On Cooking: Chef Todd Mohr Videos for the Beginner Cook

As I'd mentioned, formal education has corrupted me enough that I tend to fall back on The Lecture when learning something new. Standing in the kitchen watching an egg cook is fine and all, but the note-taking! The rules/theory/whatever! It's the nerd in me. Give me a sit-down and then bring in the DIYs and Trial and Errors all you want, I'm now Empowered by Information, ha!

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The Reluctant Gourmet (hereafter mostly referred to as RG) has articles upon articles, yes, but let me make a detour:

Chef Todd Mohr of webcookingclasses.com has a youtube channel, too, where he preaches his golden rule: Cooking Methods > Recipes. Which is endorsed by RG. "Cooking is an art form...open to artistic interpretation," Mohr says in the bottommost-and-I-assume-from-a-skim-and-common-sense-also-the-oldest video. Recipes are merely "one person's specific ingredients and...instructions."

Mohr's an engaging speaker, so it's a lot easier to lose track of time going through his videos. Some of note to beginners: tips for Buying Knives, Choosing Pots and Pans, Dicing Onions, and his mini-lectures on the basic cooking methods.