/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16519231]

I am a cooking noob and want to learn how to cook. What are some pro tips for amateurs and what are some good beginner recipes? Currently on my backlog to make is shakshuka and Cha siu bao (pork buns).

[Anonymous No.16519273]

practice how to cook:
eggs of all kinds (boiled, scrambled, sunny side up, french omelette) - teaches how to handle heat
rice (Even if it's with a rice cooker) - rice is like half a meal if you're really running low on cash.
toast bread on a stove - teaches you how to brown things.
buy dried beans and learn to soak them overnight, then drain them and cook them.

buy boxed things: mac and cheese, pancake mix, make pasta and follow instructions on the box.

[Anonymous No.16520044]

>d`egg

[Anonymous No.16520057]

>>16519231
you can do what i did and watch foodwishes, he makes it easy for newbs. just pick up on common ingredient pairings and methods and eventually youll pick up on things that you can just do instinctively and maybe even throw recipes together off whatever ingredients you have. just pay attention, its easy.

[Anonymous No.16520062]

>Download "Gordon Ramsay Masterclass" Torrent
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a4f8f51f98b323117ef454a431cf256bb701f270
>Watch: Jacques Pepin Essentials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CshkecuFfMc
>Subscribe to KQED
https://www.youtube.com/c/kqed
Make your way through the new Pepin "cooking at home" videos, his older Fast Food My Way series and the Yan Can Cook series.
>Subscribe to Chef John
https://www.youtube.com/c/foodwishes/videos
Just about anything you could think to want to cook he's done a recipe for.

The last guy isn't the same league as above but he does a lot of bbq, burgers & meat cooking that can be recreated on a stovetop frypan or an oven.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxqg1-LTxBXZBPp39SE_Kjw

Between Ramsay, Pepin, John & Yan you should be introduced to a wide variety of techniques from basic all the way to expert tier, ingredient usage from cheap to expensive and give you ideas, and the core techniques of classic French, modern Western/American and centuries old Asian cooking. Alton Brown's series are also interesting and informative. My one note is use Sunflower oil not Olive oil when you start.

As for utensils, find a commercial restaurant supply store:
>Pair of 8 inch chef knives. Basic 420 or 440C (aka AUS-10) steel then upgrade past beginner stage.
>A honing rod. Basic 12 inch stainless steel shouldn't cost much.
>Small pairing knife
>Measuring spoon set
>Small saucepan (fits ~6 eggs), large saucepan and stockpot 7 or 8 litre/quart. These should be simple stainless steel with glass or steel lids
>10 inch frypan & ~5 inch frypan (non-stick or ceramic to start with)
>Oven roasting tray (never use glass/pyrex, it will explode on you at some point)
>Aluminium baking sheet tray
>Bamboo cutting board
>Plastic board for chicken/pork
>Whisk, peeler, ladle, spatulas, stirring spoon
>Metal bowls
>Thermopop
>Strainer
>Large microwave bowl for cheap rice cooking (2.5 cup water per 1 rice, high for 11 minutes with a stir halfway)

[Anonymous No.16520065]

>>16519231
watch foodwishes, that's what i did, also stews are beginner friendly

[Anonymous No.16520401]

OP here. Thank you everyone for the help and assistance.

[Anonymous No.16520482]

>>16519231
How does he get out????

[Anonymous No.16520558]

Soups and chili
spaghetti sauces
slow cooker roasts

[ieatinmycar No.16520594]

>>16519231
Find recipes and follow the directions. Don't not follow directions. No you don't know better.

[Anonymous No.16520708]

>>16520482
smallkek

[Anonymous No.16520720]

>>16520482
Kek

[Anonymous No.16520729]

>>16520062
Based informative Lunaito
Thanks

[Anonymous No.16520751]

>>16520729
shuba shuba shuba

[Anonymous No.16520752]

>>16519231
Someone had an eggcident

[Anonymous No.16520763]

>>16520729
>>16520751
fucking faggots

[Anonymous No.16521192]

>>16519231
When in doubt, add more salt and butter.
Always use UNSALTED butter.
Tabasco sauce is your friend.
Montreal steak spice and Chinese five spice are also your friends.

[Anonymous No.16521203]

>>16519231
Be delightfully devilish, anon. Buy fast food and disguise it as your own cooking.

[Anonymous No.16521211]

>>16521203
How about I cook food and disguise it as fast food?

[Anonymous No.16521280]

>>16519231
don't be afraid to make mistakes and be prepared to get take-out when things go completely fubar

[Anonymous No.16521482]

>>16521211
Good luck with that. People have driven themselves to madness trying, but they just can't get the spices right.

[Anonymous No.16521484]

How about you cook food and disguise it as cooking.

[Anonymous No.16521488]

cooking is a waste of time
cooking is on the same level as crocheting
i hope you can sell your dishes on etsy

[Anonymous No.16521490]

Admittedly, being a whatever star chef still doesn't touch being a top physicist. All the subjective fields rely on obfuscation to be relevant.

[Anonymous No.16521496]

>>16519231
>this is the industrial food everyone eats
you know they wiped that shit off and put it back in the box

[Anonymous No.16521499]

>>16519231
Industry wouldn't be necessary if there weren't so many useless people. All they do is eat!

[Anonymous No.16521503]

>>16521499
and then they get obese, because eating is the only thing they have in their lives

[Anonymous No.16521513]

>>16521499
Sweden is the perfect society. They had a socialist party in power for the better part of a century. And it's all because they are sparsely populated and well-educated. Socialism is not possible anywhere else on Earth because the people are not trustworthy. Socialism requires trustworthy people. They simply do no exist outside of Sweden during the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.16521524]

>>16521496
If they're not broken, yeah. They'll probably throw some with only cracks in too

[Anonymous No.16521593]

>>16519231
Pick a food you enjoy eating. Find a recipe for it. Keep doing that until you accumulate experience and skills.

[Anonymous No.16522452]

>>16520751
I want to fuck these gals