Cooking Games

  How fundamentals quietly outperform long ingredient lists Introduction 🌿 Modern cooking culture loves spectacle. Stacked ingredients. Exotic spices. Multi-step recipes that read like instruction manuals for a small aircraft. Scroll any food feed and you’ll see it. The message is subtle but constant. Better food comes from more complexity. That idea sounds exciting. It is also mostly wrong. Great cooking rarely comes from fancy recipes. It comes from simple techniques done well. Heat control. Proper seasoning. Timing. Texture awareness. These quiet skills do more for flavor than a shopping cart full of specialty ingredients ever will. This learning article breaks down why fundamentals matter more than flair, how technique multiplies results, and why confident cooks rely on basics long after novelty wears off. Technique Is Transferable, Recipes Are Not 🧠 A recipe works once. A technique works everywhere. Learn how to properly sear protein and you can cook chicken, steak...