Every cook, cooking smarter
ChefSteps exists to inspire creativity and encourage expertise in the kitchen.We develop high-quality content, tools, and resources that will inspire and educate cooks at any skill level. Our team of award-winning chefs, filmmakers, and engineers demonstrates modern culinary concepts with beautiful, compelling visuals, and shows the why’s behind the how’s of every recipe and technique. ChefSteps also provides cooks with the tools they need to connect with others, empowering people worldwide to help each other become more efficient, creative, and successful in the kitchen.
Cooking is an ancient art and science, an accumulated body of knowledge passed down through generations, which we modify every day. At ChefSteps, we’re recording that evolution in real time: Our classes, recipes, techniques, and videos give you the foundational knowledge and inspiration you need to build on the traditions and discoveries of others, and to begin to break the rules to create your own recipes and techniques. Here, we will all grow and learn from each other’s triumphs and failures, as we shape new culinary traditions for the next generation of cooks.
Getting Started
Weigh Ingredients
All of our recipes are measured in weight, rather than volume. We firmly believe that weighing ingredients makes cooking easier, faster, and more fun. If you haven’t yet tried it, trust us: it will change your life.Scales are only $20 .
Embrace New Ingredients
Some of our recipes call for unfamiliar ingredients. We come from professional cooking backgrounds, so we’re used to adding a little guar gum, xanthan, and soy lecithin to our recipes from time to time. (And though these ingredients may sound like chemicals, they’re actually all derived from natural sources.) Part of our mission here at ChefSteps is to make the unfamiliar familiar. We’ll show you where to buy anything you can’t find at your local grocery store, and we’ll also explain how and why different ingredients work. If you need help finding solutions or substitutions, just ask!
Measure Heat
Understanding how heat flows in the kitchen will sharpen your culinary intuition, preparing you to handle any culinary challenge, and ensuring better results more often. We encourage you to invest in a digital thermometer (they’re only $20, too ) as most of our recipes rely on accurate temperature measurement.
Get Connected
We believe that cooking is inherently communal. That’s why we maintain a lively forum on the site that’s dedicated to the exchange of ideas. We visit the forum regularly to answer your questions and marvel at your creations. We create much of our content based on your suggestions, interests, and feedback, so please keep in touch, and we’ll do the same.
No Equipment? No Problem.
We use some high-tech equipment that’s not available to every cook. But that doesn’t mean this site is not for you. Whenever possible, we show you where to buy the stuff you may not have, but you don’t need to spend a fortune to try new things. We’ve devised some home cooking methods that achieve great results without all the equipment. The bottom line is: Just because you don’t have the exact equipment listed in our recipes, doesn’t mean you can’t do it. We challenge ourselves to think creatively about how to get around limitations in price, space, and availability, and we hope you will, too.
Get Resources
Great cooks need great tools and great resources to succeed. We sell a curated collection of our favorite kitchen tools in our online shop, and we provide links to other resources you might find helpful. If you love old fashioned cookbooks—we do too!—we sell a selection of the very best.
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