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Getting Started
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 three parts: lessons, practice, and feedback.
Lessons
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.
Practice
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.
Feedback
As you go about your learning, you’ll likely have questions you want answered. I’ve created two resources for that— a Telegram group for students of the course, and a custom-trained AI bot that can answer your cooking questions, help you troubleshoot, and offer feedback all in real time.
You can think of this bot as your always-on personal cooking tutor. It’s a custom GPT that’s been trained on everything I’ve ever published online, so it has a ton of context and is really quite helpful! You can ask it for recipe recommendations, ingredient substitutions, or feedback on dishes you’ve cooked. You can even send it photos to ask specific questions about what you’re cooking! The best part of the bot is that it gives you immediate feedback, so you can get questions answered whenever you’re cooking, instead of having to wait for me to see something in the Telegram chat.
You can access the AI Bot at any point by clicking the red chat bubble in the bottom right corner of the course (see the photos below) or you can message the bot on Telegram!
If you’ve got questions for me that can’t be answered by the bot, feel free to send me a message on Telegram or shoot me an email!
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