The kitchen is statistically the most dangerous room in a home because it contains the highest concentration of knives, open flames, and pots full of semi-living lobsters. Learn to navigate this danger zone with today's Groupon to Rouxbe Cooking School, an online culinary prep school for aspiring epicureans. Choose between the following options:

• For $44, you get three months of online cooking classes (an $89.85 value).
• For $99, you get one year of online cooking classes (a $239.95 value).

Rouxbe Cooking School sharpens the blades of at-home cooks of all skill levels with more than 70 online cooking lessons and hundreds of instructional video recipes. Students learn step-by-step techniques, such as pan-frying and brining methods, from the 8- to 15-minute lessons at their own pace. Online recipes provide ample opportunities for new chefs to master their burgeoning skills for edible events of all persuasions, from sit-down family meals to stand-up hoverboard dinner parties. Progress reports, quizzes, online forums, and bouts of fire-walking ensure that sauté-mastering students stay on task. For peskier questions of chicken or egg nature, students can receive personalized answers from Rouxbe professional chefs.

Rouxbe was developed in partnership with Northwest Culinary Academy, an accredited culinary school in Vancouver, and is used by many schools and organizations as part of their culinary training programs. With the philosophy that mastering basic skills and techniques enable home cooks to make thousands of recipes, the staff imparts fundamental knowledge in the hopes of creating a legion of cavalier culinary crusaders to fight the packaged-food mutants of forthcoming generations. Rouxbe's website and instructional cooking videos are compatible with iPads, iPhones, and iEyes. Check out sample videos here.