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Friday, May 25, 2012

Want To Learn How To Cook? Read These Tips

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By Tyra Georgia Sanchez


Cooking is a skill you can always improve upon. Cooking is a talent that is developed over a lifetime. If you want fast improvements to cooking skills, this is a great article that will help! The tips in this article are sure to have you cooking better than ever.



When sauteing food, avoid over-filling the pan. This can result in additional moisture that may cause the food to become steamed and lose its crisp brown surface, one of the primary features of sauteing. Always saute over a low flame or low setting on your stove-top.

Make sure that you take care with the cooking time for a perfectly baked cake. If you are just beginning baking, you may have a hard time understanding how to adjust recommended oven temperatures to take variables such as elevation and humidity into account. This can cause your cake to bake strangely. The best test for a cake being fully cooked is to insert a toothpick into the center of the cake. The cake is finished if the toothpick comes out completely clean. If it does not, and has some batter on it, it needs to be cooked longer.

To save time, prepare your future meals in advance. With certain meals, it is possible to make ingredients the day before you are going to cook. Some ingredients even benefit from advance preparation, developing a better flavor that will enhance the quality of your meal when you cook it. This works so well that many people find it difficult to stop.

If you are looking to lose weight and keep a healthy diet, it is very important you use less oil when cooking. These oils are often loaded with unhealthy fats. Replace them with a nonstick cooking spray and you won't notice the difference.

If you find that making a whole dinner at once is too much work, do parts of your food preparation the night before. Cut up vegetables and make marinades or sauces before going to bed at night. You will feel much relief the next day, and cooking will be more of a pleasure.

Head to the store and replace your unused spices every six months. When spices are stored for too long, their flavor degrades, resulting in a less potent spice. If you do not think you will use all of the spice within six months, split it with a friend.

The night before you cook, try to prepare as much as possible. This keeps you safe, and saves you money. Working with hot pans and stoves while you are distracted with prep tasks is a recipe for injury, and you tend to leave burners and ovens on longer if you are still preparing ingredients.

A cool and dark location is best for storing spices and herbs. Exposure to humidity, light and heat all affect the flavor of your spices. Generally, ground spices and herbs keep most of their flavor for a year. Whole spices can keep their flavor for up to five years. If stored the right way, they keep fresh for a lot longer.

Learning new ways to cook can be exciting! You can have nearly as much fun in the kitchen as at the dinner table! Even if you haven't picked up some handy suggestions you intend to use the next time you prepare a meal, hopefully this article has shown you the value of looking for new cooking tips! To be a good cook, you must constantly learn new things.




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