Plan any subject, week by week

Pick a subject and say how many hours a week you actually have. You get the real order the skills have to be learned in, the graded work each stretch ends in, and an honest total in weeks. It is arithmetic over a published skill map, not a plan a model wrote on the way to you.

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01 · The estimate

7 weeks at 4 hours a week

26.3Hours of work

7Weeks

14Things to do

2Marked

That is the core path. Home Cooking also declares 2.5 hours of specialist skills that are not counted above — take those too and it is 8 weeks. Both numbers assume you hit 4 hours every week, which nobody does; the plan does not expire if you don’t.

02 · The plan

Week by week, in the order it has to be learned

Each line is one thing to be able to do. The order is the skill map’s own: nothing appears before what it needs.

Week 14.5h starts here
- Not poisoning anyoneName the specific risk in a handling scenario and the temperature or practice that removes it1.5h
- Knife controlProduce a pile of evenly sized pieces, consistent enough that they finish cooking together3h · runs into week 2
Week 24.5h starts here
- Getting set upSequence a dish so nothing waits on a knife while something else is in a hot pan1.5h
- Heat controlChoose a heat level for a stated outcome and show the result matches it3h · runs into week 3
Week 34h starts here
- BrowningProduce an even brown crust and explain what you did to the surface and the pan to get it2h
- Judging donenessState how you judged a thing was cooked, and show the cross-section that confirms it2h · runs into week 4
Week 43h starts here
- Resting and carry-overPull something off the heat before its target and land on the target after resting1.5h
- Reading a recipe criticallyMark up a recipe separating what must be followed from what can be varied, with reasons1.5h
Week 54h starts here
- Building a pan sauceTurn the residue in a pan into a sauce that coats the back of a spoon2h
- Substituting without breaking itReplace an ingredient you do not have and say what function you were replacing2h
Week 64h starts here
- SaltingName every point you seasoned at and why, rather than salting once at the end2h
- Acid and balanceDiagnose a flat dish by naming which of the four levers is missing, and say what you added2h
Week 72.3h starts here
- Four cuts, one vegetableMarkedRead the checklist it is marked against1h
- Cook something to a target and prove you hit itMarkedRead the checklist it is marked against1.3h

This is the same plan we would give anyoneThere is no box here for how good you already are, because saying so has never made it true. This is what Home Cooking takes, and the only thing that takes work out of it is work of yours that has been marked. What the ten-minute check gives you is the other half: where you stand in it before you start.

Check where you stand in Home CookingAbout ten minutes. No account.

The plan above is Home Cooking in full, and the marked work in it is published with its checklist before you start. Want a subject nobody has written? Ask for it — that one does need an account, and a few minutes.