how do you learn to cook?im a complete retard that can be trusted to cook an egg properly but i find cooking really fun regardless of how shit the food isbut i want to be able to cook good enough for myself and otherswhat are some beginner recipes that are good for retards to start off with, also what are some resources to develop your skills off of?the tools i have on hand are some stainless steel pots/pans, some steel trays for my oven, and various knives and suchI'm willing to spend 20-30$ getting the groceries for what ever recipe ill try
>>22007275Just do it faggot Ideally supervised by someone who actually knows how to cook so you don't ruin every recipe you try
>>22007295Wow that's really rude and uncalled forI bet you get all your meals takeout and are just jealous of OP's childlike innocenceEveryone will laugh at you now, then forget about you.
>>22007275What an easy recipe? It's Cinco de Mayo, make tacos. Brown some ground beef, make it super easy by buying a pack of taco seasoning and dump it in there. May have to add some water if you're beef is super dry, not much. Can be as extravagant as you like. Get some tortillas, I like yellow corn. Heat them up in a skillet. To make tacos like how I eat them dice a hot onion, slice and avocado, click a lime, slice a radish, put beef on tortilla along with toppings I have my own taco seasoning blend but a store bought pack will do alright. If you want to make tacos like a gringo you need flour tortillas, a tomato(diced), and onion(diced), lettuce(shredded), and some combination of shredded cheese, sour cream, salsa and/or taco sauce. Depends on what you like, bitch.You can also make mexican restaruant style rice easy. Ling grain rice, frozen peas and carrots, rice, onion, garlic, chicken broth(you can get a special bullion that is chicken and tomato which is a staple for mexican food), tomato paste, rotel(or a can of diced tomatoes+can of diced chilis). The trick is you have to sautee the onions, garlic, and also the rice. You want the rice to just start to change color, then you mix in the tomato paste with the rice, cook for another couple of minutes then add everything else. Stir, get to a simmer, cover the pot and reduce the heat to low. Cook as long as your rice needs to cook, usually 15-20 minutes then remove from heat and let it sit 5+ minutes without taking the lid off. Never remove the lid from rice when you're cooking it like this, you need to contain the steam.
>>22007322OP admits to being a retard at cooking and asks for help on /ck/. Then other anon tells him to "just do it" aka pick an easy recipe, get the ingredients and make it. If anything your comment is rude and uncalled for. >>22007275What do you enjoy eating OP?
>>22007347>What do you enjoy eating OP?Cocks
>>22007350xD you made me laugh out loud with your comment roflmao omg lololol
OP, just make scumgullet, AKA Uncle Heinrich's Slippery Sloppa Surprise.>1 lb ground beef>1 lb any small pasta (elbows, small shells, orzo)>1 big can tomato soup>1 carton broth (any variety)>seasonings (salt, pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasoning)>1/2 lb American cheese or VelveetaGet a pot on the stove and put it on medium high. Add the beef and mash it with a spoon to crumble it up. Continue cooking it until the pink color is gone. If there's a lot of fat, get a spoon and remove as much as you want. Can also soak it up with paper towels.Add the pasta, soup, and broth. Leave the heat up and stir it around. Add your seasonings (start with 1 tsp of each). If you have some Worcestershire or A1 sauce, pour a little bit in. When the pot is bubbling, drop the heat to low and put a cover on it. Every 5 minutes, stir it around so it doesn't stick to the bottom. The pasta will absorb the broth and the whole thing should be done after about 15 minutes. If it's too dry when you go to stir, add a cup of water and let it absorb. When it's cooked to your liking, add the cheese and stir it in so it melts - another 5 minutes. You just made homemade Hamburger Helper.
>>22007322OP is almost certainly above the age of 20. It's not cute as a man to just be a clueless retard.
>>22007275keep working on eggs. if you can cook all the types of eggs correctly you can cook anything.
>>22007275>how do you learn to cook?you watch your parents do it as a kid and imitate them when grown up
Wish I could do something like go to the CIA but just to learn.
