Learn how to use AI tools to transform your work as a chef. Discover practical techniques for menu development, recipe creation, food costing, allergen substitutions, prep lists, plating descriptions, wine pairings, and kitchen workflows. Built for chefs, sous chefs, line cooks, culinary students, and kitchen managers. No coding required.
This free course is designed for chefs, sous chefs, line cooks, culinary students, and kitchen managers who want to bring AI tools into their daily work. Starting from the basics of how AI works in a culinary context, you will learn how to write effective prompts and quickly understand where AI genuinely helps and where your own professional judgment still matters most. No coding background is needed, and you can start applying what you learn from the very first lesson.
The hands-on modules cover the tasks that take up real time in a professional kitchen: building and iterating on menus, scaling recipes and handling yield conversions, managing allergen substitutions for dietary requirements, and writing polished plating descriptions and menu copy that sell a dish. You will also work through automating prep lists and mise en place, running food costing and plate cost analysis, generating wine pairing suggestions, drafting staff training materials and kitchen SOPs, and producing food safety logs and HACCP documentation.
By the end of the course you will have built a complete AI-powered kitchen workflow, including a custom GPT configured as a sous-chef assistant. You will know how to use AI for sourcing research, seasonality planning, and food trend spotting. Finishing the course and passing the final exam earns a certificate of completion you can add to your LinkedIn profile or resume, showing employers and clients that you are working at the edge of modern culinary practice.
4 modules • 15 lessons
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn this free, shareable certificate.
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Michail Ouroumis
Founder, FreeAcademy.ai
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The course walks through practical culinary applications across four modules: writing your first AI prompts, using AI for menu development, recipe scaling, allergen management, and plating copy, then automating prep lists, food costing, wine pairings, SOPs, and HACCP logs, and finally building a custom sous-chef GPT and a complete AI-powered kitchen workflow. Every topic is grounded in real kitchen tasks rather than general technology theory.
Yes, the course is completely free to take. Completing all lessons and passing the final exam earns you a certificate of completion that you can add to your LinkedIn profile or resume.
No coding or technical background is required. The course is built for culinary professionals and students who want practical AI skills, and it starts from the very basics of how AI tools work in a kitchen context.
The course focuses on conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT and custom GPTs, covering how to prompt them effectively for culinary tasks including recipe R&D, yield conversions, dietary substitutions, food costing, staff training materials, and food safety documentation. The final module guides you through building your own sous-chef custom GPT.
It is designed for anyone working in or studying a professional kitchen: executive chefs, sous chefs, line cooks, culinary students, and kitchen managers. If you handle menus, costing, prep, or team training in a food service environment and want to work more efficiently, this course is for you.
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