Hello, bees! I like playing around in the kitchen, but I feel like I really have no idea what I’m doing with the fundamentals. I’m enjoying the learn-from-experience process, but am looking for something to supplement. I recently started reading / listening to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (by Samin Nosrat). I’m liking it so far, but I am feeling like there are some assumptions made on readers’ understanding. Perhaps there are other helpful materials with different perspectives on covering the basics. Do you have any recommended books, shows, or other material on the absolute basics of cooking?
BBC Good Food is quite good. The website is basically a big book of recipes, but tailored to all levels of experience.
When they ask you to do something, there’ll usually be a hyperlink to an article covering that particular thing.
Often there will also be demonstration videos as well, which can be handy.
Check out Ethan Chlebowski on youtube. He really dives into the whys of cooking techniques and runs alot of experiments. Learned a ton watching him
I second Ethan’s channel! He has a few videos on how he preps his meals, or how he organizes food around his days so he doesn’t need to reach to takeout when he doesn’t have time to cook and stuff like that.
A bit of a different recommendation, but a service where they send you ingredients with instructions for the dishes you select, aka Hellofresh in some countries. It will help you to wrap your head around portions, spices order of preparation and etc, most importantly just plainly building experience instead of listening / reading to other people talking about it.
