Questions tagged [learning]
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What is the best way to learn cooking for a student? [closed]
I am a student, and generally any cooking I do ends up being a disaster (unless it's cooking eggs or boiling dumplings in water), and I do want to get better. I don't know where to start. I can't ...
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How much can be learned from a regular cookbook as a vegan?
I've been looking since quite some time for books on gourmet vegan kitchen, that require a lot of competence, and I even asked here on the board for advice. That time I got recommended "...
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Preparing To Teach Someone How to Bake a Whole Wheat Yeast Bread
I'm going to be teaching a friend how to bake bread. She has never baked bread or had any experience with a bread-like dough. Since it'll be a one-day thing, it won't use sourdough as I'm used to ...
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What are strategies to identify restaurants where you will learn as much as possible?
How do I identify restaurants that offer excellent training/education? I considered looking at the number of chefs that learned at a certain restaurant and afterwards achieved a Michelin star or won ...
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How to understand flavors and when to use combination of them?
I want to be a home cook and at some stage to become a chef having my own café or restaurant.
Marco Pierre White always says when he likes a dish in masterchef:
Great dish. It tells me that you ...
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How should I choose my next step as a cook?
I'm a reasonably competent home cook: I can roast a chicken, bake bread, improvise a dinner with what's in the fridge, etc, but I'm looking to step up my game a bit. How do I look at a recipe and ...
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How to cook meat? [duplicate]
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What is the secret of making a really juicy burger?
Well I want to be more independent and cook for my self. How can I say, cook a burger on a frying pan? I know you have to do ...
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How to learn to cook? [duplicate]
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Resources for a beginner learning to cook
What's a good way to learn cooking and avoid the current trend of my life that is best summarized by this xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/...
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How to complement a dish?
I really love cooking the "main feature" of a meal... I love doing the meat - steak, chicken breasts, you name it, I love it.
But when it comes to making the rest of the meal, I always draw a blank. ...
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What are good instructional cooking TV shows?
In the spirit of Aaronut's comment on my answer to TV Programs like Good Eats, what are good shows for people to really learn about cooking (the science behind cooking; the history and cultural ...
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How can I train myself to identify flavors better?
I'd love to be able to cook well and I think a part of that is identifying flavors.
We all have different palates, but there are probably some basic techniques that can be used to figure out what the ...
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How to correctly use a whisk?
I've tried many times to whip some cream or egg whites with a simple whisk, but I feel tired after about a minute of whipping, and I do not obtain good results also after whipping for sometime. I ...
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Can I learn to cook from a book?
I want to improve my cooking skills and have considered following a number of books that call themselves cookery courses (e.g. Delia's complete cookery course, Ballymaloe cookery course).
Can I ...
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Are the Jacques Pépin videos worth it for a novice?
I have Pépin's "Complete Techniques" book and find it interesting but a little hard to follow at times. I wonder if the DVD "The Complete Pépin" is a worthwhile addition. The reviews on Amazon are ...
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Which food writers do you take to bed? [closed]
Which food books (and I'm thinking books on food and cooking rather than recipe books) do you find on your bedside cabinet rather than on the kitchen shelves?
McGee on Food and Cooking: An ...