Like learning to juggle, learning to cook requires patience, a distraction-free environment, and the ability to handle multiple eggplants at once. Become the ringmaster of your kitchen with today's Groupon: for $29, you get a Culinary Forum cooking-demonstration class at The Viking Center in Wallingford (a $60 value).

The Viking Center's esteemed chefs demonstrate a lineup of repeatable kitchen craftwork using high-quality Viking kitchen products. Theater lights and a wireless sound system project chefs' skills onto classes of 25–30 onlookers during installments such as "All About Duck" with Chef Bob Ambrose of Bella Bella Gourmet on October 10, and Mark Shadle's "Delicious, Healthy and Vegan" on November 7, both of which induce drooling promptly at 6:30 p.m. Students can scribble down copious notes about how to deep-freeze a steak with one icy glance as they delight in a complimentary beverage and tastings.