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post #1 of 9
1/20/10 at 3:39pm
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http://rouxbe.com/

No affiliation but fiancée is interested in improving her cooking skills and I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on this. Doesn't seem too bad to my very, very uninformed eye.

The other options are to read some books, watch something like Food Network or go to a cooking class at a community college or wherever.

Any suggestions from the resident experts?
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post #2 of 9
1/21/10 at 2:39am
I really like it. I have a lifetime membership.

There's really two sections:

1. Video recipes

2. Cooking school

The recipes are good - not exceedingly difficult to execute and the videos are spot on. Good detail, visuals, and breakouts of unfamiliar terms. The stuff I've made has generally been very tasty.

The cooking school is definitely more fundamental and not recipe driven. For someone without any formal culinary background, it's been very informative and interesting. Will it make you into a great chef, probably not, but will it make you at least more proficient at being a home chef, sure.

I think it certainly beats just picking up a cookbook - the video really adds an element above and beyond just words on a page, in my opinion. They usually have one cooking school lesson free to see at a time, so check out a few and see if it's something worth picking up.
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post #3 of 9
1/21/10 at 4:22am
I think their videos and recipes are well thought out. I enjoyed it when I had a free membership; I'm just not interested in paying for it now, given that I have almost no time to cook. You should get a membership for your fiancee. It'd be well worth it if she came out of it with the ability to whip up a decent egg omelette at 3am when you're shit faced.
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post #4 of 9
1/21/10 at 4:37am
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Originally Posted by Jumbie View Post
http://rouxbe.com/

No affiliation but fiancée is interested in improving her cooking skills and I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on this. Doesn't seem too bad to my very, very uninformed eye.

The other options are to read some books, watch something like Food Network or go to a cooking class at a community college or wherever.

Any suggestions from the resident experts?

I used it when i had a free membership. The videos were really good. I got some tasty recipes out of it and they come out well.

http://rouxbe.com/recipes/58-lemon-parmesan-orzo/text

^^ is delicious. I don't make it with orzo though. I use these little pastas the size of a BB because when i first tried the recipe, I couldn't find orzo. When I did find orzo, I found i prefered the other pasta.
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post #5 of 9
1/21/10 at 9:09pm
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I was really only interested in the lessons as it's pretty easy to find a ton of recipes online and what not but you guys have made me interested in the recipes as well. I think I may go for it. Maybe just start out with a trial month and see how she likes it and go from there if she thinks it's worth it. From doing a few quick searches it seems like they've been around for a few years at least.
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post #6 of 9
1/21/10 at 9:11pm
If you want me to teach her how to cook, let me know.
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post #7 of 9
1/21/10 at 9:47pm
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^ Spaghetti and meatball?
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post #8 of 9
1/23/10 at 10:06am
I've never seen a site like this. For a home cooking type of guy like me I'll use this site alot.
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post #9 of 9
1/23/10 at 10:15am
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Originally Posted by Jumbie View Post
^ Spaghetti and meatball?

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