Casually Explained: Cooking

new this video is sponsored by expressvpn now there are plenty of ways you can get inspired to cook whether it be you're looking to impress a girl you're looking to impress a guy or your mom's out and this was the first search result nevertheless the first step of your cooking journey is always the same watching gordon ramsay make a beef wellington and then going online and finding a recipe well beyond your skill level now after you've learned your lesson the hard way it's time to pick something more manageable a lot of people get stressed out

trying to read a recipe but it should be pretty easy if you take it one step at a time in general i find the only part of a recipe that's hard to follow is the part where it says serves too nevertheless whenever you're cooking something the first thing you have to do is buy your ingredients bring them home set them on the countertop and organize them before you start cooking this step is called mizonplace which is french for for getting half the [ __ ] you need in this situation i like to make an adaptation

to the recipe by taking a look at all the ingredients i don't have seeing exactly where the author uses them in the recipe and then i cross them out now when you're cutting your ingredients having a sharp knife is very important because it lets you cut things faster and more easily thus creating the illusion of confidence to keep your knife sharp make sure you run the knife up and down a honing rod every time before you cook this won't do anything on account of your poor technique but it does make a cool sound furthermore if

you do have a date nothing turns a woman on more than being alone in a room with a man sharpening a 10-inch kitchen knife so now that all your ingredients are chopped and neatly placed in bowls around your cutting board make sure you take a quick picture for instagram so your friends think your life is going better than it actually is now every dish is cooked differently so make sure you cover the smoke detector with saran wrap and follow the recipe closely while i'm waiting for thermal radiation to do its work i like to reward

my hard work by ignoring the mess i've made and having a glass of wine in the restaurant industry this is called a coping mechanism and all professional chefs do this after their shift the final part of cooking your meal is plating which is how your dish will be presented and this is pretty straightforward amateurs put each ingredient beside each other with the sauce on top but professionals put each ingredient on top of each other with the sauce on the side so once you put your chicken tenders on top of the fries it's time to reflect

on everything you did wrong maybe you substituted flour for cornstarch got celsius and fahrenheit confused on your oven eyeballed every measurement literally only had half the ingredients or maybe your meat was dry because you got hungry and ate the butter instead of putting it in the pan whatever you did wrong don't feel bad about it just write it down click one star and hit submit review once you've finished your meal and prolonged starvation for another day what are the next steps you might ask well if you're really looking to become a cookie enthusiast and take

things to the next level it's pretty straightforward learn the proper way to dice an onion with both horizontal and vertical cuts this won't improve the taste of your food but it will allow you to tell everyone else they're wrong purchase a 300 japanese knife these knives are designed specifically for cutting soft boiled eggs and green onions to spice up your microwave ramen but are also the perfect tool for cutting root vegetables on your glass cutting board purchase a cast iron skillet while many think that this is just an 8 pound frying pan made of solid

iron that would be absolute sacrilege as the true enthusiast knows that cast iron is not a raw industrial but a misunderstood relic of the past to be worshipped and sensually oiled only reaching a climax when your wife gives you the ultimatum that it's her or the pan gets the dishwasher cycle purchase an immersion circulator that you call a sous-vide and then use it exactly one time run out of money that's pretty much it now it's recipe books for christmas and forearm tattoos until the day you die at this point there's probably only one question on

your mind should i go pro and while there's not a lot of competition right now keep in mind that professional chefs have the challenge of working with some of the most insufferable people on the planet customers in addition you might think well if i'm a professional chef all the food i make for myself would be delicious nope frozen pizza and jack daniels nevertheless i don't want to discourage anyone and it all depends on what you really want from life for example if you want to be a pro athlete your goal is to win a gold

medal at the olympics if you want to be a pro artist you hope one day your work hangs in the louvre but if you want to be a pro chef you have to have the dream that one day however unlikely a french tire company will finally rate your restaurant three stars now if you're looking for a vpn that's consistently rated five michelin stars by all major tech review platforms expressvpn is the one to go for if you're not familiar expressvpn can reroute your ip address to nearly any country in the world so what does that

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