If children cooked every meal, lunch would be hot dogs, and dinner would be Lego helmets. Today's Groupon teaches culinary skills to the youth of today, who are the former children of tomorrow with today’s Groupon for children’s cooking classes at Young Chefs Academy in Irvine. Choose from the following class options:

• For $15, you get one junior or senior chef cooking class (a $30 value)
• For $59, you get a one-month chef club membership, which includes one junior or senior chef cooking class per week (a $134 value)

Young Chefs Academy provides a fun, safe, and motivating environment for kids to become acquainted with the art of food and food presentation. Engaging chef instructors instill lessons of kitchen etiquette and safety in youngsters growing up in a world full of laser can-openers and sharp pasta rakes, giving children a capable handle on their surroundings as they journey into the land of food. Peruse the junior and senior chef classes designed to educate a variety of age groups, with specially catered classes for miniature line cooks that combine nutritional meals with basic food-prep skills. Senior gastronomers are offered advanced classes that dig deeper into kitchen secrets and hone specific skills and techniques that expand the parameters of cooking creativity. Check the schedule, and use the month-long membership to choose a class per week for four consecutive weeks for your nascent culinarians. Eligible junior and senior classes last 90 minutes.

The lessons learned from early cuisine classes spark a valuable communion between a child and a stove. Imaginations stretch as students contemplate the infinite possibilities that exist among ingredients, spices, and food presentations so astute they beg to be stapled to the refrigerator door.