Cooking and Buying from the Market

Following are the skills, we think, everyone must know:

Basics

• Cooking Rice
• Making a Roti
• Cutting onions, tomatoes and other common foods
• Identifying spoilt vegetables from healthy ones; and buying them from the market
• Buying grains in the market - rice, wheat, tur dal, moong dal
• Making a dosa
• Boiling potatoes, sweet potatoes
• Knowing exceptions for normal curry-procedures
• Knowing which utensils to use when
• Knowing proper cleaning/maintainace procedures for tools and appliances used in the kitchen
• Knowing the grinder
• [If you eat eggs] Boiling eggs, making an Omlette
• [If you eat meat] Identifying good meat and buying it from the market

Intermediate

• Common breakfast items: poha, upma, sheeraa
• Making dough for paratha and roti
• Cooking curry-less vegetables
• Making or extending a vegetable curry, dal
• Making food for ill people
• Using the grinder to make onion-paste, batter for south-indian foods; fruit juices
• [If you eat eggs] Making egg curry
• [If you eat meat] Cooking meat

Advanced

• Adapting recipes, and making do with whatever you have

First Aid Uses of various commonly available items

• Spotting, diagnosing and treating common stomach ache
• Treating common cold
• Treating fever
• Treating the side effects of spices (Eg. milk/bread on overly spicy foods)

Nutritive intuitions of common foods

• Spotting signs of nutrient deficiency, and identifying deficient nutrient
• Knowing which food items are rich in which nutrients

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PS: You should be able to find satisfactory explanations for each of these over the internet, especially Youtube. Nevertheless, we will add links to them soon.