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Pressure cooking at Christmas

Name: Pressure cooking at Christmas
Brand: Catherine Phipps
Price: 45.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

with Catherine Phipps

£45

Tuesday 17th
November 2026

18:30-20:30
(2hrs)

Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

Join Catherine Phipps, pressure cooker expert, who will show you how pressure cooking takes all the stress out of your Christmas preparations, as well as helping to significantly reduce your fuel bills during one of the most expensive times of the year.

Pressure Cookers are a marvel – they cut up to 75% off most cooking times but are also the tool you need to help you with all kinds of hacks and shortcuts which will help you with all your Christmas prep.

Pressure cookers will help with all your festive preparations.

Before the big day:

Steaming and re-steaming your Christmas pudding in less than a quarter of the time.

Quick soaking all your dried fruit into plump, glossy jewels in moments instead of days, to use for puddings, cakes and mincemeat

Making your own candied peel, for baking and turning into orangettes ideal for snacks and presents

Softening fruit and vegetables for Christmas chutneys, jams and marmalades

Fast roasting chestnuts, making them super easy to peel

Speedy stock for sauces and gravy

Boiling a ham in as little as 10 minutes, also giving you excellent stock

On the day itself:

Par boiling all your vegetables

Quick roasting or sautéeing vegetables in a fraction of the time than the oven takes

Braised red cabbage in less than 10 minutes instead of over an hour

Cranberry sauce in moments

Fast side dishes – such as root vegetables gratins, made in less than ten minutes. Sautéed Brussels sprouts with bacon, chestnuts etc in less than 5 minutes

Plus all kinds of things which make entertaining over the season much easier – steaming large batches of eggs to soft or hard boiled in much less time, useful considering how popular things like devilled eggs are again!

Baking whole camembert in 5 minutes perfect for an instant fondue

Catherine will talk you through a million ways to use up leftovers. Pressure cookers are brilliant for all soups, curries, pie fillings, stews all created in minutes.

Menu:

Brussels sprout Christmas tree

Pressure Baked Tunworth cheese with new potatoes steamed underneath. One pot - instant fondue

Pressure roast carrots & parsnips

Ham with cranberry sauce

Sauté of Duck with braised red cabbage with orange & pomegranate

Christmas pudding – steamed in moments!

Orangettes - the perfect Christmas gift

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

What to expect:

A live demonstration showcasing a pressure cooker in action
Refreshments on arrival and throughout the class
Tastings of the dishes prepared
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.