Basic Cooking Skills For Beginners

In every aspect of life you learn the basics of skills one step at a time, starting at the bottom. You learn to crawl before you walk, and walk before you run. Yet with cooking, many recipes assume you know how to cook before you know how to cook. This leads frustration and disappointment when food doesn't turn out like the pretty picture in the book. 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 get you making delicious food that you and your loved ones can enjoy tucking into!

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.