/ck/ - Food & Cooking

sup /ck/,
what are the best resources for learning to cook?

>buy perishable food
>if you don't use it, you just wasted your time and money buying it

>look up recipes
>require one ingredient you don't have or needs like 1tbsp
>spend $5 on an ingredient just to use it once for one recipe. most of the time it goes to waste after

this is why i don't cook. but i want to learn how. what do?

>try cooking chicken in a stainless steel pan
>the empty part of the pan turns black
how do i prevent this?

pic related, i skimmed through this book

>>8751038
Start with pic related, you can likely find a torrent of it if you're a poorfag.

As the title suggests it covers the basics.

mark bittman - how to cook everything the basics

>>8480723
also a good suggestion

>>8233130
Buy this and good luck