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I'm Jack and I'm a chef and I own three
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restaurants in London this is how I
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would learn to cook if I could start
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again I'm going to break it down into
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eight different steps that I think will
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help make you a better cook step one
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first steps you got to find your passion
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for food if you don't love food you're
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not going to enjoy cooking it's as
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simple as that now you have to
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experience the dishes that you want to
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recreate to know what you're looking for
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or equally if you don't want to follow
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recipe and want to create your own
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things you need to at least have a a
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passion for different ingredients and
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coming up with new combinations and new
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flavors but you have to enjoy eating and
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you have to enjoy the process of
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discovering new tastes as a fundamental
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First Step before you start cooking step
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two start with the basics nobody likes
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doing it but you got to learn the
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fundamentals how to season basic knife
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skills uh learning to develop your
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palette learning to understand your
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palette get a classic cookbook learn how
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to make all the basic sources um learn
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how to roast uh simple cuts of meat well
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well seasoned
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efficiently um and then learn some basic
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preparation techniques how to dice an
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onion Dice and cucumbers dicing turnips
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etc etc using the right equipment for
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the job knowing which pan to use for
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certain things which frying pans which
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sauce pan using the right utensils the
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utensils are designed for a reason um so
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don't be an idiot and use the right tool
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like a lot of other young Cooks is
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always trying to over complicate things
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too soon don't start making and stuffing
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chicken breasts with cheese and whatnot
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and all these other mushrooms and
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wrapping it in this and wrapping it in
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that before you've learned the basics of
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how to cook don't mess around with those
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Basics until you have a fundamental very
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strong Foundation step three find your
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style you're going to cook your best
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When You Believe In what you're cooking
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so find dishes that excite you Cuisines
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that excite you uh flavor combinations
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that excite you it might be a restaurant
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uh you've been to that has certain
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ingredients that you like go out buy
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those ingredients buy a cookbook to that
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has does that cuisine experiment with
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those flavors that you know you're
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already excited by uh because you're not
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going to get excited by just cooking a
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Cuisine because your wife says she wants
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that meal for dinner it's got to excite
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you or you're not going to fully believe
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in it step four cook to entertain
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through honest and constructive
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criticism is how you're going to learn
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the best you're going to learn the
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fastest you're going to get honest
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feedback from your friends and family we
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have to take that criticism on board and
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learn to improve through that way
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exactly like we do in a restaurant where
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we would take feedback from customers or
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other employees and um through reviews
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or mystery shoppers and then you use
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that information to get better getting
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out of your comfort zone makes you learn
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about yourself step five step up your
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game now you've mastered some fun some
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fundamental Basics you can now layer
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your Basics up with some more complex uh
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sauces garnishes uh meat or fish
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preparation techniques but using those
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more Advanced Techniques to complement
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your basic foundation so if you've just
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if your basic technique is that you've
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learned to roast the chicken perfectly
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you're then going to compliment that
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with a maybe a more elaborate source and
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then you're just going to build levels
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of experience levels of flavor you can
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now invest in some useful tools a sharp
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knife is a an essential piece of
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equipment now that knife does not need
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to be expensive but you need to learn
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how to keep it sharp that is a skill
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that lot lot a lot not a lot of people
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have you can also invest in something
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like a meat probe or meat thermometer um
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this will give you a little bit more um
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consistency and precision with your
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Clipper step six understanding your food
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a recipe will only take you so far I say
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to our chefs all the time like you can
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give a thousand people the same recipe
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you'll get a thousand different results
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um it relies on Instinct and intuition
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um and how you interpret things you know
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I can say cook an onion for 5 minutes
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but it's going to depend on what heat
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you've got it on what pan you've got it
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in what's the surface area of that pan
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there's so many variables so you've got
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to cook with a little bit of uh use your
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brain use your intuition go to your
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local green go to fishmonger Butcher and
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just have an honest conversation talk to
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them what's in season what's good price
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what's good value today Often by eating
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seasonally you can actually eat a lot
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more affordably as well buying
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a out of season um cabbage in the middle
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of the summer is going to be very
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expensive and and have a lot of air Ms
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whereas eating with the seasons will be
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more beneficial for your wallet um and
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also better for the environment and
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better for flavor if you're used to
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buying chicken thighs from the
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supermarket Market boneless skinless
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chicken thighs uh try buying a whole
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chicken uh split it into three or four
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meals use the thighs one day the breast
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another day use the bones to make a
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stock or a soup or a Ramen test yourself
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push yourself uh go that extra mile step
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seven the journey never ends I've been
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goog in kitchen since I was 14 uh when I
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used to work parttime with my Dad I'm
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still learning new stuff every day from
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all the young chefs that we employ from
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all the different cultures and
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backgrounds they come from you've got to
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take inspiration and you've got to learn
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from everything that's around you you
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can find inspiration in the smallest
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things whether it's going to e out in a
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restaurant seeing a beautiful ingredient
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in a market or having a conversation
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with another young Chef step eight keep
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cooking for me I love cooking because I
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like to be able to zone now forget about
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everything else that's going on just
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focus on what I'm cooking in front of me
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and it's not necessarily The Joy of
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Eating that product afterwards it's the
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joy of giving it to someone else and
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seeing their reaction for me personally
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in the restaurant I get so so much
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satisfaction is into cooking and looking
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around the restaurant and seeing all
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these people enjoying the food um that's
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where I get the most enjoyment and the
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most satisfaction from keep practicing
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and keep trying new things and it should
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be a fun experience thanks for watching
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