<aside> <img src="/icons/thinking_gray.svg" alt="/icons/thinking_gray.svg" width="40px" /> I love to cook, not because I like the way the food tastes but because I like to make it taste good.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/fan-deck_gray.svg" alt="/icons/fan-deck_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Filler — Cinematic Voice Over
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<aside> <img src="/icons/light-bulb_gray.svg" alt="/icons/light-bulb_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Pre-Production
<aside> <img src="/icons/movie-camera_gray.svg" alt="/icons/movie-camera_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Production
<aside> <img src="/icons/fan-deck_gray.svg" alt="/icons/fan-deck_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Thumbnail — Me with headphones and steak being cooked.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/drafts_gray.svg" alt="/icons/drafts_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Pre-Production
Written 12/18/22 —
🗺️ Int. My Kitchen - Day Time
🔊 No music, very quiet
🎦 Me walking in with groceries
🎦 Me taking out groceries
🎦 Showing all groceries
🎦 Show steak
🗺️ Int. My Kitchen - Day Time
💡 Put on gloves, headphones, and put on music
🎦 Establishing Shot
🔊 Good Song
🎦 Show me prepping the food
I began cooking when I was 15 years old.
First, I started with basic breakfast food, but over time I’d begin to experiment. I’d spend hours on a simple dish just for it to taste like salty cardboard.
🔊 Music goes back to louder
🎦 me prepping food
When I first started cooking, it was because I wanted to eat something fancy.
I had a juvenile understanding of seasonings at best, and had absolutely no cooking etiquette at all.
But I didn’t know that nor would I have cared. Because all I wanted steak with my ramen.
And because of that lack of etiquette and knowledge, I would openly experiment and that’s when it started to be more than just eating fancy food.
🔊 Music goes back to louder
🗺️ Int. My Kitchen - Day Time
🔊 Same song as act 1
🎦 Shows me beginning the process of cooking
You know that feeling you get after taking action on the thing you’ve been overthinking forever?
No lie, that’s how I feel whenever I embark on a new quest to create a dish I’ve never made before. Is that weird? laughs
It’s overwhelming because there are millions of different flavors to choose. Dozens of different cooking approaches. And every little detail matters from the type of pan you choose to the ration of the seasoning.
There are a million things you can do wrong, but only a few things you can do right and the margin for error is miniscule.
Sometimes you buy expensive ingredients which increases the risk and reward at hand.
And the thing I struggled with most.
🔊 Music stops
Timing. (show thyme)
🗺️ Int. My Kitchen - Day Time
🔊 Play song
🎦 Shows me taking out the steak from the sous vide, finishing cooking up side meals, and searing the steak.
Even though cooking can be stressful in of itself, it’s in that stress where I find my reason for living.
While you’re boiling over an oven you might find yourself questioning the point of all of this work. You might even have lost your entire appetite by this point.
But even then, you won’t back out. You’ve already went so far and no amount of your second guessing will lead you to quitting.
This is when motivation betrays you. But. This is also when dedication rewards you.
🗺️ Int. My Kitchen - Day Time
🔊 Song plays with good build-up
🎦 Shows me plating sides, taking off steak from skillet, and plating steak to make a picture perfect dinner plate. I don’t want to show the whole plate until I plate the steak. I want to tease the viewer.
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