I have finally rediscovered my love for cooking. Here’s what I do:
Don’t follow the recipe. The chef can’t write and the writer can’t cook. A lot of it is nonsense. If you think you know better, you do.
Do whatever you want. Don’t oversalt it or burn it and everything else can be fixed with more cookery.
Don’t cook for 2 hours unless you are having fun goofing around in the kitchen for 2 hours or are making a holiday dish everyone’s been wanting all year.
Learn all the shortcuts and try your own.
Eat while you’re cooking to see if it’s the way you want it and use all those spices and sauces to see what they do.
Easy mode: To make anything delicious, add salt, oil/fat, and acid. That will make everything but burned or oversalted stuff into edible. Also, pepper is somehow underrated despite being everywhere and in everything.
Don’t eat it in 10 minutes. You won’t digest it properly and it will add to your stress rather than relieving it. Take your time eating; the people making you rush are the problem not the food.
Addendum to 5. Taste twice, salt once. Especially if its a sauce, since flavors intensify as it simmers.
I usually taste right at the end to avoid having my tastebuds grow numb to flavors. Even then, if I have someone nearby, I’ll give em a taste and ask for notes.
Oh and an addendum to 4. Learn proper techniques and maintenance of cooking equipment. A dull knife is an unsafe knife, especially if you don’t know how to chop.
I have finally rediscovered my love for cooking. Here’s what I do:
Don’t follow the recipe. The chef can’t write and the writer can’t cook. A lot of it is nonsense. If you think you know better, you do.
Do whatever you want. Don’t oversalt it or burn it and everything else can be fixed with more cookery.
Don’t cook for 2 hours unless you are having fun goofing around in the kitchen for 2 hours or are making a holiday dish everyone’s been wanting all year.
Learn all the shortcuts and try your own.
Eat while you’re cooking to see if it’s the way you want it and use all those spices and sauces to see what they do.
Easy mode: To make anything delicious, add salt, oil/fat, and acid. That will make everything but burned or oversalted stuff into edible. Also, pepper is somehow underrated despite being everywhere and in everything.
Don’t eat it in 10 minutes. You won’t digest it properly and it will add to your stress rather than relieving it. Take your time eating; the people making you rush are the problem not the food.
Don eat burnt food
Addendum to 5. Taste twice, salt once. Especially if its a sauce, since flavors intensify as it simmers.
I usually taste right at the end to avoid having my tastebuds grow numb to flavors. Even then, if I have someone nearby, I’ll give em a taste and ask for notes.
Oh and an addendum to 4. Learn proper techniques and maintenance of cooking equipment. A dull knife is an unsafe knife, especially if you don’t know how to chop.