I know nothing about cooking, where should I start?

[Anonymous No.16611728]

So, I know almost nothing about cooking. I can only heat up frozen food from the market (and only basic things, like ramen noodles, cup noodles, and hamburgers), where should I start learning about cooking? Any books, websites, YouTube channels recommendations? Thanks in advance.
I live in Brazil, btw.

[Anonymous No.16611738]

>>16611728
stews. easy, tasty, healthy. i can't reccomend any yt channel or book in particular but if the guy uses a lot of tools ore is overly complicated then look for something different.

[Anonymous No.16611743]

>>16611728
Adam.
Chadgusea.

[Anonymous No.16611748]

>>16611728
>I live in Brazil, btw.
I feel sorry for you

[Anonymous No.16611749]

>I live in Brazil
just get some gutter oil and a few human body parts laying around, voilla! fried meat

[Anonymous No.16611762]

>>16611738
>stews
Thanks!

>if the guy uses a lot of tools ore is overly complicated then look for something different.
Ok. I suppose that's a piece of advice just for now as I'm a beginner, right?

>>16611743
Adam Ragusea? Searching here, I feel like I have already seen this guy somewhere before.

>>16611748
Yeah, I know.

>>16611749
About that, I might have actually eaten human flesh before, search about "Cannibals of Garanhuns". I'm not sure though, hope I didn't.

[Anonymous No.16611775]

Learn to make a few pasta dishes, tomato sauce is very easy. Make scrambled and fried eggs or omelets. Stir fry can be made with frozen vegetables, any meat, and a few ingredients for sauce, and then eaten with rice or noodles.

[Anonymous No.16611784]

>>16611762
>Ok. I suppose that's a piece of advice just for now as I'm a beginner, right?
actually its my opinion in general. some guys just shill shitty kitchen devices and you feel simply lost watching them.

[Anonymous No.16611789]

>>16611743
Fuck that faggot

[Anonymous No.16611792]

>>16611775
Thanks, anon! I was actually thinking about trying scrambled eggs, I'll definitely try it.

>>16611784
Alright, I'll bear that in mind.

[Anonymous No.16611797]

>>16611789
What is his problem?

[Anonymous No.16611824]

>>16611728
Learn basic sauces, classic dishes, and how to balance flavor. You can find a shit ton of recipe books online.
Samin Nosrat is a gross obese arab but her advice is solid when it comes to salt, fat, acid, and heat.
Read a recipe and choose an ingredient to substitute. Intuition when it comes to flavor is important and if you can reliably replace one ingredient for another you'll foment your skills as a cook.
Ask older people you know if they want your help cooking. I'm sure some Brazilian grandma around you will appreciate the help in return for you learning how to cook some regional dishes by exposure.
The most important part is to try new things and always make sure you're out of your comfort zone. You will fuck up, but you'll learn.
I ate a lot of shitty dishes when I first learned to cook but the mindset of "this is why this is bad" is how you get better.
Cooking is one of the easiest skills to improve. Everyone on earth has to eat. Cooking with skill is just making that burden pleasurable.

[Anonymous No.16611826]

>>16611797
Obnoxious retard. Dont waste your time watching dipshits and listening to their side show nonsense. Watch americas test kitchen or food network. Every loser with an internet connection posts shit on line with their own "twist". Its just gimmicks.

[Anonymous No.16611827]

>>16611728
Watch A Taste of History with Walter Staib.

[Anonymous No.16611836]

>>16611797
Fuck it. Ban me

[Anonymous No.16611850]

>>16611836
https://www.gpb.org/news/2013/10/29/study-halloween-sex-offender-crackdown-unnecessary

must've taken awhile to omit the "Tags: " part.
But pretty funny that he ordered the tags this way.
https://www.gpb.org/news/2013/10/29/study-halloween-sex-offender-crackdown-unnecessary

[Anonymous No.16611941]

>>16611824
Thanks a lot, anon! That was a really good piece of advice.

>>16611826
>Watch americas test kitchen or food network.
Thanks for the recommendations.

>>16611827
I will, thanks!

[Anonymous No.16612275]

>>16611728
Learn to make chili. It involves a few basic steps but very economical, very delicious, and very fun to experiment with after you've made it "correctly" once or twice.

[Anonymous No.16612305]

Honestly apply for a prep job in a kitchen, my brother started working as a prep cook in a small restaurant and learned a shit ton about cooking from then on, he's been promoted to a regular cook and has been cooking way more since then.

[Anonymous No.16612318]

https://archive.org/details/cookscanon101cla0000soko

[Anonymous No.16612326]

>>16611728
Find an animal to slaughter and add heat.
See what happens

[Anonymous No.16612353]

Lurk /ck/ for a while. Before long, you'll be able to cram virtually any dish up your ass.

[Anonymous No.16612362]

>>16611775
No offense, but why do we not ever talk about where to find the right tools to get started? It sounds like OP doesn't even know how to boil water, much less make eggs or whatever. He needs a base.

