Men who love to cook, what are your goto sources for recipes/inspiration?

kyledontcare · 2021-01-16T20:40:19+00:00

Food wishes on YouTube. Chef John makes everything seem so easy.

Cr0ssedPaths · 2021-01-16T21:32:27+00:00

Alton Brown. While he does recipes, they are really lessons on how the ingredients come together. He evolves over time, and is willing to say that he’s found better ways sometimes. Constantly learn, do better than before, and the journey can be a reward.

ToANewMe · 2021-01-16T20:46:03+00:00

I like Guga Foods on youtube a lot. Mostly meat and bbq. Otherwise just look up recipes for stuff online and then improvise.

ActOutside4853 · 2021-01-16T21:06:54+00:00

I have lived subsistence or very humble for decades, but was able to express creative cooking by always experimenting with basic ingredients, and searching for the simplest ways to prepare them.

Experimentation does not require a large budget or selection. You can still learn myriad ways to make corn cakes...

Doing more with less is powerful.

PhazonAran · 2021-01-16T20:59:45+00:00

Since I'm french, the now retired french chef Michel Dumas, comme ça.

Comprehensive_Bus525 · 2021-01-16T20:48:16+00:00

It’s funny how I know far more men than women who love to cook, and do it well. I learned to cook because I like to eat well. When you have power over all ingredients, you can eat very healthily.

I love making both bread and beans and rice.

One of the first cookbooks to really inspire me was “The Silver Palate”. It had recipes that are more complicated than a lot of cookbooks.

I’ve recently been playing with vital wheat gluten for whole-grain breads. Helps with it rising as it helps hold in the C02 bubbles.

For beans, I’ve been buying heirloom ones. They’re about 3X as expensive as regular ones but bring interesting flavors and textures.

I often make a black bean, whole wheat bread. A cup of beans per loaf. Adds a healthy protein into the mix.

boarderoonie · 2021-01-16T22:15:01+00:00

I use supercook.com. You just enter all of the stuff you have in your fridge and cupboards, and it pulls up all the recipes you can make. It's pretty cool seeing all of the stuff I can throw together.

closer_1 · 2021-01-17T01:41:47+00:00

Alton Brown and any of the male chefs on the foodtv. Binging with Babish is good too.

madriverdog · 2021-01-17T03:51:42+00:00

Better Homes Cookbook for basic American recipies. as you learn, you will realize that BHC is the basis of many dishes you see online

Public tv has numerous shows and websites with the details for cooking. lots of technique , demos, international dishes. less fluff than the usual TV cooking shows. (if you like Asian check out the food shows on NHK (japan))

Also check out local city-run adult classes. They often have a chef that is moonlighting by teaching classes. I learn (hands-on) something in each class.

lastly, invest in good, gimmick-free pans and a few good knives. They last, never fail, and are easiest to clean and cook with . Check out a local restaurant supply store.

start a small herb patch, and never buy those tiny, old bottles of seasonings. Replant onion ends for endless green onions. When you hike, take note of where foods can be harvested seasonally (nuts, fruit, fungi). Amazing amounts of food on ornamental trees/gardens go to waste in almost every town; yours for the taking.

Isshindoutai29 · 2021-01-17T10:31:13+00:00

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unopdr · 2021-01-16T22:12:23+00:00

I look at recipes as a source of inspiration as well— just a guide to base my meals off of. I usually just google search and see what comes up based on a main ingredient that I want to utilize. If you’re interested in some healthy meals, you can check out Joe Wicks. He came out with a line of meal prep books called Lean In 15. Basically healthy meals that you could make in 15 mins. Good luck!

Chad_Thunderfist · 2021-01-16T22:31:03+00:00

I use the app 'yummly'. You can find pretty much anything, and itll pull the directions/sources from blogs, which i find to tyoically have the best recipes

alphastrike212 · 2021-01-16T23:44:57+00:00

En français, chef Etchebest sur youtube.

rayedward363 · 2021-01-17T00:46:10+00:00

Sometimes it's as simple as seeing or eating something that makes me go, "Huh, that goes well together. I wonder..." and other times I subscribe to the "cooking is a art" mentality and put in things that seem to go well together. Either way, cooking is an adventure and you fill in the map along the way.

TopDepartment5 · 2021-01-17T01:29:58+00:00

Sam the cooking guy is the best

Gordiflu · 2021-01-17T03:54:34+00:00

Mom & granny, both awesome cooks, taught me most of what I know.

