Practicing your skills

>>8371091
Home is where i dick around with experimenyal stuff i can't do at work. Dishes I've never tried, techniques I've never used, ingredients I've never worked with, flavor combinations I've never done etc. At least sometimes. When you're working a lot sometimes you just want to make your grandma's stew recipe you've made a hundred times and relax.

>>8371113
Yeah, I feel that
I just get this urge of motivation to recreate stuff I seen when I go to restaurants or something I see on tv or online, then make it after with my own twist to see if I can make it better, then keep twisting it and changing it bit by bit until it's either ruined or I feel like its perfect, I want to get into culinary arts so learning, and self teaching myself skills in the kitchen feels beneficial to me
but sometimes i just throw in a pizza pop and just laze around

>>8371133
That's called creativity. Sometime you feel creative and want to fuck around cooking, other times you just feel hungry and want some pizza rolls.

Neither is wrong.

>>8371091
Yes. I pick recipes that exercise skills I want to improve, or use flavors in not familiar with. I also sometimes do "dry run" type practice, ie learning the pan flip technique using dry rice.

op here
Any handy skills/techniques you learned just by practicing or toying around?
For me, just more efficient ways for slicing and dicing food

>>8371091
I made creme brulee like 12 times just for christmas practice last month

Still didn't get it just right :c

>>8371214
Look at knife technique youtube vids and get good with a mandolin.

DO NOT fuck around with a mandolin...it will fuck your shit up...but it's great for increasing speed when solo cooking.

>>8371222
>tfw shaved many chunks out of my hands on my mandolin