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Time to learn to cook. Useful tip: most recipes you'll come across online are way overcomplicated. Get a cookbook from a real publisher. Preferably an nth editi
by Kye 5y ago
Time to learn to cook. Useful tip: most recipes you'll come across online are way overcomplicated. Get a cookbook from a real publisher. Preferably an nth edition of something your ancestors 100 years ago might have used. An actual paper, gets grease spots with age book. That way you know someone actually paid to put someone else's words together and tried the recipes out.
Highlight, like with a highlighter, any recipes you like. Bring those to a community (maybe this one!) and ask for tips on how to improve it once you have some experience.
- cpach 5y agoGood advice. With a high-quality cookbook like that, you know the recipes have been tested before going to print. That makes them very useful.
- sva_ 5y agoIf I may recommend a book: "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" by Samin Nosrat https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753841-salt-fat-acid-heat https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753841-salt-fat-acid-h... If you look for recipes, I'd recommend starting with Italian dishes. They usually combine few ingredients but the end-results are amazing. It's crazy what you can you can do with so little. Be prepared to buy lots of olive oil though - at least it has a good $ per kcal rate, compared to other stuff you buy. If cooking seems too much of a waste of time, try listening to audiobooks or podcasts while you cook. Soon you'll be longing to get back into the kitchen.
- bpye 5y agoFor online recipes I find the BBC Good Food website [0] is pretty reliable, though I stick to the published recipes - it also has member submitted stuff which I suspect is much more variable. All the recipes are formatted sensibly, pretty much universally use metric measurements - which I find much easier, and normally pretty tasty. [0] https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/