With more time at home in your luxury apartment in Houston, TX, you may want to expand on your cooking skills. Luckily, you can enjoy free online classes with Instructables. You'll learn everything from how to make pasta to the science of baking. Here are some great classes to check out.

Canning and Preserving

Discover the skills needed to extend the life of your favorite fruits and vegetables. Instructor Paige Russell explains why food spoils and how you can stop it using the time-honored techniques of canning, preserving, dehydrating, and freezing. The class includes six different lessons. Upon completion, you'll have the "ability to keep the bounty of seasonal harvests on your plate throughout the year."

Pasta Making

Perfect for beginners, pasta making shows how easy it is to make fresh Italian pasta at home. The instructor will walk you through the steps of making different shapes and flavors, both with and without eggs. Dishes include spinach ravioli, fettuccine with a creamy pesto sauce, and hand-shaped pasta with a classic tomato sauce. You will also get a history lesson about the role of pasta making in Italian history.

Cooking with Meat

If you are looking for ways to change up how you prepare meat, then this class is for you. It covers an array of topics ranging from dry-aging to which cuts of meat are best for cooking on different heat sources. In the first lesson, you'll learn about the various cooking tools and discover a secret ingredient that most people never think about. By the seventh and final class, you will have made everything from steak to smoked meat. You can learn at your own pace.

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