Culinary Technology & Baking and Pastry Arts

Covers all the food groups as well as knife skills and napkin folding.

Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The way that cooking takes place also depends on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. This is a comprehensive list of cooking techniques, and includes techniques that are unique to various countries, provinces, states, regions and cultures.

Master chef Jacques Pépin reveals techniques
and tricks that every cook should know,
from shucking an oyster to peeling a carrot

Escoffier Online's Chef Thomas discusses plating presentation. The focus of this segment is on the basics of plate presentation, how to design and plan a proper plate, and saucing techniques.

A brief demonstration of some basic knife skills, by Chef John Gonzales of A Chef's Kitchen.