You want Good Eats by Alton Brown! Each episode is built around an ingredient or technique and he then goes deep on that one topic and explain all the how/why/w

You want Good Eats by Alton Brown! Each episode is built around an ingredient or technique and he then goes deep on that one topic and explain all the how/why/when you should use it. While the episodes do generally demonstrate how to make a dish, the dish is more of the framing used to explain the underlying techniques and concepts.