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America's Test Kitchen does some really great stuff for both beginner and experienced cooks, namely presenting one method/recipe after testing a number of alternatives, and including the reasons why they prefer the method/recipe they settled on. "Many people also do it this way, and here's how that turns out and why I prefer the method shown." Or "Here's what happens if you add more butter, and this is what it looks like if you add more eggs/use an egg substitute etc." They get into the chemistry/science of why the chosen method is best or why an easier method can work as well as a more traditional one, and you feel like you learn both the how of cooking something and the why behind a specific recipe, which makes it a lot easier to understand and follow. A final benefit is that it can make a lot of recipes more approachable for a home cool with things like "in professional kitchens, they will use XYZ in order to ZYX. If you don't have access to XYZ, YYY ingredient has a similar effect and is more common in home kitchens..."
Exactly, it's definitely a shortcoming of a lot of recipes and cooking shows. Like just in case I do have agar agar, I'd love to hear how to use it in the given recipe, but many more people probably want to hear that ~and then~ their other more common options, as well as how those compare to the more professional technique/ingredients. They do the same thing with materials, too. Like "traditionally this is made in a round bottom wok, but we get great results with this type of pan that you're more likely to have/know how to use." Sending huge luck for ya, and looking forward to checking out your videos when you start!