Current Events > Where is a good place to start learning how to cook better?

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I've been watching a lot of binging with babish and I thought that might be a good start, but it seems like a lot of the better stuff has pretty much nothing but custom ingredients and some techniques I might not be so familiar with or familiar with at all.

Plus, it almost seems to be like a video cookbook, and isn't super great with technique. I haven't mad much of anything from there yet and I'm wondering if I should just kinda cook along with it until I get the hang of it, or stick to the more basics with babish stuff until I have maybe started a step or so lower on the how to cook stuff

Advice?

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Stick with normal recipes for a while until you have a good intuitive sense for the important things, like when meat is cooked all the way through, which types of pans are better for which types of meats, when to grill versus broil versus bake something, how to properly bread chicken and fish, etc.

You can start messing around with cooking things from scratch, substituting ingredients, blending spices, etc once you've got the basics down.

Edit: if you're looking for slightly more specific advice, I would recommend starting with this cookbook. They are simple recipes made with easy to find ingredients and will set you down the path of understanding how things cook and combine:
https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Man_A_Can_A_Plan.html

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There's a channel called "Not another cooking show"

It's pretty good, he talks about the ingredients and shows the techniques with his recipes.

Good for you, man! I don't have any great advice. I starting pushing my skills because my girlfriend is vegetarian (occasionally fish), and I just get an idea of the type of dish and google. We have been together 8 months and I make a different dish for her about once a week.

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master breakfast

seriously

tag

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In the kitchen

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Kosher salts with babish

In almost every instance the high end bougie ingredients can be substituted with something else or just left out entirely.

Being a skilled cook and having expensive ingredients aren't the same thing.

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