What is Rouxbe?

Rouxbe (pronounced roo-bee) is the web’s first-ever online cooking school. We are currently teaching home cooks in 180 countries around the world.

Our goal

To help you become a better and more confident cook by teaching you basic to advanced cooking skills and techniques – the same things that chefs learn in a professional cooking school – so you can be free from being a slave to just recipes.

Who are our students?

Home cooks of all ages that are motivated to become better cooks. They are tired of hit-and-miss recipe success and have realized that recipes are not the path to better cooking. They are ready to learn more but don’t have a lot of time so our 8- to 15-minute bite sized professional cooking lessons are a perfect fit within their busy weeks. They pick a lesson a week and a few practice recipes for their weekly meal plan.

How are we different from other food sites?

Unlike other online cooking sites that focus on recipes, celebrity chefs and short technique videos, the Rouxbe Cooking School is a fully integrated experience that mirrors an actual culinary curriculum, complete with instructional cooking video lessons, practice video recipes, culinary chef exercises, progress reporting, cooking quizzes, and personal chef support.

Compliment your favorite cooking resource with Rouxbe

Rouxbe is a complement, not competitor, to other cooking and recipe resources. If you have a favorite cookbook, culinary magazine, television food program or other online food site, that’s great, keep it. Come to Rouxbe to learn cooking techniques and skills and then use your newly-acquired cooking skills to tackle any recipe, from any resource, with confidence.

Is the Rouxbe Cooking School free?

Full access to the Rouxbe Cooking School requires a paid Premium Membership that is a fraction of the cost of any cooking school or recreational cooking program. For the cost of a single fancy dinner out, you can attend a professional cooking school at home for an entire year, complete with personal chef support. Payment options are monthly ($15), annual ($99) or lifetime ($299) for enrollment.

What is free on Rouxbe?

Rouxbe offers a free sample lesson every day and all of our instructional video recipes, text recipes, tip and technique videos and community forums are free. You don’t even have to sign up to learn a great deal on Rouxbe.

Who are we?

Our team is made up of professional cooking school instructors, instructional designers, leading experts in the field of digital media capture/deployment, along with a proven team of highly-successful Internet entrepreneurs and advisors that are passionate about building the best instructional cooking site on the web. Click here to meet them.

Rouxbe for Life

Rouxbe contributes 10% of all Premium Membership fees to Rouxbe for Life to help feed children in developing countries that suffer from chronic hunger.