Browsing by Subject "ruokablogit"

Aims. The aim of this study was to find out whether food blogs can help to develop one’s cooking skills. The study assignment was to find out why food blogs are read, how food blogs are found developing cooking skills and how one could develop more cooking skills with the help of food blogs. Learning a skill is constant, happens often by modelling others and contains a lot of silent knowledge (Hakkainen & Paavola, 2008). The aim was to find out whether food blogs work by developing skills. Blogs’ community nature was thought to support to develop cooking skills. Methods. This study was qualitative and was done by using an internet survey and it was shared via social media and which it was open for a month. There were 12 participants aged 20-40 years old. The material was analyzed by content analysis. Results and discussion. The results showed that the food blogs do contain many sectors that help develop reader’s cooking skills. “Step by step pictures”, specific recipes, and critical points being pointed out were important in reader’s opinion when developing their cooking skills. These were also the elements that were missing in some of the food blogs. Adding videos to recipes would support develop cooking skills in the future. Better reviewing chances in food blogs would help the reader read food blogs that contain good recipes and by it develop their cooking skills even more.