HOW DO I MAKE FOOD

>>8022896
>Where can i learn to cook?

With Google:
1) pick a recipe. Google it.
2) Buy the ingredients the recipe calls for, and follow directions.
3) If you encounter words you don't know then google them to learn what they mean.


>I can't find a normal site for learning the basics of preparing food

Good Eats, Alton Brown. on youtube

>buy things
>cut off things you don't want to eat
>apply heat to rest

WA LA

>>8022896

http://www.thekitchn.com/collection/cooking-school-373

>>8023076
Thanks guys i will try it

>>8022896
You remember when the internet didnt exist? Yeah, didnt think so.

Cookbooks man. Fuck. People even. Relatives? Its like you didnt even try before posting the "HOW TO COOK" question.

>>8022896
You follow recipes at first and then you see what goes together, what doesn't. Keep tasting what you're cooking. Keep experimenting with different spices and methods (trial and error is great cause you learn from mistakes). Then eventually you know what works well together and can whip up things on the fly.

Pro-tip: Always add less, taste and then add more if needed. As my mother says:
>You can always add more, but its very hard to remove what you've added.

I had to say this all the time to my roommate when he was first learning how to prepare basic dishes like chicken and rice or whatever. He'd always ask me specifically what needed to be done and I'd always respond that it isn't a science, you just do stuff and see what works and what doesn't. The worst thing you can realistically do is ruin a piece of food, and the experience of trying it yourself is infinitely more valuable than following a recipe.

I barely even follow the recipes when I bake, just do very rough estimates of amounts and it always comes out fine.

Cooking is about doing, not learning.

>>8022896
I like this guy but I am just some fucking pleb
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/

>>8023481
I too must be a pleb. Chef john taught me some basic recipes and got me started on cooking.

>>8023506
Well I don't really want people to think foodwishes is for plebs. I've got a pot of meat sauce simmering right now for lasagna.
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/tomato-sauce-your-wish-is-eventually-my.html
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-lasagna.html
Holy shit it tastes so good. I think I even fucked up a little and it's still so good.

>>8022896
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCekQr9znsk2vWxBo3YiLq2w

this should help.

>>8022896
have an IQ above 92

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>>8023426
>tfw I think about kids these days moving out of their parental home without inheriting some of the family cookbooks and adding to them over the course of their lives so they can pass them on to their own children later on