insideKENT Magazine Issue 63 - June 2017 | Page 86

FOOD+DRINK
STEP UP YOUR COOKING GAME cont.
ONLINE COURSES
Food Techniques
www.bbc.co.uk/food/techniques The Delia Online Cooking School
www.deliaonline.com/cookery-school
For a great start with the basics of cookery, the
BBC Food Techniques website has it all. From
learning how to de-seed tomatoes to
discovering how to deglaze a pan, there are
dozens of tutorial videos that will give you a
fantastic understanding of how things work
in the kitchen – and how to ensure that your
cookery ideas have the best grounding in
sound technique. With videos presented by the one and only
Delia Smith, you are sure to come away from
this website with more than a few ideas of
what to cook for dinner. But more than that,
this is a site you can come back to time and
again, picking the tutorials that suit your needs.
As well as videos, all the instructions are written
out on the website for you, so whether you
like to follow someone else’s lead or try it for
yourself, the choice is yours.
Rouxbe
http://rouxbe.com/cooking-courses
Rouxbe has a variety of different courses for
you to choose from. They start with the basics
for beginners and go right up to expert meal
preparation. Whatever you want to learn more
about cooking there is a course here that will
explain it all, with expert advice along the way.
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Chef Jean Pierre’s Cooking School
www.youtube.com/user/ChefJeanPierre
If you have ever dreamt of being taught how
to cook by a bona fide French chef, Jean
Pierre’s YouTube channel is the place for you.
Packed full of delicious looking dishes that
wouldn’t look out of place on a high-end
dining menu, Chef Jean Pierre makes it all
look easy. But he also makes it perfectly
possible for anyone who is following his
lessons if tortolloni a la vodka or horseradish
crusted salmon are your kind of dishes,
excitable Jean Pierre is your kind of chef.
Maangchi
www.youtube.com/user/Maangchi/
Maangchi is a seriously clever Korean chef,
and she has uploaded a plethora of exotic and
exciting recipe tutorials to YouTube. She’s fun
to watch even if you don’t want to do any
cooking, but if you do want to join in then
make sure you have a finger ready on the
pause button because once she gets going
she goes fast!