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Pressure Cookery Demonstration

Name: Pressure Cookery Demonstration
Brand: Catherine Phipps
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Catherine Phipps

£30

Tuesday 2nd
June 2026

18:30-20:30
(2hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Summer Pressure Cooking with Catherine Phipps (Featuring Fissler)

Pressure cooking isn’t just for winter comfort food. In this inspiring demonstration, Catherine Phipps reveals why cooks in warmer climates have long relied on pressure cookers as an essential summer tool—dramatically reducing cooking times and keeping kitchens cooler.

Using the precision-engineered Fissler pressure cooker, Catherine will show how this method can cut cooking times by up to 70%, making it a faster, more energy-efficient, and cost-effective way to cook. Beyond convenience, pressure cooking also offers exceptional nutritional benefits, preserving more vitamins and minerals while helping to reduce anti-nutrients in ingredients.

Summer cooking is all about lightness and simplicity—building vibrant dishes from beans, grains, pulses, and vegetables. With a pressure cooker, greens can be cooked to perfect al dente in moments, retaining their colour, texture, and freshness.

On the menu:

Preserved lemon, served with hummus & crackers
Braised beans with seasonal greens in an anchovy, chilli & lemon sauce
Roast red pepper and nduja salad
Cauliflower & chickpea chaat (featuring pressure-roasted cauliflower with curry leaves and spices)
Cheesecake

Please note: This is a demonstration class and not a hands-on session.

What to expect:

A live demonstration showcasing the Fissler pressure cooker in action
Refreshments on arrival and throughout the class
Tastings of the dishes prepared
A Fissler goodie bag, including recipe cards from the session
10% discount on in-store purchases on the day (excluding books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers, and sale items)

Dietary requirements:
Adaptations for vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, and other key dietary needs may be possible. Please contact us prior to booking to discuss your requirements by phone 020 7581 8065) or email (brompton@divertimenti.co.uk.

About Catherine Phipps
Catherine Phipps is an acclaimed cookery writer and recipe developer, widely regarded as an authority on pressure cooking. Dubbed “the queen of pressure cooking” by Nigella Lawson, she is known for her innovative, flavour-driven approach. Her work has transformed how many people cook at home, and her popular Substack Catherine is Under Pressure continues to demystify pressure cooking, helping home cooks create delicious, stress-free meals with confidence.

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.