Are We All Really Going To Come Out Of Iso Better Cooks?

One of the first lessons you learn moving out of home for the first time is that there are people who are simply born to cook, and those who aren’t. Some people enjoy the meditative experience of getting into a flow in the kitchen, while the other camp simply views it as a one-way highway to stress and overload. And this is more than understandable, as the fast-paced nature of our pre covid-19 lives hardly made for an environment where you’d feel like taking on a recipe at the end of a hard day.

In a way then, when we were gifted a little bit of extra time, isolation helped change our relationship with the food we made every day. And while cooking has long been one of my stronger suits personally, my partner and I have taken great joy from getting her into the kitchen, a place she normally loathes. And now that the stream of great cooking content on @theiconicau’s #IsoEats and places like YouTube (shoutout to the BA test kitchen) is more informative and fun than ever before, there’s info out there that can hold your hand when learning just about any technique.