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What are some resources for learning how to cook, for someone who has literally only made ramen before?

I don't even know how to use a fucking oven. Of course I can use a microwave, though.

>> No.12230635
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I can smell you being a breeder from my computer.

>> No.12230637

>>12230635
I'm a gay male moving in with his boyfriend and I want to learn how to cook for him.

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>>12230637
Bullshit. You are a straight man and will thus get zero help from my sophisticated GAY ass.

>> No.12230667

>>12230633
Heat cooks food. Too hot, shit burns, sometimes. The rest can be figured out through trial and error.
Seriously though, ask a specific question of youtube and there's probably somebody who's made a tutorial for it. BTW ovens are not complex, you turn it on and set the desired temperature, when it reaches that it will beep, then you put the food inside for as long as the recipe says to, then take it out and eat it. Cooking just looks hard, but really it can be as easy as building lego shit from the instructions.
My advice would be to start small. Cook an egg. Then try scrambling two or three and making an omelette, adding whatever veggies/cheese/meat you want inside. Build on success, learn from failure, consult guides when you're not sure about something.
As an aside, you may want to get a slow cooker. They're idiot-proof dinner-makers. You can probably find one at your local thrift-shop or Goodwill for cheap if you know what you're looking for.
>insert sliced potatoes
>insert sliced carrots
>insert uncooked pork roast
>cover, turn switch from 'off' to 'low', turn off and eat after 6ish hours

>> No.12230692

>>12230633
>some resources for learning how to cook
youtube is great for that. Most novices think cooking is about recipes or ingredients, but the most important thing is really technique. And hardly any cookbooks go into any of that. Watch some videos by Laura in the Kitchen, or Chef John, or Jacques Pepin. Gordon Ramsay and jamie Oliver also have dedicated beginner series up on youtube, Oliver has a special website for that as well.

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>>12230633
Watch Good Eats since Alton Brown is the patron saint of cooking. Even if you aren't making the food in every episode, you'll glean something useful. Then go cook a lot of eggs

They're cheap so fucking them up doesn't matter too much, and are as healthy as you want them to be. Cooking is 70% Experience & 30% Knowledge, so just fucking around half the time will make you that teensy bit better.

>> No.12230729

>>12230633
Watch A Taste of History with Walter Staib. I have learned so much from that show. I also bought a cast iron dutch oven and it is absolutely better than my instapot and crock pot.

>> No.12230746

>>12230716
>shun era alton
Honestly, his "I'm Just Here for the Food" cookbooks are great beginner introductions to basic technique, and the recipes are better than the ones in the show.

>> No.12230761

>>12230633
https://youtu.be/mTEABb1Ck_U watch a bunch of these you will be a pro chef in no time...

>> No.12230864

>>12230633
>take protein and heat it until good
>take veggies and heat them or not until good
>put a little salt on EVERYTHING
>learn vinegrette and put it on plant matter
So that's the first phase of learning how to cook

>> No.12232274

Start simple and work your way up

1 - Toast
2 - French toast
3 - Pancakes
4 - Chilli
5 - Some sort of pasta with a sauce or something, whatever you like.