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cooking trauma cured, time to cook day 1: omelettes 🍳 🍳 🍳 https://t.co/us1HXXfmGk
reading Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat i feel like a kid. reminded he cannot make mistakes i feel touched to say FUCK THAT to anything thats ever made me feel bad in the kitchen learning is accessible, fun. & i have an ideal cooking parent by my side that’s what this book feels like https://t.co/1wwwAuq4YL
1. watched four youtube tutorials 2. discovered a few different different styles a. french omelettes b. diner omelettes c. tornado street-style korean omelettes 3. learned a few choices i could make, & what they might do a. salting early vs late b. why whisk c. etc that’s it
did one egg each in a tiny pan 1. super cool, moist French omelette. i had no idea omelettes could taste like this 2. regular-ish 🍳, i could feel i liked it too, in a diff way 3. weird fun 🍳 with miso paste, crunchy bottom, soft top, never had anything like this, but amazing??
cooking felt being in a dungeon game. i had a few swords and tools, and knew roughly what they do. could i make it to the french omelette dungeon? could i discover something else? it felt like being informed and supported in the best way
in the beginning, i don’t even know what options i could take, my mind is blocked. but opening up a few options (salt early vs late) opens up others (what about miso paste directly in mix?? what about crunchy bottom soft top??)
there’s bookish learning, and there’s felt learning. i can learn the felt learning by doing. but i need assistance, a good first set of steps i might take not because those steps *are the learning*. but bc they are a good series of steps to *discover the learning*
it’s an entirely different pedagogical philosophy. you’re not handing down the learnings, but crafting a path where they *encounter* the learning otherwise… the students are estranged from the Encounter. the encounter gets hidden behind you. lost to time
thank u to this dumb book and vic wooten https://t.co/WngRzDN8WX
"When there's a note that doesn't work, there's a note on either side of the note that DOES work." NOBODY TELLS YOU THIS. "It's always easy! but we make it hard!". "A minute ago this note didn't work, but now it does. I can *erase* the wrong note by *making music*." Amazing https://t.co/mlhCU45PDU