| I'm on the other end of this in a way. I think it may come from having to read and write all day every day. Sometimes just having somebody yak at me for a few minutes is useful. I really enjoy watching instructional videos, especially for recipes. The demo of the cooking techniques is almost always hard to write or talk about, and easy to show. In the kitchen it works this way for me: 1. Watch the video once or twice all the way through to "learn it" and decide if it's what I want to do. 2. Put together my mise en place and basic prep for the recipe. Learning to do this was a game changer. 3. Finally, put it on my phone or tablet in my kitchen and let it play while I work, it's mostly audio at this point as I've "seen" the content a few times but I'm just listening as if the video is a coach. I'll hit pause at the major steps, and scrub back if I need a refresher on a technique or step. I've gotten through some very complex dishes this way, and never hit the equivalent rhythm using cookbooks or recipe websites. The audio part of step 3 is really critical to me as it helps me focus on the food rather than remembering all the steps and it's just fills up the background space in my kitchen or act as a coach. The only way it would be better for me is if it automatically paused after each step and I could then ask it "what next?" or "go back two steps, I missed a step" or some other audio prompt. |