Without the ingenuity of chefs, salt would be used only as a defrosting agent for bland TV dinners. Learn to add flavor to your cooking skills with today's Groupon: for $40, you get a cooking class at Tspoons in San Juan Capistrano (up to an $89 value). This Groupon is good for one student.

Tspoons' experienced chefs impart an earnest love of cooking through myriad hands-on cooking classes. Class sizes of up to 16 foster an intimate atmosphere for student chefs, and instructors willingly substitute ingredients to fit patrons' dietary restrictions. Learn to add zing to dishes without flambéing a book of Rodney Dangerfield jokes in Bring on the Heat: Cooking with Chiles, which experiments with peppery dishes such as thai bird chili, stuffed poblano chilis, and chocolate ancho-chili crème brûlée. Fluffy lemon-meringue pies, apple turnovers, and cream puffs tempt sweet teeth during the All-time Favorite Desserts tutorial, and the Essential Knife Skills and Cooking Basics harps on techniques for roasting, grilling, sautéing, and baking. As the courses come to a close, Tspoons gathers classmates to dig into the fruits of their hard work like kindergartners on macaroni-art day.