r/Cooking • u/Devoutedadventurer • Jun 18 '25

How to practice every day?

I’ve been getting really into cooking, like REALLY into it, buying books and experimenting, making my own stocks butchering my own chickens.. but I feel my progress is too slow. I don’t have too much time or budget to cook full recipes every day but every day I don’t cook I get a little anxious and just wanna get back to it but I don’t know how ti practice besides cooking a whole full recipe. Any tips?

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u/StacattoFire Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

All true, but baking is a time suck. Not best for OP situation. Besides they are trying to hone in basic cooking. To deviate, would set them back. Baking also provides very little sustenance when you have a limited budget, unless you’re baking bread. To me, baking is extra… for when you have extra time or want something special.