Creating a meal from scratch is both challenging and delicious, much like playing "Stairway to Heaven" on a clarinet made out of a candy cane. Master meal-melding with today's Groupon to Chef Todd Mohr's Web Cooking Classes. Choose from the following options:

• For $49, you get a lifetime membership (a $349 value).
• For $19, you get a four-month membership (a $149 value).

Local chef and YouTube personality Todd Mohr blends food-prep tips with upbeat humor in fun, easy-to-follow online classes. Invite Mohr into your kitchen or crawlspace at any time, and he'll transform the computer into a vaudevillian theater in each 20- to 30-minute segment. Chefs-in-training will master basic concepts such as egg scrambling and pancake flipping; meanwhile, Mohr emphasizes whole foods and healthy cooking methods—teaching the class how to plan nutritious, money-saving meals weeks at a time. A new lesson arrives every seven days alongside an assignment, advice from fellow learners, and a carrier pigeon that submits questions directly to the chef.

In between stirs, budding foodsmiths can access an array of members-only resources for 20 weeks with a four-month membership or for the remaining span of their earthly existence with the lifetime membership, from kitchen-tool checklists to videos that explain the difference between home cooking and spray tanning a slab of beef.