Cooking 101

Bite by bite, the basics are here.

There are many aspects to cooking for yourself or a family and to the uninitiated it can seem daunting. Following recipes can work, but sometimes recipes make an assumption that the cook knows how to do something that they don’t. This can cause a lot of frustration.

The basics will help us to understand food and food preparation in a more foundational way so that we can identify when things are going wrong in a recipe, or adjust a recipe more to our liking or skip using a recipe at all. This is what we’re here to do and it’s not as hard or as time consuming as you think. We will start as brief and as simple as we can to get you going quickly.

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The Basics of Cooking: an Introduction

Getting Started: This is a brief introduction to how this site flows as well some simple cooking skills through an example recipe

Food Safety

The starting point of learning to cook as part of your cooking basics journey needs to be food safety. While it’s a large subject that food professionals need to study and are even tested on, the home cook only need be concerned with a few basic practices to ensure the prevention of foodborne illnesses. The … Read more

Cooking Methods

We can get a quick understanding of different cooking methods that will elevate our culinary skills very quickly simply by understanding the relationship between moisture and the consistency of food. Our options when deciding to cook something come down the following methods: boiling / braising, steaming, pan frying, baking / roasting, deep frying, and grilling / broiling

Cooking 101

The Basics of Cooking: an Introduction

Food Safety

Cooking Methods

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Cooking Methods

Food Safety

The Basics of Cooking: an Introduction