When you taste a good meal in a fine restaurant, you will marvel at how they may have been prepared. Many would-be cooks would attempt to recreate such recipes simply by looking and taking note of its ingredients. The success rate of such a method is patchy at best. To achieve the quality of taste that has become a trademark of some commercial food favourites, one must start at following simple, practical tips and reminders as found below.
Very often after big events, you would find yourself with a huge volume of leftover sauce. You may throw away those who have been slightly used already, but those who haven't been served yet, you may actually be able to save them. Since most probably their taste is still intact, you simply pour them to ice cube racks and freeze them. Freeze as much as there is. This method of preserving sauces likewise makes it more convenient for you to economically be able to use them. You simply retrieve as many sauce cubes as you may require for a meal and heat them on pan and there you go.
In preparing barbecues, you would be able to achieve better grilling result if you preheat the grill beforehand. This will prevent the grill from sticking with your barbecue meat. Just preheat it for about half an hour using the charcoal you will use to maintain the heat later. Be sure though to maintain the heating at mid-range to prevent the charcoal from burning out. Charcoals can turn into ashes real quick if not maintained properly.
The best timing for you to add spices and seasonings like salt and garlic to a recipe of dried beans is when they are already slightly softened. This is because both salt and garlic can potentially harden your beans instead of softening it if you are not careful with how you time your cooking. This is especially true with older beans whose attribute already requires extra patience to prepare.
Your cutting board is a very important part of your cooking system once you get your cooking act going in the kitchen. Almost all ingredients will get pass it. It is then critical that you keep it sanitarily cleaned. Remember also that heat and moisture can make its composition deteriorate so it is important to keep it dry when not in use. Some cooks recommend putting salt into it during cooking session. Such practice would effectively flavour your ingredients even before you are still about to cook it, with the flavouring going right into the core of the ingredients.
There are two P's you must keep in mind in cooking: Preparation and Presentation. One is done at the very beginning while the other at the end. Yet it is how you these two that will set you apart from the rest. Preparation means how you prepare for each cooking engagement. How you setup your workplace, your utensils, your ingredients - how you functionally prepare everything so that each piece contributes towards a great result in the end.
Presentation on the other hand is how you set up your final product so that it will be pleasing to the one that tastes it. Pleasing means pleasing all the senses, including the sense of sight. Good cooks would know how to present their each recipe so that it would convey consistently the same sensuality at the tip of the tongue as well as in sight.
By setting yourself to follow the tips laid down by this article, you are also gearing yourself towards a journey of culinary excellence. It is now up to you how you grow in this journey. What is important is you have taken on critical step forward.
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