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Guildenstern Mother
Mar 31, 2010

Why walk when you can ride?

Test Pattern posted:

In all seriousness, Good Eats is on YouTube and Netflix. He will walk you through super-basic techniques, and even do some fairly advanced techniques, recipes and concepts. First time you cook something, follow a recipe (his or someone else's) SLAVISHLY -- you don't know what you're doing yet, so you don't know how important some little step or ingredient could be. VERY VERY SOON you'll be able to just pick up and cook stuff, or riff off recipes you find online.

Alternatively to SLAVISHLY following the recipe, read about 5-6 recipes for the same thing. The things all of them have in common? SLAVISHLY DO THOSE, see what's different about them, and those things are prob safe to mess around with. Also read the comments, lots of people will rate a recipe highly and then you look at the comments and its some nonsense, like "I made this and it was fabulous but I didn't have chicken so I used strip steak and instead of white wine and lemons I used gorgonzola. 5/5 would make again"

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