Everyone should learn to cook! Because one day, you’ll need it. And the smartest time to start learning is when you’re a teenager.
Why?
Because you have maximum time to build your skills, you get to learn safely with the support of your parents.
Because your family benefit from your cooking and you benefit from their feedback.
And because UpCooked contains FREE and easy dinner recipes for teenagers to make, designed to help them build cooking skills one simple step by step recipe at a time.
Pretty good reasons to start now aren’t they?
We built UpCooked for teenagers (beginners of any age will benefit too – but the site mostly talks to teenagers). And we tested it on teenagers. And it fixes some specific problems with most other recipes (which make other recipes not good for teenagers to learn from).
Straight to easy but tasty recipes
First, teenagers don’t often know where to start with learning to cook. There are countless recipes online, and it can be hard to sift through them all to find one that the teenager has a chance of success with.
On UpCooked, we have organised our recipes on different levels. Our level 1 recipes are ‘training recipes’ and the best way to use them is to sign up by email to get them in your inbox. Each one teaches a new cooking skill. But when you’re confident, you can jump to level 2 recipes, or even put requests in for us to create you unique and unusual recipes that you’re looking for. We have plenty of easy dinner recipes for teenagers to make, so you’ll find something you’ll like.
Simple micro-steps you can’t go wrong with!
Second, most recipes are quite hard to follow comfortably. They often don’t sequence steps in an easy to follow way. And they usually contain long paragraphs of instructions that become hard to follow when something is boiling over on the stove! With UpCooked, we break down each instruction into single, simple steps which you can cross off by checking the box once done. So you never lose your place, and each step is manageable! Before you know it, you’ve just created an amazing meal for the family!
We also make a point of including everything you’ll need to cook each meal, from ‘how-to’ videos and support pages, and our ‘Big 5 skills’ which teach you the essential must-knows if you want to succeed safely and confidently.
The other thing you’ll discover is that our recipes are often a cut above the rest! That’s because we’ve taken the common parts of some of the very best recipes out there, and built recipes around those common things that work. But we’ve also added our own twists. None of our recipes are copied from anywhere. We build them, based on what works, and test them. But if you ever notice any errors or improvements then please get in touch and help us improve UpCooked!
How UpCooked uses accelerated learning too!
You may also be interested to know that the recipes and entire learning process central to UpCooked is based on specific accelerated learning principles. UpCooked was designed and built by father and daughter, Mark and Ellie. And Mark ran an accelerated learning consultancy for many years. For more on accelerated learning, you can see Mark’s blog here: https://markmoore.co/
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