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Best LMS for Culinary & Cooking Instructors

Start selling cooking courses from your own site for free.

Masteriyo is the all-in-one LMS plugin built for culinary & cooking instructors who’d rather develop recipes than wrestle with checkout pages, plugin stacks, and platform fees.

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Home Cooking Foundations
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Kitchen Setup 1/3
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Knife skills
Recipe pack (PDF)
Knife Skills 0/5
Cooking Methods 0/6
Flavor & Seasoning 0/5
Final Meal & Certificate 0/2
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Why culinary & cooking instructors move to WordPress

Stop building your cooking school on someone else’s platform.

Hosted course platforms work fine when you’re testing the idea. But once your cooking teaching practice is real, WordPress gives you ownership, lower fees, and room to grow at your own pace.

Stop sharing every sale with MasterClass.

Hosted platforms keep raising fees as your audience grows. Masteriyo runs checkout natively on your WordPress site — no marketplace cuts, no transaction fees.

Own your student relationships.

Your audience, email list, enrollments, and student progress stay connected to your brand — not locked behind a platform’s login screen.

One plugin, not five.

Lessons, quizzes, certificates, payments, drip content, and student tracking — all handled inside one WordPress LMS. No fragile chain of add-ons.

Sample course structure

Your first cooking course, live this afternoon.

Structure your curriculum the way students actually learn: short technique walkthroughs and recipe demonstrations, guided practice, downloadable recipe packs, and progress checkpoints. Drop in your own videos, customize the modules, and you’re enrolling students.

Video lessons for technique walkthroughs and recipe demonstrations
PDF lessons for recipe packs and reference cards
Quizzes for techniques, methods, and flavors
Certificates when students finish your program

COURSE PREVIEW

Home Cooking Foundations

5 modules · 28 lessons · 3 quizzes · Certificate

MODULE 01

Kitchen Setup

5 video lessons
Tool guide

MODULE 02

Knife Skills

5 video lessons
Knife quiz

MODULE 03

Cooking Methods

7 video lessons
Method quiz

MODULE 04

Flavor & Seasoning

5 video lessons
Flavor reference

MODULE 05

Final Meal & Certificate

Final meal review
Certificate of completion

What you can do

A real cooking course business needs more than a video uploader.

Sell, teach, manage, and grow your cooking school from one WordPress LMS plugin.

Build your cooking curriculum.

Drag-and-drop modules, lessons, videos, downloadable recipe packs, and quizzes from a single dashboard. No code, no theme fights.

Accept payments natively.

Sell with Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Mollie, or WooCommerce. Multi-currency built in so students from any country pay in their local money.

Quiz students on techniques and flavors.

Nine question types. Auto-grade knife technique, cooking methods, and seasoning balance — without manual checking.

Issue certificates on completion.

Branded, downloadable certificates students can share when they finish your cooking program. Add your logo, your wording, your style.

Drip lessons week by week.

Release modules on a schedule for multi-week cooking programs. Builds anticipation, paces practice, and reduces refunds.

See exactly who’s practicing.

Lesson completion, quiz attempts, recipes cooked — every student’s progress tracked so you know who needs more practice and who’s ready for the next technique.

Start With a Template

Get your website launched in no time with our professionally designed website template for your online course. Powered by . Ready to launch with a 1-click import.

Start using this template today by installing the FREE theme.

Plus dozens more starter sites to choose from.

Pricing fit

Start free. Upgrade when your cooking school starts growing.

Most culinary & cooking instructors launch with the free plugin, then upgrade to Pro when they need certificates, drip content, advanced quizzes, or course bundles.

Free

Always free

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Free forever · WordPress.org

Perfect for publishing your first cooking course and testing the student experience.

Unlimited courses and students
Drag & drop course builder
Built-in order system
Stripe, PayPal & WooCommerce
AI course creation
Certificate builder
Download free plugin

Basic

Normally $199/yr

$99/yr

For solo creators

For selling paid cooking courses with stronger checkout, certificates, and assignments.

Everything in Free
Course Attachments
Course Preview
Webhooks
Premium updates
Premium support
Get Basic
Most Popular

Pro

Normally $299/yr

$149/yr

For growing schools

For multi-course schools using drip content, bundles, gradebook, and advanced quizzes.

Everything in Basic
Smart Coupons
Multiple instructors
Advanced quizzes & gradebook
More payment gateways
Marketing Tools
Get Pro

Special introductory pricing. All renewals at full price.

14-day money-back guarantee
No transaction fees
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Creator voices

Creators chose Masteriyo — and didn’t look back.

130+ five-star reviews across WordPress.org and G2.

“Masteriyo will set the standard for not only how course builders should be built, but plugins in general. The ease, simplicity, beauty, and speed are unmatched.”

— @ej2008

WordPress.org review

“Masteriyo is a true dark horse — lesser known than TutorLMS, LearnDash, or LifterLMS, but just as powerful, if not more so.”

— @bradtech

WordPress.org review

“Very easy to use and intuitive. I was impressed by everything it can do at such a reasonable cost.”

— Beverley D.

G2 review

FAQ

The questions culinary & cooking instructors ask.

Can I sell cooking courses online directly from WordPress?

Yes. Masteriyo gives you a complete LMS — course builder, lessons, quizzes, payments, and student management — all on your own WordPress site. No hosted platform, no per-sale cuts.

Can I include recipe packs, technique videos, and equipment guides?

Yes. Add downloadable lesson materials alongside your videos, quizzes, and text lessons. Students get everything they need in one place.

Do I need WooCommerce or a separate payment plugin?

No. Masteriyo includes native payments via Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, and Mollie out of the box. WooCommerce is optional if you already use it.

Can I release lessons week by week?

Yes. Content drip lets you schedule modules for multi-week cooking programs — useful for keeping students paced and reducing refunds.

Do I need technical skills to set up my course site?

No. Masteriyo is built for creators, not developers. The setup wizard creates every page you need in under a minute — checkout, dashboard, course pages, all auto-configured. If you can run a WordPress site, you can run Masteriyo.

Build your cooking course business on your own terms.

Join 4,000+ creators running paid courses on their own WordPress sites. No platform fees. No middleman. Just your teaching, your students, your revenue.

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