Calling all cooks!
Cooking is a very complex and fascinating craft. Over many years I observed many cultures and methods of cooking. I believe we can distill down some fundamental principles of cooking into basic rules. These rules will help and apply to any level of cook that is on a pathway to become a better more confident cook. If you were to follow these rules your journey would be shorter than otherwise to achieving greatness. No, I do not know them. But I am writing you to hopefully find out.
So, I need your help. To get you started I will set some rules that these commandments should follow.
Basic rules of commandments:
1) The commandment should be simple in nature.
2) The commandment should be universal to all cooking.
3) A few examples or applications should validate the commandment, yes there are always a few exceptions.
Examples are:
1) Use freshest ingredients possible, you can not bring meat and veg back form the dead.
2) Learn solid knife skills. You only risk harming yourself and degrading the food quality.
3) Spend money on good ingredients before fancy tools. Although painful, can make amazing food with poor equipment but not poor ingredients.
4) Use as few ingredients as possible, only adding more ingredients when needed.
5) Organization and paranoia are your friends. The kitchen is a busy and dynamic environment. Keep track of progress and measure what you can to have future reference.
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There are so many commandments that would be interesting, but I really want your help with finding them and filtering to 10. I am looking for something that provides structure for people first learning to cook but any experienced chef would agree with the rules and still follows them late in their career.
