Cooking

My son wants to be a chef. He started with YouTube vids and I swear in a few weeks he was in the kitchen chopping and cooking up a storm. The food is pretty damned good, too. His school offers a culinary elective that he's supposed to start in the fall, but no word yet on how COVID will affect things. He's 15, BTW.
 
$uperman said:
I want to learn to cook.

What is the best way to learn cooking?

Reading cook books or trail and error or following a cooking course?
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Trail and error for sure
Just get somebody who knows how to cook to leave a trail of jelly beans to follow so you don’t get lost
 
Learn about the basics, stuff like low/high flame, when to use cooking oil, searing, steaming, etc. And then start off by preparing a basic and difficult to fuck up dish like grilled salmon and a salad, chicken and rice, spaghetti with tomato sauce...stuff like that. Once you nail those dishes to perfection, move on to somehitng a bit more technical or elaborate.In just a few months you should have a decent list of dishes under your repertoire. Youtube videos always help, but it's not until you actually prepare the meals that you will learn.
 
It's just a matter of experience. The more you do, the more you learn. Doesn't matter where you learn from, whether it's by cookbook, YouTube, the Food Network, grandma, whatever.
 
I learned how to cook by working in alot of restaurants and I'm basically a chef now. I can do anything. But that's years of work.

I'd suggest learning how to use a knife, buying a nice one and keeping it sharp. Nice big cutting boards.

I hate electric stoves. That makes things alot harder. Watch cooking videos
 
My mum taught me to cook, plus when Youtube came around there's a lot of stuff on there. The book below is honestly the best cookbook I've ever used, cooked at least half of the recipes I reckon. It's accessible and got a great variety of all sorts of stuff.

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There's a cookbook called "The Joy of Cooking" that I think everyone should have. It's touches a little on everything in a general and easily digestible way.

Chef John (foodwishes.com) has a ton of YouTube recipes and he doesn't drag out how to roast a chicken for 30 minutes. He's concise, entertaining, & has a wide variety of recipes.

Be careful on YouTube though, it can be a roll of the dice when it comes to finding decently produced videos.

And trial & error\getting your hands dirty is going to be the only way to really learn anything.

I wouldn't water money on cooking school unless you plan on cooking professionally... There's more than enough free information out there
 
fingercuffs said:
By talking to me or @DoctorTaco . Ask me anything.
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Hello Fingercuffs.

I want to learn how to cook, but my mother lives nearby and she cooks delicious and healthy foods. So almost every day I eat dinner at my mom’s house. Sometimes my mother and I cook dinner in the weekend. So, I can cut vegetables and those kind of things.

But the biggest problem is I do not have the incentive to cook at home because I eat dinner at my mother’s house.
 
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