and had a blast. He said "everyone at the cooking school is SO nice!" and that he thinks food tastes better when he cooks it himself. Thanks for the fun summer memory. We'll be back for more.

Our kid’s birthday party at Way Cool Cooking School was super fun and easy! The kids were completely engaged in the cooking projects and had a blast. Parents were able to chat in the background and at the end we walked out the door and didn’t clean a thing!

Chefs Alex and Rebecca were so knowledgeable and helpful. Rocky and Rob were such a great addition too! The food was amazing. We immediately scheduled 2 more classes. Book today! You will have the beat time... and don't forget you can bring your own beverages!

Had my daughter's 7th birthday party here. She selected her party, theme and cake. Everything was super easy and very clean. The kids loved it and my daughter wants to go back.

We signed up our 8 year old daughter for the cake decorating class at WCCS and she LOVED IT!! It sparked her to want to do more of these classes and try more baking at home! She said the instructor was fun and cool (hard compliments to get from a sassy 8 year old). She is putting her birthday money towards more classes. Thanks so much WCCS for the enthusiasm you gave my daughter towards baking!!

We just celebrated my daughter's birthday at Way Cool Cooking School and they knocked it out of the park. It was all organized by them and absolutely adorable. They had a huge assortment of party themes to choose. That was the hardest part. But they handled every detail. They decorated according to theme, provided a themed cake, candles, and even provided paper products with the theme. The kids were engaged the entire time. You could tell the chef knew how to teach children. It ran smoothly and was less chaotic than most birthday party arenas. The items they made were adorable and the kids had fun making and eating their creations. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a fun and unique birthday experience.

We tried this place out after hearing how awesome it is and we were not disappointed. Chef Mary was a great teacher and we learned enough in the sushi class to be dangerous with it at home. Class was easy to follow, the food that we created tasted great, and the 2 hours flew. We want to have our kids take a class next.

Thank you for making our girls weekend one for the record books!

I highly recommend this to everyone. We had a group of 17 girlfriends that did the chopped challenge with apps included. We were a little Nervous cause it can be intimidating if you’re not an awesome cook & boy were we wrong. It was absolutely incredible! Crystal and Danica were our chefs and they were outstanding giving pointers and cheering us on. The food was delicious. Just remember… you eat with your eyes first! Thank you for making our girls weekend one for the record books!

I gave my adult daughter and her boyfriend, a Christmas gift experience, which was a cooking class, for the three of us, at the Way Cool Cooking school. We were a part of a Moroccan recipe night. The food was amazing, the instruction was exceptional, and the environment was second to none. I highly recommend this for a special date night, family event, what team building event! Truly exceptional!

4worldlovers: From popping by, to popping up, to partnership, our relationship continues to strengthen along with the pastries, products, and cooking classes

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THAT Cooking School offers a fun environment for kids, families, and adults to learn culinary skills. Owner and Primary Chef Bill Niemer has been in the industry for over 30 years with experience running schools such as Le Cordon Bleu and AI Minnesota.

Our Kids Cooking CAMPS offer the perfect mix of cooking, eating & fun! Kids spend time in the kitchen, chopping, grating and rolling their way to delicious dishes with the guidance of our chef instructors. Hands on experience!

*We have the right to cancel if not enough sign up

The camps take place at Mendota VFW, Hwy 13 Lower level Enter on side door

To register please contact Willam at 651-238-7017 or niemervilliam@gmail.com

Looking for a fabulous and fun event catered by your very own personal chef for your next party or event?

Contact That Cooking School. We offer custom tailored parties and private events. From Corporate Team Building events to girl scout troops, That Cooking School will make your event a great sucess.

Here are some of the events we can provide for you:

Executive Chef heads to Kitchen to take a picture of the pantry to see what items are available for their meal

Create 1 dish to present to the judges, remainder is to be served buffet style for the entire group to enjoy. Must use each ingredient from your mystery basket in your meal.

Decorate your table to match the themed bin (think outside the box) this is part of your presentation score.

Think you know how to make a mean chili or want to learn? Join forces and we will put your skills and creativity to the test!

For this event you will need 2 or more teams of people. Number of people per team can vary, depending on the size of the group. Each team will be given the same protein to work with and spices/sauces to use to create their meal.

Each team will elect a captain who will be the one in charge of selecting cards from different categories for their team.

The host will initially have 3 piles of cards for the teams to pick from. With cards shuffled and facing down or away from the group each captain will draw a card at random for their team from each pile. First pile will be the vegetable cards, then the starch cards. After cards have been drawn each team will be given a brainstorming session where the teams will come up with ideas of what and how to cook their meal. After the brainstorming session Captains will draw from the third pile, the action cards. Action cards can be either a benefit for the team or a hinderance to any chosen team. Captains (with the help of their team members) will either choose their benefit or which team they are going to hinder (if applicable) in the order that was originally decided in the dice roll. Let the food fight begin!

Halfway through cooking, everyone will need to pause for captains to draw a halfway card. Based on the same order as before, cards will be drawn and decisions of how to act on the cards will be made.

When time is up, each team will present their meal to the group. All groups should then sit and enjoys each others meals together. Voting will take place during that time.

Action cards: Choose and extra item from the pantry, Choose a team to use kid knives, Swap veggie with any team, Swap starch with any team, 5 min. head start, Choose a team that can only use one burner, Choose a team to incorporate a secret ingredient, Choose a team to wear a cone of shame (except while chopping)

Halfway through cards: Swap stations with any other team, Choose a team to work one handed, Choose a team to use only the ladle of doom or the fork of power for a utensil, Choose a team to have to come up with a change or song when presenting their meal, Choose a team to only talk in hand gestures (no talking!)