Sup guys, i am wondering if there are any good cooking classes/videos

>>8263142
good eats is a great starting point
Alton tries his best to produce recipes that don't require weird obscure ingredients or tools you'd shell out 50 bucks to use once
He focuses on the science behind it so it prepares you to make other more complicated recipes

There should really be a sticky about stuff like this, but there isn't

>>8263142
Cooking Live with Sara Moulton was fantastic. She had guests who were experts at something, and they would talk while preparing the evening meal together, all within an hour. She would teach technique while doing it, and all the visual cues to do the steps right, knowing when to flip, etc. (Sara was editor of gourmet magazine and former intern of Julia Child, iirc)
As far as making things over and over, it really is a kind of 3x rule for you to kind of perfect it, remember it for next time, and get through any possible mistakes you might make that you won't do again.
Frugal Gourmet was great, and he had companion cookbooks that are still relevant. One of them was chicken soup from every world cuisine. He cooked the classics and talked about some of the history. He was geeky professorish.
Earlier Good Eats were very educational, but more often were kind of only fun for the production style.
Anne Burrell has some good technique lessons, and makes sensible delicious foods anyone would order in a restaurant. She does a great job teaching timing, all the countdowns to the point everything is ready at the same time. That can be hard for a newb, and she focuses on that.

>>8263142

Good Eats is worth buying on DVD. Informative, fun... greatly improved my cooking. Check out some of the Cook's Illustrated books, which are all excellent.

Foodwishes on youtube
A lot of the recipes are not things you can do for an average weeknight, but you can learn a lot of technique that transfers to tons of other recipes.

>>8263208
I remember Sara going off about how she and another chef were chopping onions as a try out for Julia, and Julia immediately nixed the other chef because she didn't chop the onion correctly.

For some reason, that always has stuck with me. I don't know if it's a commentary about Julia's cruelty or an example of Sara's forgiving humanity.

>>8263175
/ck/ is never getting a sticky.

good eats sucks and is for retards. the whole premise of the show is treating the audience like pants on head retards and an asserting an oddly staunch position on "unitaskers". this quickly becomes annoying especially in the fish episode where he refuses to use a proper scaler because it's a "unitasker" but then whips out a giant plastic container into which he cut holes for his arms to cover the fish so scales don't fly everywhere. there's nothing overtly "sciency" about it either and it mostly just serves as an outlet for some retard to monologue and make money.

>>8263142
nigga this aint google, fucking kill yourself

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cooking+classes%2Fvideos