Top 5 online cooking classes for basic cooking skills 

Almost anything you cook yourself is going to be healthier than buying takeaway or ready-made meals but learning how to cook in 2021 poses new problems. Online cooking classes are filling the gap but which ones are the best for beginners, asks Caroline Hennessy 

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Calorie counted food deliveries. Healthy takeaway concepts. Strictly portioned meal kits. Is this healthy eating, 2021-style - or is it merely outsourcing the issue of cooking for yourself?

If there’s one thing that we’ve learned during the last year of rolling lockdowns, it’s that being able to cook simple, healthy meals - for yourself, your housemates, your family - is a superpower. But this is not a superpower that you’re born with; it’s one that is honed with practice and repetition. Without universal cooking-based home economics classes for all school goers, many of us only learn how to cook when we’re older.