Best cookbooks 2016 for beginners should not only have great recipes, but they must also provide a basic education on food and cooking. A beginner's best cookbook 2016 must provide some basic cooking education. That first best cookbook 2016 can be the difference between enjoying great homemade family meals versus giving up and resorting back to take-out and fast-food. It is especially important for beginners to have real working recipes that are simple, easy to follow and works to produce a great tasting meal consistently.
You can pick-up a recipe with list of ingredients and steps, and then execute it. For example, a baking recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour may need to be lightly "spooned in" to the measuring cup and leveled off with a butter knife. A beginner might just scoop up a packed/dense heaping cup of flour that would be way too much. A simple step like measuring out a cup of flour is not that obvious to a beginner. Imagine what else they may do without some basic cooking education.
Beginners need a cookbook that discusses kitchen equipment, how to use one and even better, make solid recommendations on functionality, quality and price. Another great example is checking your oven. In my favorite cookbook, one of the first things it talks about is checking your oven temperature. Oven temperature readings are often inaccurate. You may follow and execute a recipe perfectly, but if your oven temperature is wrong, that dish is not going to come out right. A great cookbook will help a beginner (and even experienced cooks) to avoid these kind of cooking issues.