Anon, there's a LOT here, but you can watch in chunks and get a better idea about how to prep food, how to cook, how to distribute heat, what kinds of things to use... Pepin is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CshkecuFfMc

[Anonymous No.16612597]

>>16612275
Thanks! I'll try.

>>16612305
Never really thought of that, thanks for the suggestion, anon.

>>16612318
Great! Thanks.

>>16612326
>>16612353
lol, k

>>16612362
That's awesome! Thank you so much, anon!

[Anonymous No.16612719]

>>16611728
just choose a recipe and follow it you fucking faggot. cooking is ez, the instructions for making any dish in the world are right at your fingertips and even if you fuck it up a little it'll still taste good. god i fucking hate dipshits like you

[Anonymous No.16612890]

>>16612719
hate toxic assholes like you gtfo

[Anonymous No.16613226]

>>16611728
First, don't be afraid of cranking your oven to max in some scenarios, or to heat your pans/skillets until they start steaming. Lots of home cooks think that shit just gets burnt when it's too hot, but it's about learning to use temperatures correctly. Same goes for using low temperatures.
I'd recommend watching some chefs on youtube for some ideas of basic techniques:
>Heston Blumenthal's "How to cook like Heston"
>Marco Pierre White's Knorr shit is unironically a good starting point for nabs
>Gordon Ramsay has a lot of simple dishes with variety that might introduce you to some more "exotic" flavors and combinations.
Some dishes you should start out with doing to get a good feel for balancing flavor without doing too much technical cooking:
>Bolognese or ragù (follow Marco here)
>Lasagna made with leftover ragù and store-bought pasta sheets
>Chicken with oven-roasted potatoes and tomato sauce
For books, I'd recommend:
>Heston Blumenthal at Home
>Everyone can bake by Dominique Ansel
>Marcus Everyday/Marcus at home by Marcus Wareing
>The Flavor Bible, for inspiration and guidelines on how to pair ingredients
Good luck, brazilanon, if you dedicate some time on this you will quickly become the designated chef among your friends and family (which is not a bad thing at all, it's tons of fun).

[Anonymous No.16613259]

>>16613226
Additional points:
Buy one semi-good to good chef's knife, you're looking at appr. $100 or so, something like this:
>https://www.amazon.com/Tamahagane-San-SN-1106H-180mm-Chefs/dp/B003A2I39K?th=1
Always handwash and dry it immediately after use. Never put it in a dishwasher.
Do your "mise en place" first before you start to actually cook your food. "Mise en place" means "put in place", and refers to the fact that you should have done all your prep work, like:
>chopping vegetables
>for n00bs, measuring quantities of ingredients, like sugar, salt, vinegar, tomato paste, and so on
At first, before you've gotten used to chopping stuff, the prep work will take a lot of time, but as you become better with a knife, you'll be finely dicing onions in 20-30 seconds.
Use your tastebuds when seasoning. Always start with less salt than you think is needed, and gradually work your way up with more salt from there. Also, salt tastes less the colder the food is.
Don't use non-stick pans; I recommend having one cast iron frying pan and one stainless steel sauté pan to begin with. When buying pots, try to find pots with lids that can be used in the oven as well (this also goes for frying pans).

[Anonymous No.16614631]

>>16611728
Food wishes to start, that's how I learned:
https://www.youtube.com/user/foodwishes

Look up a basic recipe from him. Try something simple like "garlic noodles":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZckD_bZlso

or lasagna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrkRFgHLVk

Pasta dishes imo are the easiest things to make starting out as long as you don't walk away from it.


His garlic noodles recipe I mentioned is quick enough to be a weeknight meal but it uses like 6 or 7 ingredients and you should taste each one before adding it to the dish.


By basic, btw, I mean what you can consider a weekend meal. You'll start cooking stuff that takes like an hour and several ingredient, might be even longer for some if you've never done kitchen prep before. Get yourself one good, sharp knife and you'll be fine. Get what's called a chef's knife. IT's bigger towards the handle and then it gets way thinner towards the end:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=chef%27s+knife&ref=nb_sb_noss_2


Adam ragusea, as people have mentioned, is a good cook. It's the personality some people don't like, although he's really not that bad. He breaks down cooking concepts pretty well and he has some great convenient weeknight/weekend meals you can try out with great instructions.

Both Chef John and Adam have proper printable recipes in the description. Chef John actually went back to the last like 15 years of his videos and added proper ones to all of them (before you had to go to his blog and watch the video and right shit down).


>What not to do:
DO NOT, under any circumstances, follow any video where all the instructions and ingredient amounts are in the video alone and not the description or a link. There are some good ones but it's harder to tell when you don't have a strong sense of cooking yet. And most of them are total fucking shit anyway.

Also avoid: "I made panda express at home but better" fuck no.

[Anonymous No.16614782]

>>16611728
my first cookbook

[Anonymous No.16614786]

>>16611728
Make curry. Curry is easy.