FIRE UP THOSE EASY BAKE OVENS

Now you can go to Top Chef culinary school... excuse us, University...... 24/7, at any time,  online.

On the Bravo website, just enroll.  Make the option for a monthly ($24.95) or yearly ($199.95) payment plan.  

And this is what is offered:

* Complete coursework from basics to masters, it's like a live culinary school in your own home

* More than 60 hours of instructional videos, created by Top Chef University

* One-on-one training with your favorite Top Cheftestants

* Learn from America's up and coming chefs

Some of the instructors are:  hottie Spike Mendelsohn, chatty Carla Hall, bacon lover Kevin Gillespie.

We actually think this is pretty brills of Bravo, the clever audacity to get more money from the viewers.  Cheesy?  Yes.  Tacky?  Yes.  Brilliant?  Very.

What's next: a Project Runway Fashion Institute?

A Real Housewives skank academy?

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Want to read someone's account of the Top Chef University?  Esquire is subjecting a staffer to the lessons and writing a column about it.