Back to Basics: The Cooking Mindset
Dinner SOS by Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Back to Basics Week! All week, Chris and his Bon Appétit colleagues are answering listener questions about the fundamentals of cooking, to help level you up as a home cook.
In this final installment, Chris and Shilpa talk about the intangibles of cooking— how to get into the right mindset, manage your time efficiently, and course correct when something goes wrong. They also answer a grab bag of sliiightly more advanced questions to help listeners with everything from salt to the perfect batch of pancakes.
Recipes & Links:
BA's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Lazy Day Pancakes
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, dinner SOS listeners. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome back for our final installment of Back to Basics. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm joined once again by senior test kitchen editor, Shilpa Ascoccovic. |
| 0:15.9 | Hi, Shilpa. |
| 0:16.8 | Hi. |
| 0:18.0 | So, Shilpa, throughout this week, we've taken listeners through a cooking 101 of sorts. |
| 0:24.2 | You and I spoke about reading a recipe and all the things that have to happen before you start |
| 0:30.0 | cooking. A meal helped me break down proteins. Kendra and I talked about cooking grains, |
| 0:36.5 | and then yesterday, Jesse and I talked about sauces. |
| 0:39.8 | All of this was with the aim of helping our listeners gain some confidence in the kitchen. |
| 0:44.6 | But you and I both know, even if you have a recipe and all the ingredients, and you're ready to cook, |
| 0:52.3 | there is one more major thing you need. |
| 0:55.0 | You still have to get in the right headspace. |
| 0:58.0 | Call it intention. |
| 1:00.0 | Call it focus. |
| 1:01.0 | Call it being present. |
| 1:03.0 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:06.0 | The cooking mindset and how to use it to get you started |
| 1:09.0 | and to help you course correct when things don't go |
| 1:12.4 | exactly to plan. We'll also spend some time at the end of the show talking about some questions |
| 1:18.0 | that we got that aren't quite cooking 101, but are still good to know. Maybe think of it like |
| 1:24.2 | our 200-level basics course. |
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