Kitchen 911
For the thing in your kitchen that keeps going wrong.
There are a million recipes on the internet.
None of them are standing in your kitchen when the sauce breaks.
It starts with 90 minutes in your kitchen.
Not our kitchen.
Not a studio with better pans than yours.
The kitchen where dinner actually happens, because that's where the problem lives,
And that's where the fix has to work.
Plan on 90 minutes to two hours. We'd rather run long than leave the problem half-diagnosed.
Here's How It Goes:
1. We listen.
What do you keep trying to make? Where does it go wrong?
The shopping, the timing, the heat? How many times have you tried?
This part matters more than you'd think. Most cooking problems are misdiagnosed.
2. We look.
Your stove, your pans, your pantry. Sometimes the problem isn't you at all. It's a skillet that's wrong for the job, or an ingredient you didn't know you were missing.
Ten minutes of looking saves months of guessing.
3. You cook.
Not us. You.
We take the dish you're stuck on, and you cook the very first part of it, with us next to you.
Just the beginning. The part where it usually goes wrong.
4. You get homework.
Before we leave, you know exactly what to practice and how many times to practice.
Real homework, specific and small.
5. You get homework.
Within a few days, a written plan lands in your inbox.
What we found, what to work on and in what order, which of us should be standing next to you for each step, and what to have ready before we come.
If you never book another session, the plan is still yours.
It's a map, not a teaser.
We should be honest about one thing.
We will not cook you a beautiful dinner and leave. That's another service we offer.
It's called a Private dinner.
This one ends with you being able to do something you couldn't do that morning.
Together, no pressure, and only if you want to.
Our Packages
One visit fixes a dish.
A package fixes the pattern.
The consultation gets you started. But cooking doesn't become yours in one afternoon.
It becomes yours through repetition, with someone catching the small things before they become habits. That's what the packages are for.
Choose by where you want to end up, not by the numbers.
The 3-Session Package — $795
One skill, yours for good.
We take the thing that keeps defeating you - dry chicken, broken sauces, rice that never comes out twice the same...
We work on it until you can cook it without a recipe and turn it into three different dinners.
(Example)
Session 1: Get it right
Session 2: Take it to two new places
Session 3: You cook the third one yourself. We just watch and fine-tune.
$265 per session. Use within 6 months.
The 5-Session Package — $1,250
Cook for people you love, without panic
Everything in the 3-session package and then the part nobody teaches: Timing. Running three dishes at once. Deciding what to make when the fridge is half-empty.
By session five, you run a full practice dinner - as if guests were coming - with us in the room and your name on the meal.
This package isn't really about food. It's about being the person who says "come over, I'll cook" and means it.
$250 per session. Use within 6 months.
Prefer to take it one visit at a time?
Single sessions are $295.
Most people who start with one end up wishing they'd picked a destination.
But the door's open either way!
Why 6 months? Because a package you never finish helps no one. Six months is enough time for real life to happen, and short enough that "someday" becomes a date on the calendar.
Two teachers, one kitchen.
Kitchen 911 is both of us - Aric and Yukari.
Aric is the professional: twenty-plus years of restaurant kitchens, knife skills, heat control, the why behind every technique.
Yukari is the home cook who learned everything the hard way - including how to make dinner out of whatever's actually in the fridge, and how to stop a plan from falling apart at 6 pm.
Between the two of us, there isn't much a home kitchen can throw that one of us hasn't already fought with.
We both come to your consultation.
From there, whoever fits your problem best is the one standing next to you.
FAQ
Please feel free to contact us at info@unipersonalchef.com if you have more questions!
Kitchen 911 Frequently asked questions
Tell us what keeps going wrong.
That's really all we need. A few sentences about the thing that won't work.
The dish, the timing, the fridge, the whole 6 pm situation. Write it the way you'd complain to a friend!