Level up your kitchen skills by learning essential basic cooking methods
In every aspect of life we learn the basics of skills one step at a time, starting at the bottom. We learn to crawl before we walk, and walk before we run. Yet with cooking, many recipes assume we know how to cook before we know how to cook. This course is designed to take a step back and show you the basics that recipes fail to get across.
What you’ll learn
- After completing this course, you will have a much better understanding of basic cooking methods.
- You will learn how to cook meat, fish, other proteins, vegetables, pasta, noodles and rice through methods such as frying, roasting, boiling, poaching….
- Once you know how to do the basic method on one ingredient, you will be able to apply it to many other ingredients.
- Learn how to cook with less reliance on recipes and with more intuition.
Course Content
- Vegetables –> 6 lectures • 25min.
- Meat, fish and other proteins –> 6 lectures • 20min.
- Pasta and noodles –> 2 lectures • 6min.
- Rice –> 3 lectures • 7min.
Requirements
In every aspect of life we learn the basics of skills one step at a time, starting at the bottom. We learn to crawl before we walk, and walk before we run. Yet with cooking, many recipes assume we know how to cook before we know how to cook. This course is designed to take a step back and show you the basics that recipes fail to get across.
The methods I’ve chosen to teach are, I believe, the most useful and important ones to any home cook. After researching cookbooks and recipes, these are the ones that are most commonly used, so a basic understanding of these will give you confidence in most recipes (and to improvise if you want to!).
What you’ll learn:
Vegetables:
No more mushy boiled veg or burnt onions!
- Boiling
- Pan Steaming
- Microwaving
- Roasting
- Frying Onion
- Sweating onion
Meat, fish and other proteins:
Including how to tell when meat such as chicken is actually cooked and safe to eat (hint: it’s nothing to do with the colour of the juices or meat).
- Poaching
- Microwaving
- Roasting
- Frying
Pasta and noodles:
Cooking them without wasting tonnes of water and energy!
- Boiling
- Microwaving
Rice:
Traditional and more convenient ways to cook rice.
- Boiling
- Microwaving – absorption method
- Boiling – absorption method
These are all taught by a practical demonstration for each method. By the end of the course you should be much more confident in your abilities to cook delicious food at home.