Professional Chefs Point Out Our Kitchen Mistakes

Harty 4 year s ago

I pick mushrooms (we have meadows with cows and horses here in Belgium and therefore also 'champignons de paris'). I dry them in a special oven in the basement (it can also be done in the normal oven in the kitchen but then your house smells like mushroom for 3 days). Dry them at 55°C for ten hours and put them in the freezer. If you want to use them put them for 2 hours in water. A whole year free mushrooms with a better taste than the bought ones.

Connie 4 year s ago

I hope the top ramen inclusion was a gag. Literally don't need that kind of advice. I'm going to keep pressing my burgers too. It makes them leaner. In fact, I'm just going to keep cooking how I damn well please.

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Cleat 4 year s ago

Connie,

I'm happy you got that passive/aggressive thought off your mind.. Cook on, big fella.

Chrissy 4 year s ago

#2 I've learned to clean as I go. Good advice.
#6 Grocery store chills some vegetables but not others, I do what they do.
#9 Mix sauces similar to mixing paint; alternate top to bottom and outside edge inward.
#12 An accurate meat thermometer is a crucial tool. Learned my lesson after I overcooked a good piece of meat.

Underseason your food, taste it, then reseason to what you think tastes good. THEN RETASTE IT AGAIN. There's a reason there aren't salt and pepper shakers on higher end restaurants. The plate put on your table is what it SHOULD taste like.

You probably aren’t mixing certain things as much as you should be, like creaming butter and sugar isn’t just combining them, you need to beat them until they’re fluffy. The same goes for adding eggs...you’ll get better cookies and brownies if you beat again until fluffy when adding eggs to your creamed butter and sugar. However, you don’t want to over-mix once you add the flour, just mix until no more dry flour is visible. Over-mixing the flour can make your end product tough.