23 and I wanna learn to cook for myself.I can already make rice and fry eggs and meat but thats all I really know.I wanna see if theres more that I can learn and do. Give a fren some help
>>21108545https://www.youtube.com/@BBCMaestroit's exactly what you think it is
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>>21108545More for specific recipes but I’ll use highly rated stuff from the nytimes recipe section, the King Arthur flour site, and allrecipes.Also the Internet archive has a bunch of cookbooks:https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=cookbook&sort=-downloads
jacques pepin la techniquethomas keller's masterclass and his book bouchonmarcella hazan's essential italian cooking
>>21108545Watch a bunch of YT. Basics with Babish, Glen and Friends, and so on.
>>21108545https://antonio-carluccio.co.uk/recipes/https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/chefs/antonio_carluccioSome vids as well on various Youtube channels.Books from Phaidon are usually very good.https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Kitchen/dp/0714862568Very good recipes online, look for Paul Bocuse, Joel Robuchon, Nancy Singleton, Alice Waters, Michel Roux Senior, Thomas Keller. Some might be a bit advanced, others very easy.
>>21108545Go find a copy of Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer. It's considered the most popular cookbook in the United States and is almost 100 years old. Learning to cook is all about following directions. Learn to follow directions, and you can learn to cook anything.
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watch Iron Chef (japan) from start to finish. Chop shit up and cook it. Observe the process.The only real way is through experience, but this can be hastened through conscious, careful observation.Best of luck OP, cooking your own food is very empowering. If you ever go backpacking, it's also a great way to get lots of puss.
>>21108545I learned to cook from youtube videos when I started living alone, and I've never read cookbooks because I can't read.
>>21108545Google Chef Jacques Pépin. Comfy, well explained recipes.He's meme but Chef John has had a ton of good videos over the years.
>>21108545"Flour Water Salt Yeast" is a great source for beginner baking. America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated have a great Youtube channel and good cookbooks, for beginners. I still use them for desserts because that is my great weakness.
What does /ck/ think of Mastering the Art of French Cooking? I have Joy of Cooking and a lot of America’s Test Kitchen books, and I want to acquire more of the essential cookbooks.
>>21110243 Child tends to have fairly baroque recipes, even for her type of French cooking. Its generally a bit outdated in some choice of cuts or how they're cooked. You'll still learn a lot from it.
Sauces by James Peterson is the first serious cookbook I ever got. It borrows a lot from On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee. On Food and Cooking is less of a cookbook and more of a philosophical text on how to think about food and how to approach cooking. It is extremely influential in modern culinary circles, and is very useful to read from the perspective of learning about how modern chefs think about cooking and perparing food. However, if you're well acquainted with J Kenji Lopez-Alt, Dan Souza, or other common sources for 'technical cooking' advice, you probably are familiar with most of its lessons. But going to the source is always gratifying.
Start with the basics, buy jarred sauces at the store for things like stir fries, curries like chicken khorma, look up on youtube how to dice vegetables like onions, carrots, celery, research terminology like braising, sauteeing, think about what foods you want to eat or dishes you liked before that want to make, it could be anything from making your own deep fried fish to spaghetti and meatballs.I use youtube for about 99% of my cooking knowledge, the rest is googling celebrity chefs that I saw on TV, and like a handful of things I learned from living with other people and watching them cook, and of course my grandparents/parents.
