If children cooked every meal, lunch would be hot dogs and dinner would be Lego helmets. Today's Groupon teaches culinary skills to the youths 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 between the following options:

• For $15, you get one 90-minute Jr. Chef cooking class (ages 5–12) or Master Chef cooking class (for students who have completed the Jr. Chef program) (a $30 value). Click here for weekly class times.
• For $59, you get a one-month Chefs Club membership, which includes one Jr. or Master Chef cooking class per week for four consecutive weeks (a $120 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. Jr. Chef classes are 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. Experienced gastronomers can take Master Chef classes that dig deeper into kitchen secrets and hone specific skills and techniques that expand the parameters of cooking creativity.

Check the menu of Jr. Chef classes and Master Chef classes and use the one-month membership to choose a class per week for four consecutive weeks for your nascent culinarians. Eligible Jr. and Master Chef 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.