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Reasons Why The Internet Is So Useful For Cooking
One of the biggest reasons the internet is so important for this culture is because of the pictures. I know when I am cooking something for the first time I like to see what the finished products should look like. It helps me to know if I am doing it right and if it turned out like it was supposed to. A lot of the cookbooks that I have don’t show pictures so it’s a lot harder to figure out how it should look when completed. This post is a perfect example of a link that shows you step by step pictures of one recipe. Going along with pictures, video that are shared on the internet can be very helpful as well. professionals and amateurs post videos of them cooking and doing step by step instructions explaining everything thoroughly. He is an example from YouTube of the Famous chef, Bobby Flay making salmon. [youtube]http://youtu.be/4lPZHM_ord8[/youtube]
A third reason the internet is so helpful and useful to this community is because there are tons of different ways to cook each meal and when people post asking about a meal, others comment with their own recipes, or recipes from the web. Instead of just one way to do it from a cookbook, they can get 100 different ways and choose which one sounds best to them, or try multiple different ones. For example, Chicken Cordon Bleu is simple to make, but there are different ways to do it. If you follow the Allrecipes.com version of it, you dont use breadcrumbs and you use ham. If you go to Myrecipes.com, you would use proscuitto and you would use breadcrumbs. I personally like doing it the Myrecipes.com way, but to each his own, and having the internet allows you to choose which you like best. Another simple fact is that cookbooks cannot talk back to you, or answer questions you may have. When you have an engaged community and people willing to help, it makes the cooking process a lot easier and more fun. I know I don’t like to fail when attempting to cook something for the first time and if I knew about this site earlier, it would have made my life a lot easier and I could have learned a lot more from professionals and serious amateur cooks.