1. How To Use This Course

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Welcome to 80/20 Cooking!

This course is a minimalist guide that you can use to learn the fundamentals of cooking. It’s entirely self-paced and consists of two parts: lessons and practice.

The first part of the course includes 11 lessons on major important topics related to cooking. It covers basics like stocking your kitchen and pantry, as well as practical lessons in things like using salt, using acidity, understanding heat, knife skills and more. These lessons are a mixture of written content, photos, and videos.

You can take these lessons at your own pace— I’ve tried to make them as concise, straightforward, and informative as possible. I recommend doing one or two lessons per day, but you’re more than welcome to binge the whole stack in one sitting.

The second part of the course consists of 18 recipes/techniques/methods that you can try on your own. These all reference concepts introduced in the course, contain step-by-step photo instructions to guide you along, and are designed to help you put the concepts from the lessons into practice.

The only way that you can really get good at cooking is by getting into the kitchen and practicing. These recipes are designed to get you doing just that.

The practice dishes here are all built around core methods and techniques that I think every home cook should know, and I’ve included a few from each major category— eggs, meat, vegetables, etc. Once you’ve mastered all of these, you should have a good basic repertoire. After you get comfortable with them, you can use them as starting points to customize and experiment on your own.

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