myCHEF — cooking class bali
Cooking Class Bali — Private 2.5–3 Hour Balinese Class in Your Villa
Private 2.5–3 hour Indonesian / Balinese class in your villa. Chef comes to you. Eat everything you cook. Diploma + recipes. Full clean-up. No hotel pickup.
- 2.5 or 3 hours at the villa
- No minibus · no hotel pickup
- Diploma + recipes
Published rates are ++ — 10% service charge and 11% government tax are added to the listed price. Your quote is always confirmed as a fixed, itemised all-in total before you commit.
Private · in your villa · chef comes to you
Best Cooking Class Bali — If You Mean Private, Not a Shared School
A cooking class Bali search usually shows group kitchen schools: free hotel pickup, a morning market, a shared bench of 10–18 strangers, 5–6.5 hours door-to-door. myCHEF is the other product.
This is a private 2.5–3 hour Indonesian / Balinese class in your villa. The chef comes to you. You cook 4–6 dishes, then eat everything at your table. Personalised diploma and recipe cards. Kitchen left clean. No hotel pickup. No minibus.
From IDR 700,000++ per person, minimum 4 guests (all-in IDR 847,000 pp). Couples pay the same 4-guest floor.
This is a cooking class Bali you hire for the villa you already rented — Canggu, Seminyak, or we come to your villa in Ubud. It is not a group kitchen school. It is an in-villa cooking class Bali: a private cooking class Bali where the chef comes to you, and a Balinese cooking class in your villa rather than in someone else’s classroom.
WhatsApp villa area, guest count, date, and whether you want 2.5 hours or 3 hours. We send a sample menu outline and a fixed all-in quote.
Published rates are ++ — 10% service charge and 11% government tax. Your quote is confirmed as a fixed, itemised all-in total before you commit. myCHEF has hosted 12,000+ guests across villa dining — this class sits in that same in-villa team.
Sushi is a different URL: sushi masterclass. A cooking class means you cook with the chef and eat what you cooked. If you want a chef to cook for you on other days, that is a homepage booking — never a chef day-rate on this page.
| Typical group kitchen school | myCHEF — chef comes to your villa | |
|---|---|---|
| Where | Hotel pickup, then a shared school kitchen. You leave the villa. | Your villa. The chef comes to you — Seminyak, Canggu, Ubud, Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Sanur, Nusa Dua, Kuta. No shuttle. |
| Time | Often 5–6.5 hours once pickups and a market walk are counted. | 2.5 or 3 hours at the villa. No minibus. |
| Who cooks | 10–18 strangers on a shared bench. Pace set by the room. | 100% private. Only your group. You cook together. |
| Market / pickup | Morning market walk + free hotel pickup is the usual school day. | No hotel pickup. No market minibus. The chef shops beforehand. Class time is cooking and eating. |
| Price shape | Shared-class tickets often about IDR 350,000–530,000 per person — you share the bench. | From IDR 700,000++ per person, minimum 4 (all-in IDR 847,000 pp). Private session, ingredients included. |
| What you eat | A set school menu, shared with the group. | You cook 4–6 dishes, then eat everything at your table. |
| Take-home | Usually a recipe PDF. | Personalised diploma (name + date), recipe cards, uniforms and chef hats, kitchen left clean. |
2.5–3 hours at the villa vs 5–6.5 hours with transfers
No Minibus. No Hotel Pickup.
Group schools build the day around a pickup, often a morning market, then a shared kitchen. Once the road time is in, guests are looking at 5–6.5 hours away from the villa — useful if you want a school day out, expensive in holiday hours if you already paid for a pool, a garden and a kitchen in Canggu or Seminyak.
A myCHEF cooking class Bali stays where you already are. 2.5 or 3 hours at the villa. No school shuttle. No hotel pickup. No minibus. The chef shops beforehand so class time is cooking, eating and the diploma. A market tour is not packaged on this URL.
That is the duration difference: a private cooking class in Bali that does not take the whole day. Tell us your start time — lunch or dinner — when you enquire. We do not publish a school timetable because the class is timed to your villa, not to a pickup loop.
If you specifically want a shared-school morning with market + pickup, book a school. If you want a private cooking class Bali in the kitchen you already rented, this page is the booking.
Real class stills — villa kitchen, not a school
How a Class Looks
These are original photos from a myCHEF in-villa class: family and chefs in aprons and hats, teaching at the marble island, Bumbu Genep mise en place, and the diploma handshake. This is what “chef comes to you” looks like — not a stock kitchen and not a phone video.
The 2.5 or 3-hour villa program
What Happens in the Class
A complete private Indonesian / Balinese cooking class in your villa — 2.5 or 3 hours, timed to the start you choose. Introduction to the food, hands-on cooking of 4–6 dishes, then the meal of everything you prepared. Every guest finishes with a personalised myCHEF Indonesian Cooking Diploma, recipe cards and a spotless kitchen.
