Steve Williams
Charcuterie at Home
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Artisan charcutier Steve Williams teaches you how to create charcuterie including cured, smoked and dried meats at home.
You'll start with looking at the equipment you need, before learning how to butcher a pig ready to create charcuterie. Steve will then show you how to brine and dry cure your pork cuts. You'll learn how to choose which brine to use and you'll start creating your first charcuterie alongside Steve.
As you go through the course you'll learn how to make coppa ham, fermented sausages, and how to smoke venison and chicken. The final lesson shows you how to use your BBQ for hot smoking your meat and how to make a cold smoker.
What will you learn?
- basic butchery and preparing a whole pig for charcuterie
- brining and dry curing
- casing options for sausages
- how to hang meat and measure when it's ready to eat
- hot smoking using a BBQ
- how to cold smoke food
What is included?
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Steve Williams and River Cottage
- lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical charcuterie and smoked food assignments and recipes (with tutor feedback available)
- access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
- small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas
How long will it take to complete?
Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 15 minutes to complete including:
- Video lessons: 2 hours 15 minutes in total
- Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
- Your charcuterie and smoked food recipe assignments: at least 2 hours per lesson
- Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
- Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson
What will you need?
Your lesson notes will include the full details of the ingredients and equipment you'll need, but you will be making charcuterie and smoked food, so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.
Independent Cookery Schools Association approved
This course has been approved by the Independent Cookery Schools Association (ICSA), recognising the highest standards of training.
Lessons
What You’ll Learn
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Steve will show you how to prepare a pig for your charcuterie.
You'll learn what equipment you'll need to make charcuterie, smoke and cure meats at home and where to source the equipment, along with Steve's recommendations for sourcing meat.
You'll be preparing cuts of the meat ready to cure, dry and smoke in the next lessons.
This lesson will give you an overview of brines and brining. Including how to make and store your own brine at home.
You'll also learn the difference between brining and dry curing.
You'll start to apply these techniques to the pork cuts you made in lesson 1.
In this lesson you'll be learning to turn your pork meat into salami and chorizo.
You'll look at casing options, how to mince your meat and the back fat from the pork and how to create incredible fermented sausages.
Steve will show you how to hang your meat, track the meat's weight-loss as it dries and how to know when it's ready to taste.
Steve will show you how to use a BBQ for hot smoking, and a cold smoker you can re-create at home.
You'll learn a quick smoking recipe for chicken and venison.
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Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
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You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.
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