From “can I help?” to “I’ve got dinner.”
A genuine progression for younger cooks — confidence, judgement, palate, safety, organisation and eventually ownership — running beside an adult route towards increasingly ambitious food.
FOUNDING FAMILIES
Help me build the thing
I want Pea to become.
A Founding Family is someone who wants Pea now, believes in where it is going, and is willing to help shape the route there. Your membership funds the next stage of the work; your experience helps stop me building it in a vacuum.
£9.50/ month
Founding rate
Founding rate
Join the first table. You won’t just watch Pea grow — you’ll be in the room where families compare notes, share wins, call out what isn’t working and help decide what deserves building next.
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Turns the next idea into something usable.
It buys research, recipe development, testing, better visuals, better teaching and the time required to build the next level properly rather than just add more recipes.
A programme that should improve after you join.
You can use Pea now. While your membership is active, you also get the new missions, deeper progression and improvements that follow — not a frozen version of what existed on the day you paid.
Keeps Pea honest.
Tell me what worked, what bored them, what was too hard, what was too easy, what you wanted to learn and what dinner actually looked like. That feedback becomes part of the build.
THEMReal capability.
Not pretend jobs. A route towards taste, judgement, confidence and independence.
YOUReal ambition.
Not permanent beginner food. A route towards doughs, sauces, butchery, fermentation, precision and dishes you currently file under “one day”.
TOGETHERReal time.
The ordinary act of making dinner becomes somewhere both of you belong and both of you improve.
THE DEAL, AS I SEE IT
You’re trusting me with more than £9.50.
01I’ll keep researching the way practical skills are learned and update Pea when better evidence or better ideas emerge.
02I’ll keep safety serious without turning the kitchen into somewhere children are scared to touch anything.
03I’ll test ideas against real family life: lateness, hunger, attention, mess, different confidence levels and the fact that dinner still needs to be good.
04I’ll keep the adult’s learning real. The programme should nurture you towards ambitious cooking, not quietly turn you into an activity supervisor.
05I’ll show what changed and why — especially when a family using Pea is the reason.
50
THE FIRST TARGET
The first 50 families matter more than the next 5,000.
When Pea is tiny, I can read the email. I can ask the follow-up question. I can change Tuesday’s mission because Family #12 spotted something I didn’t.
Being early is not a consolation prize. It’s the period where you can leave fingerprints on the thing.
BACK THE BEGINNING
Use it. Push it. Help me make it worth recommending.
Become a Founding Family — £9.50/month →THE PEA TABLE
A community, not a comment box.
Founding Families get access to the Pea community: a practical place to swap ideas, ask questions, show what happened at dinner and tell me what Pea should fix or build next. I want the early families to know each other — not just me.
See the community space →