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What would you want to see in an educational cooking channel? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been having this idea pretty much ever since I started culinairy school but haven't been able to flush out how I want to do this.

My idea is to start a cooking channel on YouTube (yeah I know there's already thousands of those, it'd be for my own education and enjoyment mostly) but don't do your basic recipe videos. I want to go into basics, explain cooking techniques and their origin. A bit of a mix between Binging With Babish and Tasting History but try to be more "like an actual culinairy school", if you know what I mean by that. I'm already writing a few script ideas, about produce/equipment knowledge or one about techniques you'll find in almost all recipes for example. still thought I'd come and ask the lovely folks here about what they'd want to see.

So, I'm wondering: Let's say you have little to no cooking experience. Maybe frying an egg seems like a challenge to you already. What would you want to see on a youtube channel to help you start cooking. What knowledge do you feel you're missing to start preparing meals and understand what you're doing?

I'm not expecting a lot of responses, but if I can find out what people who pretty much never cook feel is holding them back, then that would be an amazing starting point for me.

Edit: i wouldn't mind ideas for a channel name either. :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've looked and haven't found anything to my satisfaction. I found that pretty much all channels either give you too much details in way too much of a robotic way or they don't go deep enough into a subject. I'm not gonna say I'm gonna have a easy time finding the middle ground myself, but I do feel there's still a place for that on YouTube and at least I feel I have the required knowledge for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What about Kenji Lopez-Alt?

I think he gives a lot of great detail on techniques like braising, deglazing, etc. but in an approachable way. Maybe you see some things you think you could improve on, but his channel seems like a great place to use as a reference for the kind of content you're aiming for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well feel free to drop a DM to me directly when you get it up and running and I'll give it a look, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will do. Currently writing, editing and such will be a whole new and different beast. Don't expect anything soon haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adam Ragusea is good for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Adam and he's done a great job at demystifying a lot of what cooking is. I still do feel his channel is still leaning a bit too heavily on the assumption people have some cooking knowledge. When he goes into a topic he does thst super well, but he doesn't offer the basic and broad knowledge I seek to offer.