Bitcoin_Bastard · 2021-01-17T06:12:16+00:00

UK TV Chef Jamie Oliver lol. People shit on him because he's super dupey happy all the time. But his recipes are easy to follow, uncomplicated and tasty AF.

He pretty much single handedly created a generation of men in the UK who had zero interest in cooking before to become enthusiastic and decent chefs

My all time fav UK TV chef though was a guy called Kieth Floyd. Sadly no longer with us. He was a serious piss head and for every "splash" of wine he put in the food he would take a MASSIVE gulp from his glass.

By the end of every segment he was so drunk he could barely speak. His dishes always ended looking like a pile of dog vomit and probably 90% booze but he was hugely entertaining and it was such a trainwreck you watch him, you couldn't believe the BBC would employ him let alone feature him regularly in prime time.

FYI this was back in the day when the BBC used to churn out very good non-PC entertainment. It hasn't always been a woke SJW dumpster fire

But yeah Jamie Oliver Double thumbs up

Kieth Floyd pissed out of his mind on one show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezk2Gpr9Wo

ncarolina66 · 2021-01-17T07:00:40+00:00

If you really want to get a good, solid foundation in cooking, check out this video course:

The Great Courses - The Everyday Gourmet

Also, do a search on there website for "Cooking" for several other great DVD courses that are great reference sources.

Youtube is another good course which has many different videos on specific recipes being prepared by different chefs, I go there often to get idea's and see what to do before I start cooking a new recipe. It works well for me.

thehedgehawg · 2021-01-17T07:07:22+00:00

I got a Akorn smoker for Christmas two years ago, and started perusing https://www.smokingmeatforums.com/ As with a lot of things, I have discovered that as I get older I enjoy things with a process and that require a commitment of time... cigars, good Scotch and Bourbon, shaving with an old fashioned razor, making my own esspresso, etc.

41ph4 · 2021-01-17T10:36:25+00:00

I just do random Google searches for a recipe. I look through about 5 different recipes, and see what they do the same and what they do different. then I take the parts they do different and pick my favorite bits, and give it a try. if its good, I write it down as my own recipe since its several different techniques rolled into one. This has been my way of making food for the past 7 years. never made a dud.

nigelh · 2021-01-17T11:05:07+00:00

Google. Strangely the best ones, the ones with enough detail to try and succeed first time seem to be from the BBC.

Vidar34 · 2021-01-17T12:36:56+00:00

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ was a good source of information, when it got updated regularly.

Rexyness17 · 2021-01-17T14:26:37+00:00

Ethan Chlebowski https://youtube.com/c/CookwithE

He makes everything super easy while focusing on techniques to cook food right and perfect

doyoupeeintheshower · 2021-01-18T16:39:03+00:00

I always wanted to learn how to make New York Cheesecake. I researched YouTube videos, found all the tips that more than one sources were mentioning and wrote them down in Evernote. I also checked comment sections in reddit posts, and figured out what all the recipes had in common and wrote those things down too. Then I started with a base recipe that seemed easy enough and had great reviews and applied all the tips (as long as they made sense). The research part took me about 20-30 minutes a day for a week. Then I made about 5 cheesecakes in the span of 3 weeks with different variations and trying new things as soon as I had a very good result. I am now making the meanest New York Cheesecake there is.

I did the exact same thing after going for hunting and coming back with a 80kg wild boar. Never cooked it in my life. I failed miserably a couple of times but once you understand how the meat needs to be cooked and the differences from cooking a regular type of meat, you can create an amazing dish with it. My approach is to pick an ingredient or a dish that I want to learn to cook and never give up unless I learn how to masterfully cook it. There are not a lot of stuff that I can cook very well, but the ones that I do, I master.

One small tip that also works for me is this: when cooking for yourself, feel free to experiment; when you're cooking for others make the stuff that you are very familiar with (helps with keeping the passion for cooking alive).

The above works when it comes to the inspiration part that you mentioned too: if you have a specific ingredient in mind, it becomes much easier to find sources of inspiration and not get lost in endless bouncing around completely different recipes. Start with something that you always wanted to try and focus on that one thing. There are tons of different recipes one google search away.

Title	Men who love to cook, what are your goto sources for recipes/inspiration?
Author	Mryoyo99
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Date	January 16, 2021 8:34 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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