Reddit reviews Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook

If you can't seem to master regular recipes, I'd just stick with the premade baby food. It's not that pricey (of course, it's more expensive than making it yourself) and it's super easy to use. I consider myself a better than average cook/recipe follower, and I had trouble keeping up with making baby food for my 9 month old.

If you're looking to learn how to cook, I'd recommend buying an actual cookbook. Following recipes online is great, but old school cookbooks have a whole section in the front that teach you the basics. I like this one by Better Homes and Gardens, or How to Cook Everything

I feel like most "comprehensive" cookbooks do have guides like these! At least, my mother's old Better Homes & Gardens one does. The front and back inner covers have conversion charts and quick notes, and each section explains the specifics of foods (temperatures, cuts of meat, etc) in more detail. Can't say it looks as cool. A general cookbook like that is shockingly useful for learning how to cook, instead of just recipes. Highly recommend.

Not a book but I am obsessed with Good Eats on the cooking channel. It breaks very specific food items down into the why and hows of prepairing and cooking it. Easy to follow and if you only catch 2 or 3 of the tips or techniques from the show and use them it helps. Otherwise I have a very old Better Homes cookbook that is my go to. It's probably the 1960's version, but I love it.

Buy a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook or some other good cookbook and learn to cook for yourself.

You save a ton of money and food you make yourself is almost invariably better than anything that is affordable on a college student's budget and is premade.

NTA.

Cooking isn't hard. Christmas is coming. Give him this: https://www.amazon.com/Better-Homes-Gardens-New-Cookbook/dp/0553577956/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1BMWWQ55670HN&keywords=better+homes+and+gardens+cookbook&qid=1572833679&sprefix=Better+homes+and+gard%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-3

Hell, give me your address and I'll send it to him for you.

My wife cooks 99% of the time in our house. I may not eat everything (Butternut Squash soup just isn't for me) but sometimes she apologizes because it's similar or not creative. My response: "I didn't cook, you did so, as far as I'm concerned, it's great!"

BF needs a wake up call.

Maybe it's because we're all from the South, but every household in my family for generations has the Better Home and Gardens NEW COOKBOOK.


It's the bible of how to cook hundreds of different types of foods. It's been in publication since 1930 and it is tried and true. (Disclaimer: this is soul food, not health food)