1 · Welcome & introduction to the food (15–20 min)
Chef arrives with a short welcome drink. Hands-on intro to key Indonesian and Balinese ingredients and spice pastes — base gede, base wangi, fresh sambals, coconut, lemongrass and more.
2 · Hands-on cooking (about 1h 45m – 2h)
You cook 4–6 dishes with the chef — beginner-friendly or more advanced depending on the group. You don’t just watch.
3 · Sit-down meal
Everything you cooked is plated and eaten together at your villa table. You cooked it — now you eat every dish.
4 · Diploma + recipes + clean-up
Presentation of a personalised myCHEF Indonesian Cooking Diploma (name + date). Printed recipe cards for a normal home kitchen. Full kitchen clean-up.
Uniforms and chef hats are on every guest for the cooking block. The kitchen you rented is the classroom; the table you already have is the restaurant. When the chef leaves, the counters are clean.
The flavour engine of the island
Base Genep — Bali’s Master Spice Paste
Ask a Balinese cook what makes the island’s food taste like Bali and the answer is one thing: base genep (also written base gede) — the “complete spice paste” that sits under almost every savoury dish. In your class you don’t just measure it — you build it, pounding it by hand in a cobek and ulekan. That is what the recipe cards are for.
The photo on this page is the actual mise en place: whole roots next to the minced bowls, a small “Bumbu Genep” card on the marble. You learn the ingredients, then you cook with the paste you made. Full breakdown: Base genep, explained ingredient by ingredient.
Cook base genep from scratch — book your class Get quote + sample menu →
On request — not a separate title product
Vegan Cooking Class Bali — Same Class, Plant-Forward Menu
A vegan cooking class Bali with myCHEF is the same private villa class (2.5 or 3 hours), with a plant-forward menu when you brief it at enquiry — not a different published program.
Typical request menu: base gede, gado-gado with peanut sauce, tempeh or tofu sate, lawar sayur, nasi kuning, fruit and coconut dessert.
Vegetarian, gluten-free, allergy notes and milder spice are taken the same way at enquiry. Read vegan & vegetarian Balinese cooking. Sushi-only stays on sushi masterclass.
WhatsApp a vegan or vegetarian brief Get quote + sample menu →
Chef comes to you
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In-villa · chef comes to you
What’s Included
2.5 or 3 hours at the villa
Introduction, hands-on cooking of 4–6 dishes, sit-down meal of everything you cooked. No 5–6.5 hour school day.
Personalised diploma
Every guest receives a myCHEF Indonesian Cooking Diploma — name + date.
Uniforms & chef hats
Full sets for every guest.
You eat every dish
You cook the menu, then eat the full meal together.
Recipe cards
Printed cards written for a normal home kitchen.
Chef comes to you
Your villa kitchen. No school shuttle, no shared bench.
Ingredients included
All ingredients are in the class price — not groceries at cost. Kitchen left spotless.
Island-wide at the villa
Canggu, Seminyak, Sanur, Ubud (your villa), Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua, Kuta — always your kitchen.
What you pay for — and what you do not
What’s Included in a myCHEF Cooking Class
The class is in-villa. The chef comes to you. The published villa program includes:
- Professional chef instructor at your villa
- All ingredients (in the class price — not groceries at cost)
- Full set of uniforms and chef hats for every guest
- Hands-on instruction: intro + cooking + meal
- The complete meal of everything you cook
- Personalised myCHEF Indonesian Cooking Diploma for each participant (name + date)
- Recipe cards for a normal home kitchen
- Full kitchen clean-up
Not included: wine, hotel pickup, a market minibus, a kids tariff, or a named-chef request. Larger groups are staffed so everyone stays active.
Dietary needs — vegan, gluten-free, allergies, milder spice — are taken at enquiry. Children who join are extra guests on the same class. For kids menus see kids menus; for a kids party production see kids birthday chef party.
Why IDR 700,000++ min 4 is not a IDR 350,000 school ticket
Cooking Class Cost — From IDR 700,000++ per Person
From IDR 700,000++ per person. Minimum 4 guests. All-in is IDR 847,000 per person (base × 1.21). The 4-guest floor is IDR 3,388,000 all-in. ++ is 11% government tax + 10% service — your written proposal shows the all-in total.
Couples (2 guests): billed at IDR 1,400,000++ per person — the same 4-guest floor (IDR 2,800,000++ / IDR 3,388,000 all-in). The class is not a half-price couple ticket.
Typical shared-school tickets sit around IDR 350,000–530,000 per person. That price buys a place on a bench of 10–18, a set menu, pickup and often a morning market. The 700k villa rate buys a private chef in your kitchen, ingredients for your group, 4–6 dishes you actually eat, a diploma and a clean kitchen — with no transfer time. You are not paying double for the same product. You are paying for a different one. We do not try to undercut a 350k school ticket.
