1If you’re anything like me, you’re likely style better at eating than you are at cooking.

As you can imagine, my first foray into feeding myself after moving out of my parents’ house was less than agreeable. After botching one too many mind-numbingly simple-minded banquets, I hit the books to figure out what I was doing incorrectly. As it turns out, that was just about everything.

If you’re off to a rough culinary start, learning these 20 basic skills will do you a world of good. Stop in judgment that these aren’t hacks. They will not learn you how to use a piece of yarn and someone’s left shoe to make a pork roast. They will, nonetheless, help you tackle yummy dishes from this point forward.

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