In this video, professional chefs instruct you on various essentials to baking cakes, cookies, and pies including measuring and mixing ingredients. They will also teach you about broiling, roasting, and using the microwave.

The Essentials of Cooking program is the first in the Interactive Cooking School library of programs. Essentials of Cooking establishes a foundation for the library by teaching the basics of home cooking. Chef instructors from the prestigious Culinard culinary institute of Virginia College show you step-by-step simple skills and techniques like whipping egg whites, mincing onion or cutting a chicken for frying or the grill that can be used to create any recipe.

The Interactive Cooking School is a new concept in home cooking education. Until now, outside of cooking classes, most home cooking instruction has been recipe based. That is teaching skills need to prepare a recipe either in a book or on a television program, making it difficult to apply techniques to other recipes.

The DVD purchase of this download contains all of the Interactive Cooking School downloads.