final essay...revised

Aruya Davis

Dr. Sonia Apgar Begert

English 101

“Learning to cook from YouTube is a great education!”

“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” according to Sir Robison on “How school kill creativity; Tedtalk.”  There is a concern about creativity learning nowadays.  How can we find the creative education? It is simple.  The creativity of education can come from informal education experience—outside classroom.  Creative education may just come from a simple thing as cooking.  Learning to cook from YouTube will lead you to on creative education experience and you also may find your passion and enjoyment.

First, learning to cook from YouTube is a great education because it is easy to do.  Many people are so scared to learn how to cook.  They think cooking is a hard process.  Sometime just looking through the cooking book is not enough information for the beginner who is just learning how to cook.  Learning to cook from YouTube will make you realize how easy cooking is.  Many people are visual learners so it would be very easy to follow step by step of cooking with YouTube video.  YouTube video gives and shows what the process is and what you would expect during the cooking process.  For example, you are cooking a Molten Lava Chocolate cake.  You follow the step to mix all the ingredients.  Then you would be able to pause the video to wait for bake the cake.  When your cake is cooked and ready, you can keep playing video to look at the final step.  YouTube gives your ability to pause and follow the steps as slow as your real time cooking.  You can go back to watch again, and again whenever you want, too.  This YouTube easy to follow will give you more pleasure and enjoyment to learn something new.  According to Huston on “How I Learned to Love Traveling Solo. ", "Managing and reducing the things that you find stressful, and embracing whatever it is that you love doing by yourself are the keys to enjoying it and getting the most out of it."  This YouTube ability is make learning to cook from YouTube is become a wonderful learning experience.

Second, learning to cook from YouTube is a great education because it has a variety sources.  When you buy a cooking book, you just have the information of cooking in that book only.  How about when you would like to cook something that you do not have in your cooking book?  YouTube has a numerous variety cooking videos that you could possibly think of it.  YouTube has video from learn how to cut vegetable all the way to how to make a fancy dinner meal just your favorite restaurant.  You might find those sources from books also, but it will take you a long time to gather all the sources you would like to have it.  Instead, you just search in YouTube and find whatever you are looking for in a second.  For example, you want to know how to clean and prepare the octopus.  Then you need to know Thai spicy sauce for eat with steamed octopus.  You can be creative on your cooking by mix and match whatever your favorite food by learning from YouTube.  You can make Japanese style meal with Thai spicy sauce, French dessert, and Indian Lassi.  If you try to find as a book, you may have to buy different book for each specific cooking method.  YouTube has many choices of videos of each cooking method that you can choose for.  The variety sources on YouTube will make your cooking learning experience goes far more beyond what you would expect.

Third, learning to cook from YouTube is a great education because it is convenience as economically and logically.  Who does not like the free stuff?  Learning to cook can be expensive if you go to cooking class or buy the book.  YouTube is free as long as you have internet at your house or you can use computer at library and print out only what you are looking for. For example, you would like to learn how to cook Thai food.  It would cost you about 100 dollars for Thai cooking class or about 20 dollars for Thai cooking book. You still have to travel to the class or book store which will cost you time and money as well.  However, you can access to YouTube to learn how to cook whenever and even wherever you want as long as you have internet access.  You do not need to carry your cook book to your friend’s house when you would like to cook a lovely dinner for everyone; you just save the videos of menus that you would like to cook in your playlist and open it at your friend’s house.  Nothing can be better than a freedom of learning; you do not need to worry the fee of cooking class nor do you not need to worry about time to commute to learning.  Leaning to cook from YouTube gives you a freedom of learning as economically and logically.

There are few concerns about learning to cook from YouTube for those who have a little bit knowledge with computer.  Nowadays computers have become a basic need of our lives. Many people could not live without it.  However, there are still some people who are now familiar with it and scared to use it.  YouTube is the great and easy sources to use it.  If you know how to turn on computer, you would be able to use and learn from YouTube.  For example, you can open from the YouTube website.  There is the search blog and you can type the menu you would like to learn to cook.  Once you find it, you can click to which video that you like.  There is the play and pause button.  Then here is your great education experience begins.

Other concern about learning to cook from YouTube is how accurate would it be.  Since there are many people posting cooking videos on YouTube, you may wonder which one is the right one you are looking for.  For example, you want to know how to cook Thai Panang Curry and so many videos on YouTube about how to cook Thai Panang.  First tip is to find the most viewers on video; there is some reason why that many people like to watch that cooking video.  If the cooking video is good source, many people would use and view more often than the other.  Furthermore, you may check on the comment at the bottom of video to see other people comment.  You may find few more tips from other people who have been cook that menu before.  You are also learning from other person’s experience as well.  

Learning to cook from YouTube is a great creative education because it is very easy to use, has a variety sources to choose from, and convenience for economically and logically.  Learning to cook from YouTube will bring you to a new experience in your life that more than a formal education world.  When you keep practicing to cook, you will be surprised how easy cooking is.  According to Aboukhadiejeh on “How I Learned to Program Computers.”, “The best way to learn a new skill is to practice, practice, practice. All the best programmers that I know sincerely enjoy programming — it’s something that makes them absurdly happy to do. And, so they do it a lot.”  After you have been practiced to cook many times, you may realize you can become a chef even though you learned from YouTube.  Learning to cook from YouTube is a great way to give you a new skill.  Life is long time learning and YouTube is the best source we have nowadays.  What are you waiting for?