Welcome back to our Arrive Perimeter Blog. We searched online to find some of the best cooking tips. Learn what Redditors have to share!
Reddit is a website where people can post content such as links, text posts, and images, which people can comment and vote on. The more popular the comments in the post, the more points they receive. Here are just a few of the many best cooking tips we found. Apply them the next time you cook in your Atlanta, GA apartment.
- Learn how to hold a chef's knife properly.
- Don’t crowd the frying pan. If you put a significantly small amount of meat in the pan, the meat comes out more tasty and caramelized. This takes a lot longer to cook all your meat than simply loading up the pan, but it makes a big difference.
- When cutting onions, chew gum. The increased saliva production forces you to breathe through your mouth and the moisture in the mouth absorbs the chemicals that irritate your eyes.
- Think of garlic as a vegetable, not a spice.
- Learn how long your different dishes take to cook so they're all finished at the same time (boiled potatoes take about 20 minutes to cook, carrots and turnips take longer, steamed asparagus takes about 4 minutes after the water boils, and a thin steak is well done in 12 minutes). Knowing when to start cooking each food can make the difference between eating a delicious stir fry with firm vegetables or a slimy plate of mush.
- Salt the steaks before they hit the pan by an hour or more. You'll get yummy crust steaks every time.
- Calibrate your oven temperature. Just because it says 350 degrees doesn’t mean it’s 350 degrees.
- A small amount of sugar helps balance out the flavors if you’ve accidentally added too much of something. Too much salt? No problem.
Thanks for reading this month’s blog post. We hope you have a great month in Atlanta!
