Delia online cookery school (i.e. how to cook meets you tube)

terra_ferma

(all the experienced cooks please hit the back button , this is really basic stuff... )

I discovered Delia's video lessons a few weeks ago, and I found them really handy for those dishes and techniques I'm not familiar with (I might even try making a souffle...).
It's been very handy for baking, where you need to see the look/consistency at various stages, and no book or website can do that properly.

A friend who can't cook a boiled egg (not a figure of speech...) has been learning very basic stuff like erm... how to boil an egg.
As sometimes we get posters saying the can't cook I though they may find these useful.


So far Delia has done 3 "terms" cakes, eggs and pastry/batters. Breads is due out in May.
Unfortunately the downside is that she really pushes her new line of bakeware, so in the baking sections she doesn't actual help much with alternatives or using existing tins.

http://www.deliaonline.com/deliaonline-cookery-school/term1.html

or

http://www.youtube.com/user/Waitrose/search?query=delia

splishsplash

There's also videojug - really good videos on everything under the sun, including cooking.

terra_ferma

There are a lot of videos out there, the difference I found is that Delia's shows the basic techniques and is great for total beginners who lack confidence.
For example it was great to see the right consistency when making sponge because I'd never seen it before.
If I need inspiration rather than techniques then I'd use other videos or recipes because exciting and innovative Delia isn't (sorry Delia ) . To me it's more like learning from my mum, and she fills the gaps (i.g. my mum was a fantastic cook but never baked hence I didn't have a clue how to make sponge).

Eenymeeny

terra_ferma wrote: »

There are a lot of videos out there, the difference I found is that Delia's shows the basic techniques and is great for total beginners who lack confidence.
For example it was great to see the right consistency when making sponge because I'd never seen it before.
If I need inspiration rather than techniques then I'd use other videos or recipes because exciting and innovative Delia isn't (sorry Delia ) . To me it's more like learning from my mum, and she fills the gaps (i.g. my mum was a fantastic cook but never baked hence I didn't have a clue how to make sponge).

Thanks for that terra_ferma. I know just what you mean about learning from your Mum. Sometimes you just want to see what the mix looks like at a crucial stage, (which is when the camera usually flashes to something completely irrelevant in some of the modern shows)
I've given up on some of them because I get quite dizzy trying to focus on all of the 'clever' angles!
Slow suits me fine... :T

terra_ferma

Yes, I feel there's a difference between entertainment and learning to cook. I love watching cookery programmes, I get inspiration from them, I learn about local products and cuisine from various parts of the UK and the whole world, but I very rarely cook something from them.
I think some are scarce on instructions because they want you to buy the book that inevitably accompanies each tv serie...

Eenymeeny

I agree with you there. I suppose they both fulfil a different need.
I've just watched James Martin make a duck salad, with dressing, for his tv dinner, which he said you could eat with your hands!
Wouldn't suit me, but maybe some people would be happy with it.
I was left wondering who stays in the kitchen to wash up!