08/15/2026
🔪Ash Chase Culinary
This is our "kitchen" only three years ago 😲
When we decided to move from our previous location, it was a stretch to visualize the ultimate outcome. This was an old art room used for storage at the time. It was much smaller than our original location and had a very different design.
Instead of backing down, we moved forward with a newer vision, a kitchen classroom focusing on kids, pre-teens & teens primarily. This was a space of our own and a kitchen we could grow in.
We still host adults and our Chef is exceptional with adults and upscale cuisine, but our decision to utilize this space and focus on kids was done with intention. While there are some "kids cooking" places scattered around Bucks County, not many (or any) focus on life in a professional commercial kitchen. Sure, we teach recipes, but we teach more than that in every class ... we teach students to THINK, WORK & COMMUNICATE like they are in a professional kitchen.
That means learning:
🔪 Professional kitchen skills, techniques, tips & tricks
🔥 How to move confidently and safely around a working kitchen
🗣️ How to communicate with the people cooking beside you
🤝 How to work as a team when everyone has a job to do
🍽️ Plating, presentation and those little details that make food feel special
🧠 How to problem-solve when something doesn’t go exactly as planned
✨ And most importantly, how to use creativity instead of simply copying a recipe
Our Chefs are there throughout the entire process: teaching, demonstrating, guiding, challenging and encouraging students to make decisions of their own.
Because great cooking isn’t about memorizing one recipe.
It’s about understanding why something works, learning what you can change, discovering your own style and figuring out how to create something incredible alongside other people.
There may be a little organized chaos.
There will definitely be dishes.
And somewhere between the chopping, sautéing, tasting, plating and “Chef, is this supposed to look like this?” 😂 real kitchen confidence begins to happen.
We feel our teaching style separates us from the others. This works for us and it works for those who choose us! 🧑🍳We are a small, local cooking school headed by Executive Chef Bill Murphy, who has extensive experience in upscale dining at The Four Seasons (Philadelphia & Chicago), trendy Starr Restaurants (many of them), hotel dining at The Hotel Bethlehem and Bucks County Chef at Earl's New American (for many years) along with The C**k & Bull for a period of time while rebuilding from the Earl's devastating fire. Chef Bill knows kitchens and is well versed in restaurant hospitality - our students are in great hands with him and our other Chef instructors at Ash Chase Culinary. 🍜
🥰Give us a try, we are more than learning a single recipe, we are a community of fun, like-minded students who love the vibe of a commercial kitchen and all that it has to offer.
