AEG Cooking Club - founded to introduce consumers to the benefits and convenience of cooking with steam and using the AEG combi-steam oven - has partnered with cooking studio 'De Hooiberg'.
On September 1 this year, cooking studio 'De Hooiberg' will open its doors at a unique location in Zeeland (NB) where the basics of cooking - from farm to plate - are central. It's a premise that fits seamlessly with AEG's philosophy of sustainable, healthy and delicious cooking with waste of as little food as possible. Furnished with top products from the AEG range including SteamPro combi steam ovens, wine coolers and ComboHob hobs with an integrated extractor unit, the cooking studio has been transformed into a beautiful location where sustainable food and cooking take center stage.

From a beautifully renovated haystack, rural among the many vegetable growers near Uden and Zeeland (NB), chef Johnny Moreno Ruiz will start his new cooking studio in September. What makes this cooking studio so unique is not only the beautiful location among all the crops and the special building. It is also the philosophy behind it: from farm to plate.
Johnny: "At our cooking studio, we have a great appreciation for all that grows and flourishes. Our focus is on using honest and fresh ingredients, enriching local produce with a touch of worldly cuisine."
When the season allows, ingredients are taken from the land himself at neighboring horticultural company Compliment or wild picked in the area to then be incorporated into a culinary dish. Johnny has more than 15 years of experience as a chef and has spent the last 10 years working in various higher-end restaurants, including the two-star restaurant 'De Treeswijkhoeve' in Waalre.

During the AEG Cooking Club workshops - which take place every other week on Wednesdays from 2 to 4:30 p.m. - Johnny explains how in an AEG combi-steam oven the tastiest local and fresh ingredients are easily transformed into delicious dishes. Furthermore, the different possibilities of the combi-steam ovens are explained in detail. The participants can then get to work themselves preparing various dishes, which will be enjoyed together afterwards.
Sustainable eating always starts with the basics: do ingredients come from close to home, what is the footprint and how can something healthy and delicious be made from them? The AEG SteamPro combi steam oven adds steam during the cooking process making healthy and delicious food a breeze. Cooking with steam preserves 90% of vitamin C in the food. In addition, less salt and fat is needed during cooking. AEG SteamPro combi steam ovens have more than 20 heating and combination functions - with hot air and sous-vide in addition to steam. But even a classic function such as the pizza function and traditional bottom and/or top heat are not missing. All the techniques used by professional chefs are thus at your fingertips.
In short, there are endless possibilities. Perhaps all this is overwhelming for the novice steam oven chef and that is precisely why everyone can follow a free AEG Cooking Club cooking workshop when purchasing an AEG combi steam oven. This can be done in Alphen aan den Rijn in the AEG Experience Center and from September 1 also at cooking studio 'De Hooiberg' in Zeeland (NB).