Knife Drop: Creative Recipes Anyone Can Cook Hardcover – June 13, 2023

My son and I watched Nick on Masterchef and YouTube and he was excited to get his book and start cooking. Nick has been inspirational to watch and we are looking forward to trying out some of the recipes which look amazing!

I purchased this book for a beginner Chef. He loved it is excited to begin learning and cooking from the book

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This cookbook is amazing. Great instructions, beautiful pictures, excellent recipes. Can't put it down. Definitely recommend

Really good recipes to learn from

My son likes watching Nick's YouTube videos and successfully made a couple things he saw on them, so I got him this book hoping it would inspire him to keep going. The book is nice quality and a good standard size. The food photography is lovely. The recipes are generally a bit mundane, some of them more about process than an actual recipe, but given the title of the book that's not entirely unexpected. The recipes we have tried so far have been simple and turned out well. We've made the chicken salad a few times despite it being one of the easiest recipes. I don't know that it will be a staple in our kitchen for longer than my son's attention span (ha), and I probably wouldn't have picked it up at a bookstore if I wasn't familiar with the youtube channel, but I don't regret buying it.

The author is apparently some kind of social media star, delivering cooking videos to legions of fans. I admit, I didn’t know his work prior to reading this book. But when I stumbled across the book itself, I found it rather intriguing. The theme here seems to be interesting, creative, restaurant-quality types of dishes, but which can be (relatively) easily prepared by home cooks in a home kitchen.Admittedly, some of the recipes live up to that promise a bit better than others. To be sure, there are several recipes in here that look just as impressive as anything you might find in a Michelin-starred restaurant, but with relatively simple ingredients and techniques accessible to home chefs. But there are also a couple that don’t quite hit that “impressive” mark or which might be a bit more intimidating to the home cook.But that’s not to say those recipes are necessarily bad or failures by any means. And despite a couple maybe not quite hitting the same theme as the rest of the book, I consider the book on the whole quite a success.One thing I particularly like, and I don’t know whether to credit the author or the publisher for this, is that every single recipe in the book is accompanied by an attractive full-page illustration so you can see exactly what each dish is supposed to look like. Admittedly, that means there’s not room for quite as many recipes in here, but I find it makes for a more attractive, and indeed more useful, cookbook.As for the recipes themselves, I’m quite pleased to report that the vast majority of them look like something I’d actually like to cook and/or eat. Obviously everyone’s tastes are different so no cookbook ever manages to be 100% for anyone (except perhaps its own author), but this one is closer aligned to my tastes than most. And I particularly like a book that combines some sophisticated classy recipes with some that are more comfort food. And I have to admit, what really caught my eye is that this book even includes a recipe to make your own home-made dino nuggies. I’m pretty sure that means this is an author who knows what his audience wants.On that note of speaking to his audience, this might also be the perfect cookbook for the social media age because not only is the author apparently a social media cooking star of some sort, but he’s also included QR codes throughout the book leading the reader to videos demonstrating how to prepare some (not all) of the recipes.Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect from this book, but now that I’ve read it, I can see why Gordon Ramsay was willing to put his name on it and supply a foreword. This is really an excellent cookbook.

LOVE IT! Great recipe book, my son originally wanted it to start learning how to cook with it. After receiving it I went through the recipes to see what it had and saw so many favorite dishes that I loved. I was more excited about the book more than he was lol. Great collection to add to our arsenal :o)