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title: Basic Cooking
description: Basic cooking covers the fundamental techniques, knife skills, and food safety principles needed to prepare meals. Learners will understand how to follow recipes, handle kitchen equipment, and apply dry and wet heat cooking methods.
category: personal-development
subcategory: life-skills
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/basic-cooking
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# Basic Cooking

Basic cooking covers the fundamental techniques, knife skills, and food safety principles needed to prepare meals. Learners will understand how to follow recipes, handle kitchen equipment, and apply dry and wet heat cooking methods.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Courses • 3 Websites

## Courses

### 1. Basics with Babish

YouTube series in which Andrew Rea demonstrates single techniques - knife skills, eggs, stocks, braising, pan sauces - one per episode, filmed close-up with quantities stated. Builds the manual habits that recipes assume you already have.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLopY4n17t8RD-xx0UdVqemiSa0sRfyX19

**Tags:** cooking-techniques, knife-skills, home-cooking, kitchen-fundamentals, video-series

### 2. Cooking Fundamentals

Master basic cooking techniques with this comprehensive course! Learn essential skills from the Rouxbe Team and build your culinary confidence.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://rouxbe.com/cooking-school/fundamentals

**Tags:** cooking, culinary-techniques, knife-skills, food-safety, kitchen-basics

## Podcasts

### 1. Home Cooking

**Author:** Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway

From Samin Nosrat (chef and author of Good Things and Salt Fat Acid Heat) and Hrishikesh Hirway (creator and host of the podcast Song Exploder), Home Cooking is back with a brand new season. If you need help in the kitchen, or just want some creative inspiration, we’ve got you covered. 

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://homecooking.show

**Tags:** cooking, home-cooking, recipes, pantry-cooking, kitchen-tips

## Books

### 1. The Joy of Cooking

**Author:** Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker

American kitchen reference with roughly 4,500 recipes plus sections on technique, ingredients and equipment. Recipe headnotes explain why steps work, so a cook can adapt dishes and handle unfamiliar ingredients without following instructions blindly.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684833573?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, life-skills

### 2. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

**Author:** Samin Nosrat

Samin Nosrat's guide to cooking by principle rather than recipe, built around four elements. You will understand how seasoning, fat, acidity, and heat shape flavor and texture, and be able to adjust and improvise dishes without following exact instructions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476753830?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

## Websites

### 1. seriouseats.com

Serious Eats is a food site that blends cooking science with practical, home-cook friendly recipes and technique guides. It features detailed recipes, step-by-step instructions, and articles on equipment and techniques to help you build foundational cooking skills.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://seriouseats.com

**Tags:** websites, personal-development, life-skills

### 2. budgetbytes.com

Budget Bytes is a budget-friendly food blog offering affordable, easy-to-make recipes. You'll find cost-per-serving breakdowns, meal-prep ideas, shopping lists, and weekly meal plans to help you cook smart on a budget.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://budgetbytes.com

**Tags:** websites, hospitality-tourism, cooking-culinary

### 3. The Kitchn

Home-cooking site from Apartment Therapy Media with step-by-step technique guides, recipes, ingredient explainers, kitchen tips and equipment advice, written by a staff of home cooks to help beginners prepare everyday meals and build confidence with basic kitchen methods.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://thekitchn.com

**Tags:** home-cooking, cooking-techniques, recipes, kitchen-basics

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