Cooking for Founders
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Cooking for Founders
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#2> Home-cooked food is almost always healthier than restaurant food, so don’t try to learn to cook and cook the healthiest possible version of each dish. Most veggies taste better roasted in a generous amount of olive oil...
It took me way to long to learn not to be afraid of oil when cooking and grilling food. I burned a lot of food for awhile under the assumption that I shouldn't be adding too much fat to homecooked food.
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#3> Home-cooked food is almost always healthier than restaurant food, so don’t try to learn to cook and cook the healthiest possible version of each dish. Most veggies taste better roasted in a generous amount of olive oil... It took me way to long to learn not to be afraid of oil when cooking and grilling food. I burned a lot of food for awhile under the assumption that I shouldn't be adding too much fat to homecooked…
Definitely - that and salt. Whenever you watch a professional chef cook you realize how much fat and salt going into making something taste "restaurant quality".
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#4Some good cooking shows.
* Matty Matheson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqH8-BBNTsluhcOzFKWLuw
* French Cooking Academy - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lG3Ihe4LGV851lODRIS5g
* Bon Appetit - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbpMy0Fg74eXXkvxJrtEn3w
* J. Kenji Lopez-Alt - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqqJQ_cXSat0KIAVfIfKkVA
* Munchies - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLfMkkHhSA_LaCta0BzyhQ
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#5> [...] others, like searing in a pan, use convection where the heat is transferred directly surface to surface.
Maybe cooks use these terms differently but in physics this is heat conduction not convection. Convection is when heat is moved by moving matter in gases or fluids.
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#6> I’m calling it Cooking For Founders because I think it will resonate with a lot of entrepreneurs who think like me.
Uhh, ok. Includes tips like "Make it taste good"
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#7Looking forward next to reading Founding for Cooks.
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#8It is not convection but conduction!
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#9Love the sentiment behind the post - cooking is great life skill to get good at, but I think the "Essential Gear" is definitely far from "essential" (and maybe this will help the new cook from being too scared of the list).
Here's my version of the "minimum viable set": 1. big, sharp knife 2. cutting board 3. wooden spoon 4. pan.
IMO, the particularly dispensable: "instant read digital cooking thermometer", "micro-plane zester", "fish turner spatula", "large heat-safe glass measuring cup", "honing rod".
Again, still love the intention. Nice post!
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#10I'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 then the bulking stuff - pasta etc - and all on the hob, rather than in an oven. Really versatile bit of kit.