YouTube: The New How-To!

I have to admit up front that I'm not a good cook. At all! Usually when I try to make something (anything really, including those stir fry meals you can get in the freezer section of the grocery store) I end up screwing it up. I can't cook well. Just the other morning I tried to make some cinnamon rolls for a late Sunday breakfast. All I had to do was turn the stove on, place the rolls (the kind that come in a can of course) on a baking sheet and cook them for 10-12 minutes. Well, I ended up with cinnamon rolls that were gooey on top and black on bottom. Obviously cooking is not my forte.

But the other night I was starving and all I had in my refrigerator was cheese and eggs (I am a poor college student after all!) so I started thinking about what I could make with the ingredients I had on hand. I finally decided that I wanted an omelet. Well, you can probably guess from my previous descriptions of my cooking skills, that I had never cooked an omelet before. I knew what I wanted to go in my omelet, I just wasn't completely sure about how to get started. Then I thought of YouTube. Hey, it was worth a shot. Surely somebody had put a video on YouTube about how to make an omelet. Guess what? Somebody had! I found a great video that gave a quick demonstration about cooking omelets. I'm a visual learner, so I needed those visual aids to help me. If you're interested, check it out below!

Previously, I had only thought of YouTube as a place to find funny videos that other people had posted, but now I realize YouTube can now take the place of all those How-To books that used to be so popular. You can learn anything from how to make a paper airplane to how to make out. So the next time you have a question about how to do something, before grabbing a book, check out YouTube. You might be surprised at what you find!