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One tip: get a sound vide cooker. It’s so foolproof and you have a lot more leeway, sometimes even hours, when you actually eat. Great if you get locked into something and don’t want to be interrupted until you’re done.
I've been teaching my friends how to cook. Here's what I've learned: Follow the recipe, then don't follow it. As a beginner, follow the damn recipe. Read the ingredients list, buy the ingredients, and follow the instructions to the word. I know too many beginners who get lazy, don't follow the recipe and then the food doesn't taste good. Then, once you've gotten it down, start to tweak and experiment. Try adding a ne…
I'm bemused as to why this is aimed at "founders", but whatever. I would like to say, though, that if I'd made a list of essential kit, I would have included a sauté pan; it's like a frying pan, but deeper and with vertical sides and usually with a (transparent) lid. You can cook great meals in a sauté pan - do your onions/spices/garlic etc, then add meat (if that's your thing), then stock, pasatta (or whatever) and…
Yep. It's the first recommendation on the list! Though I typo'd (fixed now) as sauce pan.
>Baking is much harder and less forgiving than any other kind of cooking. If you’re just starting to get into cooking, don’t start with baking. Well, that depends a lot on what you're baking. Baking bread can be very easy, and very rewarding. There are few things more delicious than freshly baked bread with butter. There are some simple cakes that are also easy to make. But yes, fancy desserts are hard.
They’re not that hard, the issue is that most of the recipes online are lying to you. A lot of tips and tricks for working with pastries and chocolate are basically an oral tradition and aren’t well documented anywhere.
I am sorry to be so harsh, but this guide will not teach you anything about cooking, nor will it be of any particular relevance to founders [^]. The blog post is a 3,500 word advertisement to Amazon affiliation links. A selection of "helpful" advice given in the post: - How to chop food? "Just search them on YouTube" - "When you are first learning to cook I recommend avoiding complex recipes" - "Get cooking" Finally:…
If you have someone who needs to learn how to quickly, you don't teach them theory, like the different kinds of heat transfer (which this says you should learn, and then names them, and then does not teach you about them). You teach them how to make some basic, healthy things that work with a bunch of ingredients.
It's really easy to teach someone to make a stir fry or a one-dish oven-baked dinner, and those are great starting points because you can use a lot of different ingredients with those techniques. Once you can manage those, you'll be able to make yourself a quick, easy, cheap and healthy dinner. You can read books about theory and heat transfer methods after that.
Read Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Then read Jacques Pepin's La Technique. Then watch Jacques' old tv show Fast Food My Way. You will become a decent cook just from these 3 sources. It covers all the basics you need to know, and the rest comes from experience. (Jacques also put a 3 hour video of techniques on YouTube recently, go find and watch it. And check the JP Foundation website for more recipes and videos)
All recipes are just patterns and methods applied to ingredients. Often there is a vast range of tolerance in each, and you learn the tolerances mainly by exceeding them. So experiment with recipes and you will learn what doesn't work, which leaves only what does.
I am sorry to be so harsh, but this guide will not teach you anything about cooking, nor will it be of any particular relevance to founders [^]. The blog post is a 3,500 word advertisement to Amazon affiliation links. A selection of "helpful" advice given in the post: - How to chop food? "Just search them on YouTube" - "When you are first learning to cook I recommend avoiding complex recipes" - "Get cooking" Finally:…
I am sorry to be so harsh, but this guide will not teach you anything about cooking, nor will it be of any particular relevance to founders [^]. The blog post is a 3,500 word advertisement to Amazon affiliation links. A selection of "helpful" advice given in the post: - How to chop food? "Just search them on YouTube" - "When you are first learning to cook I recommend avoiding complex recipes" - "Get cooking" Finally:…
>Baking is much harder and less forgiving than any other kind of cooking. If you’re just starting to get into cooking, don’t start with baking. Well, that depends a lot on what you're baking. Baking bread can be very easy, and very rewarding. There are few things more delicious than freshly baked bread with butter. There are some simple cakes that are also easy to make. But yes, fancy desserts are hard.
> But yes, fancy desserts are hard. They’re not that hard, the issue is that most of the recipes online are lying to you. A lot of tips and tricks for working with pastries and chocolate are basically an oral tradition and aren’t well documented anywhere.