Make an Instructables Restaurant

Step 3 How to select GREAT FOOD

This is where the power of the internet should be combined with the power of your cooking skills (or those of others). It's also one of the most fun parts of the whole projects since it involves picking recipes, cooking and tasting, and cooking and tasting some more.

1. If you are not a great cook yourself, try to involve someone who is and reads recipes like a musician reads music. In other words, someone who knows by reading the recipes on instructables.com if it will be any good. This saves you the trouble of a lot of cooking and tasting bad food.

2. It's probably a good idea to pick up a menu of a local restaurant you like and have a look at the diversity in meals on offer. You can copy the traditional standards with entries, main, desserts etc. or since this is already a wacky idea in the first place DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, and serve only dishes with the word atomic in them, or ice cream, or things from Ohio. The pizza in the sky is the limit.

3. Decide on a budget per dish served. This will also narrow down the choice. You may need to shop around for good deals on ingredients. You could do a special.

4. Have someone who knows how to cook prepare the dish. If it needs slight alterations that is fine BUT don't forget to put this as feedback on Instructables so everybody can benefit from it! This is one of the most promising aspects of this concept: we might actually make things better one step at a time.

5. When you're done cooking have your neighbours try it, then your friends, and if you're feeling confident, your mother-in-law. (We suggest to do it in that order unless you want to get in trouble).

6. If most people like it, or at least think it's fun, CONGRATULATIONS! You found yourself a dish worth serving. Time for a more serious dinnerparty!