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Learn to cook five meals

A ready-made journey for anyone who wants to learn to cook five meals: 10 steps, about 6.3 hours in all, in an order that works — work steps of 30 minutes or less, with real-world sessions kept whole.

Opens in Nextep with a two-minute first step lit. Free, and no account needed to begin.

When it's useful

When you have decided to learn to cook five meals but the first move is fuzzy. Nextep shows one step at a time, keeps the rest in order, and never calls anything overdue — a day that slips simply becomes today.

The steps

1. 1Pick the cuisine or 5 dishes you want to nail20 min
2. 2List the pantry staples those dishes need15 min
3. 3Shop for the staples30 min
4. 4Watch or read the base technique those dishes are built on25 min
5. 5Practise the base technique oncetime block · 30 min
6. 6Cook dish one, exactly to the recipetime block · 60 min
7. 7Cook dish one again and change one thingtime block · 60 min
8. 8Cook dish one for someone elsetime block · 60 min
9. 9Pick dish two and read its recipe twice15 min
10. 10Cook dish twotime block · 60 min

Work steps over 30 minutes are split into parts when you start, so they fit somewhere in a day; sessions — a run, an appointment, a call — stay whole.