Eater · Meghan McCarron
How to get started on your cooking journey, from frying eggs and saucing pasta to roasting chickens and making soup
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How to Learn How to Cook: Free Lessons for Nervous Beginners
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Learning how to cook is less about collecting recipes than about handling a knife without fear, trusting your sense of salt and heat, and knowing when chicken is done. This list is for adults who can barely cook, or who follow recipes with a knot in their stomach, and want skills that stick. Everything here is free, and it teaches the why behind the steps so dinner stops depending on a perfect recipe.
National CACFP Association · mckenzie@cacfp.org
Ensuring maximum safety in the kitchen is crucial. ICN outlines the importance of knife safety, skills, maintenance, and storage.
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Professional chef and culinary instructor Frank Proto returns with another Epicurious 101 class, this time teaching you each of the knife skills you’ll need ...
Kitchn · The Kitchn Editors
The purpose of adding salt isn't to make food tasty salty — it's to enhance the flavors of the ingredients.
NPR · Rachel Martin
In her new cookbook, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samin Nosrat says the key to good food is learning to balance those elements when cooking — and to trust your instincts.
AgriLife Today · Karn Dhingra
Discover the science behind browning meat and boosting flavor with tips from a Texas A&M food expert.
Jacques Pépin Foundation
The video series, Jacques Pépin’s Complete Cooking Techniques, produced by KQED (1995) is an exhaustive compendium of basic culinary and home-cooking instruction. Jacques covers everything from choosing the right pans to maintaining your…
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Cook Smarts · Jess Dang
Dinner in 5 steps? Yes, please! Our weeknight meal template will help you get dinner on the table in 5 easy steps without any stress.
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