Is there a comprehensive cooking guide out there?
I'm a beginner chef and I would like to learn all there's to learn about cooking. But all I can seem to find are recipes and tutorials on separate skills on YouTube. I'm wondering if there's a comprehensive school or guide out there that's accessible online that has a set curriculum to teach you all there's to cook. I don't want to have to figure out all the knife and food preparation skills I need to search, but rather would like a website, book, or guide that let's me follow it's instructions to learn all there's about cooking. An iPhone app would suffice too.
If you would have asked for a book for a novice cook, I would have said The Joy of Cooking and it seems they have a website http://www.thejoykitchen.com/ All Recipes website might be useful too.http://allrecipes.com/
You might want to use Pinterest to save an organize links to recipes and instructions on different websites like youtube
Even experienced chefs don't know "all there's" about cooking because they have not met every one who cooks.
You can be cooking for many years and meet someone who has discovered or developed a new method, tweaked a recipe in a completely different way, developed a new way to use an old staple, etc, etc.
I started cooking for my family, got interested in making things from scratch and started collecting cookbooks that did just that. Back then, using Bisquick for everything from pancakes to pie crust was popular but I wanted to learn how to make things myself and HATED recipes that started out with "1 cup Bisquick".
Fast forward 20 years and I ended up a chef at a high end bakery/winebar/bistro, making pate's, ethnic foods, whipping up French classics… And all self taught. I spent hours with my nose buried in all sorts of cook books from The Joy of Cooking, to Meta Givens series of cook books to Julia Childs Mastering the Art of French Cooking to learning Oriental recipes and methods. Then the internet burst onto the scene and All those things were at my fingertips. All I had to do was google and I was good to go. Cooking encyclopedias, sites like Epicurious.com(my go to even now since I'm retired) and many more.
A comprehensive school to teach the basics is called culinary arts school and every country has them.
Look beyond youtube to books at your local library or book store.
A food service manual would be a good thing but keep in mind that cooking is an ongoing experience and if you are passionate about it, you will ALWAYS be learning new stuff, new techniques, etc.
Why not start by taking a class in basic cooking.those are often offered through adult education programs at your local college.
You can ask the instructor to recommend books or programs to further your education at that time.
Watch any and all basic cooking shows… They show basic techniques with knives, slicing, dicing, chopping, and basic methods, steaming, simmer, boiling, braising, etc.
In fact cooking shows is where I learned to make the perfect boiled egg(Julia Child) what a chiffonade was(Emeril Live) how to make the perfect sauce or gravy(Emeril Live) how to make a classic Alfredo sauce(Tyler Florence), etc.
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