>>22007275you just do it. just practice. you learn from getting in the kitchen and cooking and not being afraid to make mistakes, because you will make mistakes, but just keep going. don't worry about "beginner recipes". all recipes are for beginners. just cook things you want to eat, that's what will motivate you. there is no roadmap. when you're following recipes, think about what you're doing and why, think about how it relates to other recipes you've made and what you could apply from one recipe to another. don't just follow recipes blindly.
>>22007797Good postEggs teach heat control, versatile, and take additional ingredients well
>>22007275Start with things that come together from staple ingredientsOmeletSandwich (blt; melt; chicken salad)Ham and beans (or split pea soup)Spaghetti with meat saucePot roast
Make something you like. Italian is a pretty good place to start if you like pasta. It's very hard to make a baked ziti or pasta that isn't awesome. Making your own spaghetti sauce is easy and better too. I like the NY Times baked ziti recipe it's 10/10. You can Google it if you want
>>22007816Most parents who give a shit and are intelligent, will actually teach their kids to cook. >>22007347Threads like this always irritate me when the OP doesn’t even share these details.
go to waffle house. they make the basics nearly retard proof, you train on first shift for a couple weeks, learn some basics of cook times, steak temps, get to flip hashbrowns for practicing your utensils, a few ways to cook eggs. depending which shift does preparation you learn to not burn the gravy, grits, or chili, why you add ingredients in the order you dothere is a "waffle house way" every stupid operation in the business
>>22007275Start by making Hamburger Helper and Pillsbury Croissants with some Betty Crocker brownies.That will at least teach you a lot of basics for using your oven and stove and the boxes include the recipes and steps.Come back if you've done at least that much and you'll probably get better advice that you at least understand.
>>22007275For mirepoix, learn to cut onions, celery, and carrots. Learn to saute veggies and meats like mirepoix and ground beef. Learn how to use the salt that you buy to season in proper amounts; I use cheap small iodine salt but you can also use the bigger salts that are easier/safer to use if you wanna spend the extra dollar or two. Most main-meal recipes rely on the veggies, knowing how to saute, and most importantly to season or flavour.Pasta dishes are easy af to start off with. Could start off with browning your ground meat, sauteeing the veggies, adding your canned tomatoes or jarred sauce, seasoning, and simmering. Boil pasta noodles and watch them after at least 6 min (unless they're super small or thin, then less) and keep tasting them until they're as soft as you want them to be. Rice is just as easy to make as boiled pasta noodles. Most meat and veggie dishes are good with rice. And with leftover old rice, you could make fried rice the next day. Chicken soup is simple and boring, but it's info on how to make good homemade chicken stock.Literally just choose something you want to make first, like go on tik tok or insta or reddit and find something that piques your interest, then spend at least 10 minutes on different recipes online on how to make it. Cooking isn't hard. Just learn to take your time and taste your food often to gauge your process. It'd probably be better if you chose a recipe first, and if you have questions about it to ask here than to ask for generalizations.
>>22007797OP asked for something easy. it takes 10 years to learn how to cook the egg.
>>22007275just get down spaghetti pomodoro. it's easy, it's quick, it's hard to fuck up and even harder to perfect.
>asking for cooking advice What is this; reddit?
>>22007275Honestly I think this is a giant gap in the market. There's not really any sort of cookbook or online course that works from basics to competency as you'd find for for example learning a programming language, most are just collections of recipes even ones that claim to be 'cooking for idiots' or 'how to cook' or something. You might get giant autistic pages of theory much of it disproven bullshit but not gardually teaching you skills via doing things as you'd learn from someone in person. The most you can find are expensive in-person weekend courses or using full on professional culinary course textbooks/reference manuals and both of those are kind of overkill for a home cook wanting to learn.I don't know if this is because cooking is really full of imparted wisdom/old wives tales and expects a level of implicit knowledge but it's weird. It's a basic life skill that many people lack and nobody is selling the solution that I've seen. Meal kits are really a symptom of this and people like to think it'll teach them to cook but (probably intentionally) they rely on prepackaged amounts and sauces too much to be general learning.If I'm wrong and any anon can point at a way to solve this I'm all ears.
