Lesson 1: Learning the Important Attitude for Kitchen Success

Lesson 1: Learning the Important Attitude for Kitchen Success
A lot of beginners are having a hard time of being in the kitchen for seemingly weird reasons. Some of these are:

• Afraid of what to do in the kitchen (sounds familiar?)
• Afraid of using the kitchen utensils. (Not only afraid. But doesn’t know what utensil it is)
• Afraid of making mistakes.

What we can draw is the keyword AFRAID. Why afraid? These people are usually afraid because they were programmed and have allowed themselves to be swallowed by the social norm of NOT MAKING MISTAKES. But we will not talk about the norms here. Hey, were going to take on Cooking lessons. Cooking lesson for beginners.

First things first
As like any important event, task or in this case, work, we need to look at what is our goal in learning how to cook? Where are we going to go once learning all the secrets to a great menu? Why.. How? When.. Where?
We need to look at You. Yes You.. Why do you want to cook?

“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”.

Do you want to learn how to cook because you offer this to a special someone? (Yipee!)

Do you want to know how to cook because you want to impress someone or you may want to wet those taste buds?

We may have varied reasons of wanting to know how to cook, but it’ll all boil down to your intention.

First, you must have the intention. Not just plain intention; but deep, strong, and powerful intention.

Second, we need to have the discipline. Because knowing how to cook will allow us to be disciplined individuals. It will require your patience, your time, your energy. It will require you (O Oh! Will you continue learning how to cook?). (Laugh) Seriously, you will those attitudes there

Third, we need to be reflective on our mistakes. Yes mistakes! We will experience cooking right. Cooking half-cooked or even cooking incorrectly. We need to look at our mistakes so we can see further in improving our style, improving the quality of our food.

“Experience is the best teacher”.
That is what they say. I totally disagree! Our reflection of our experience is the best teacher. Come to think of it, there are lots of old people (say 60 years old and above) who don’t even know how to correctly cook Adobe (A Filipino cuisine), correctly cook Steak (American meal). Right? Again, I say, our reflection of our experiences will be our best teacher!

Fourth, go get your stuff!

We’ll be starting to cook tomorrow!

I guess you may want to read an INTRO (click here)

For now, I want you to reflect on these insights and tips.
Hoping that we can journey well on the road of great cooking!

Ciao,

Van
Your friendly kitchen guru.