This class is never a private-chef day rate. If you also want a chef to cook for you on other days, that is a separate booking on the homepage. See published tables on pricing.
Tell us the headcount when you enquire. Children who join are extra guests on the same class — there is no kids tariff. We do not publish a named-chef list on this page; the class is staffed from the in-villa team.
Book at least two days ahead. Last-minute / short-lead bookings need full payment to confirm the chef and date.
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Chef comes to you · island-wide · two days’ notice
Where We Come — Your Villa, Not a School
The chef comes to you. Coverage is island-wide. The classroom is always your villa kitchen — never a shared school, never someone else’s poolside classroom, never an on-property hotel class. Two days’ notice.
Cooking class Canggu
A cooking class Canggu is the same private Indonesian class in your Berawa, Batu Bolong, Echo Beach or Pererenan villa. The chef comes to you. No drive to a school kitchen. 2.5 or 3 hours. From IDR 700,000++ per person, min 4 (all-in IDR 847,000 pp). Canggu is a villa area on this page, not a school brand.
Cooking class Seminyak
A cooking class Seminyak runs in your Petitenget, Oberoi, Batu Belig or beach-strip villa. Same private class, 2.5 or 3 hours. No hotel pickup. From IDR 700,000++ per person, min 4 (all-in IDR 847,000 pp). Couples: IDR 1,400,000++ per person. Seminyak is a villa area — the class does not leave the house.
Villa in Ubud — we come to you
Ubud is where most visitors first meet the idea of a Bali cooking class, and where the well-known group schools sit (market walk, free pickup, shared bench, a 5–6.5 hour day). That SERP is not this product. We are not a cooking school in Ubud.
If your villa is in Ubud — Sayan, Penestanan, Campuhan, Tegallalang or Ubud central — the chef comes to that kitchen. Same private Indonesian / Balinese class, 2.5 or 3 hours. Only your guests. From IDR 700,000++ per person, min 4 (all-in IDR 847,000 pp).
Sanur, Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua, Kuta
A cooking class Sanur is the same in-villa product. The same class also runs in Uluwatu, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua and Kuta: chef comes to you, 2.5 or 3 hours, 4–6 dishes, eat what you cooked, diploma. From IDR 700,000++ per person, min 4. Tell us the villa pin. Browse locations and experiences.
Who books a cooking class
Who It’s For
Couples. Popular for honeymoons and date nights. Pricing is the 4-guest minimum: IDR 1,400,000++ per person (IDR 2,800,000++ / IDR 3,388,000 all-in). Not a half-price couple ticket.
Families. Kids who join are extra guests on the same class — no separate kids tariff. See kids menus and kids birthday chef party if you want a kids production rather than this class.
Friends and villa groups. Same 2.5 or 3-hour class, same inclusions. Larger groups are staffed so everyone stays active.
Wedding stays. The class can be its own day — quoted on its own, not as the wedding dinner. Pair a later event day with wedding catering.
Already hiring a chef? Add the class as a separately quoted session on another day. Chef hire for other days is a homepage booking — never a day-rate on this page.
Name + date printed for each guest
Diploma, Uniforms & Recipe Cards
Every guest leaves with a personalised myCHEF Indonesian Cooking Diploma (name + date), printed recipe cards written for a normal home kitchen, and the uniforms and chef hats worn during the class. The certificate below is a filled guest diploma — Cristina Goldin, Balinese cooking class, 8 August 2026 — not a blank mock-up.
The handshake photo is the same villa class: chef and guest, diploma in hand, kitchen island behind them. Instruction is professional; the atmosphere is the villa you rented.
Two days’ notice
How to Book
1. WhatsApp us at least two days ahead. Villa area, guest count (including any children as extra guests), dietary needs, date, 2.5-hour or 3-hour, and start time.
2. We propose the class. Written outline: dishes, 2.5 or 3-hour structure, kitchen needs, all-in quote (++ shown as a fixed, itemised total). Ingredients are in the class price.
3. Confirm. Book at least two days ahead. Last-minute / short-lead bookings need full payment to confirm the chef and date.
4. We shop and set up. The chef shops first, then comes to your villa. No hotel pickup. No market minibus.
5. You cook — then you eat — then diploma + clean-up.
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Wedding catering
Wedding dinner is a separate day from this class.
Kids Birthday Chef Party
Kids cooking party at the villa — a different booking.
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Pricing
Published rates across myCHEF services.
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WhatsApp villa area, guest count, date, and 2.5-hour or 3-hour. We reply with a sample menu and the all-in total.
Published rates are ++ — 10% service charge and 11% government tax are added to the listed price. Your quote is always confirmed as a fixed, itemised all-in total before you commit.