Learn Basic Kitchen Skills from celebrity chefs

I have been able to use a knife and done a bit of cooking since I was a teenager. I was looking to revisit my basics and maybe use a Chinese chefs knife to chop up stuff finely and with great speed. I didn't find that, but what I did find is this great video which teaches basic kitchen techniques like chopping, making omelet's, roast chicken, grilling a steak, making a stew(Beef bourguignon), spaghetti sauce and even burgers.

Part - 1

This is basically an episode from the TV series No Reservations - Techniques by Anthony Bourdain. In this episode he invites a couple of his friends who happen to be pretty famous -Jacques Pepin, Thomas Keller, and Laurent Tourondel.

Jacques Pépin has written numerous books. His La Technique is used to this day as a textbook for teaching the fundamentals of French cuisine. In his recently relaunched PBS television series The Complete Pépin, in the introduction, he stressed that now more than ever the secret to being a successful chef and not a mere line cook lies in knowing and using the proper technique. Pépin also co-starred in award-winning 1999 PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home with Julia Child.

Part -2

Thomas Keller and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997. The restaurant is a perennial winner in the annual Restaurant Magazine list of the Top 50 Restaurants of the World. He is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants, the second for his restaurant Per Se in New York.

Part - 3

Laurent Tourondel founded the BLT Steak empire after traveling the world and pioneered the New american bistro concept. Tourondel recently split from BLT partner Jimmy Haber and they divvied up the restaurants between them. He has also written Bistro Laurent Tourondel: New American Bistro Cooking and Fresh from the Market which have received rave reviews. 


New cook or Old experienced kitchen hand these videos are fun to watch