How to Cook Everything: The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food – With 1,000 Photos: A Beginner Cookbook and Essential Guide to Fundamental Cooking Techniques

To assist you in your quest for great cooking: 2 Good Cookbooks for you to learn from: Taste of Home Cooking School: Cooking School Cookbook There is also How to Cook Everything: The Basics from Marc Bittman. I have the second one in my kitchen and still reference it every so often. especially if trying a new ingredient or dish. The second has a whole chapter about the different stages of boiling water. evidently there is more to it than you realized.