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I am looking for a gears-level introductory course (or a textbook, or anything) in cooking. I want to cook tasty healthy food in an efficient way. I am already often able to cook tasty food, but other times I fail, and often I don't understand what went wrong and how cooking even works.
Tim Ferriss book The 4-hour Chef does a good job at explaining the how and why and is efficiency oriented.
Recently, I however moved to the "throw things in the instant pot and let it do the cooking method of solving cooking and find it to be often more efficient then the normal way of cooking.