how do I become a better chef? I cook as a hobby and try to gain

>>9363703

The word you're looking for is "cook", not "chef". A chef manages a professional kitchen.

The quick answer is: work in a professional kitchen for 6 months. When you make as many dishes in a night as a hobby cook makes in a year, you get good fast. It's about getting down the fundamentals of technique and learning how to taste, even if you'll only be making the same 50'ish dishes every night. Once you know how to cook on the line, taste, season, prep and plate, anything you look up on the internet or in a cookbook will immediately seem attainable.

>>9363703
>using chef as a general term for someone who makes food
When will this shitty meme ever die

>>9363703
Your best bet is to just look online.

https://theculinarycook.com/start-here/
This site has a lot of basic information and defines terms you may be lacking. Just read up and practice. Also it may help to go eat at well known good restaurants and get a better idea of how things should taste.

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>>9363714
Not op, but that sounds unviable to me. I already have a good career and I don't wanna throw it away to get good at a hobby. And I wouldn't think it's as easy as "just b a chef lol". Like you'd probably need to have prior experience or training to be a chef unless you're flipping burgers at McDonald's in which case your cooking experience will be bet limited to a corporate structure.

Is it better just to go to some community college cooking class? Audit a class at a culinary school? I'm not trying to be a pro chef, I'm trying to be safer, smarter, and more effective in the kitchen.

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>>9364021
My friend the correct solution is to become a disciple of Chef John, you can find him on YouTube under Food Wishes

This motherfucker cooks. He's got all the professional know how and is a huge advocate of cooking by adjustment instead of by a strict recipe.

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>>9363703
>>9364021
>>9365604


this reply was meant for OP