/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12681800
By practicing. You can read recipes, but turning trivia into knowledge is important. I tend to get super autistic with shit and learn as much as I can about the things I'm interested in, but without practice you've got nothing more than trivia. I'd say start simple, like hamburger helper or some shit(basically where I started, simple box meals) and pay attention to what spices are in it. Get a nice variety of spices and start to train your palate to recognize them(how can you learn to cook if you haven't learned to taste?). If it's one of the ingredients, smell/taste the spice from the jar, rinse your mouth with water, then take a bite and try to recognize the spice in the food. After that, start working up to something a little harder and using fresh ingredients, and your ideas to spice it. Like just look at a recipe to learn the general cooking procedure for breaded pork chops, then get regular unseasoned bread crumbs and try seasoning them yourself. Each recipe you try will require a lot of actual practice to get right, and soon you'll be making your own improvements/twist on them, then eventually your own. Practice, practice, practice though. You have no idea how many loaves of bread I've fucked up learning to bake.