I need a hobby thatll help me impress the ladies. I dont really know why but being able to cook is a huge plus to women for some reason. I work out a lot so itll be a useful skill for meal prep too. How do I go about acquiring this skill?
>>31691175Ethan Chlebowski for experts, Adam Raguesa's early content for noobs. It's good to look around and learn from different schools and time periods and places though.
part 2: Project Zomboid taught me cooking is one of the few skills you can learn by watching tv, but watch people who talk about the food, not just make meme videos about food from movies or tv shows without explaining every step.
saute an onion in butter on a cast iron skillet. add some awesome ingredients. bam, you know more about cooking than most of your competitors. extrapolate this and do some variation with guidance from recipes. farmer's breakfast? saute the onion, a bell pepper, some potatoes maybe, and pork sausage. whisk a few eggs together, pour it on, and scramble until done. add cheese. just do that over and over, then start to branch out to soup, adding broth to a pot with cheap cuts of beef. experiment. get messy. you'll be cooking in no time.
>>31691212i might make a farmer's breakfast this week with smoothies
>>31691175Watch YouTubeBut don't get over ambitiousLearn to cook your favorite things to eat firstDon't try making sauces or fancy shit like meringues until you know the basics
>>31691175for weight control i recommend carmelizing like six onions, mixing it with beans and an entire thing of garlic, and just adding like a little meat to it. if you jar this it will actually taste better over time too as it marinates in he fridge, then you can bake or boil a potatoes and mix the together for easy meals whenever. just don't let it stay in the fridge for more than a week i think but adding a lot of salt and olive oil probably makes it last a bit better.
cooking is insanely easy is not like math or programming. just watch the YouTube and do what they do and over half the time it turns out right
>>31691314seconding this. cooking has relatively large margins of error compared to say carpentry. unless you're baking, amounts don't need to be exact, temps can be in a 30 degree F range, and the worst that can happen is you burn your house down.
>>31691175Old video but still the best take, if your mindset's right, cooking becomes really fucking easyhttps://youtu.be/Vp8vd4X3IGg?si=LwnaX0IYnd-H1sLY
