Did you know that fires for cooking developed around 250,000 years ago? People have been figuring out new ways to cook and prepare food for a very long time. Many people today look for cooking advice online, and there are a lot of resources there that can help the average aspiring cook. Where should you look, and what sort of cooking advice might you find?

First, online cooking help can often be found on free submit websites. The idea behind these websites is that there is no official, single chef giving out the recipes. Instead, they are collections of hundreds of original recipes submitted by other online users. What is especially handy is the feedback other users give on how the recipes worked for them, or what modifications they used in order to make it taste better or make it vegan friendly, et cetera. One cooking advice tip from these forums? Almost anything can be substituted for, even eggs. When eggs are called for, depending on the recipe type, flax seeds, chick pea flour, corn starch, bananas, or apple sauce can be used instead.

Second, online cooking help in the form of videos can be surprisingly fun and helpful. Just as many prefer tv chefs to recipe books, you might enjoy watching a clip of how to prepare a meal rather than read a website explanation. There are multiple sites that support aspiring cooks, and between them people are cooking everything from crab rangoon to vegan peanut butter cookies, so you will probably be able to find the videos you are interested in pretty easily.

The presentations are often given by charismatic individuals who will throw in jokes and reminders along with the recipe. One piece of cooking advice? Cutting back on the salt you add to dishes will not only be healthier, but it will allow you to experiment more freely with spices whose flavor would otherwise get covered up.

Third, online cooking advice can also come from cooking magazines, which have versions of their publications online. Here you can get information about how to make professional looking dishes, as well as advice from the best and most famous chefs in the business.