What are the best practices you’ve learned to save time or make a meal better.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago
    1. Nothing goes on a plate without being tasted
    2. If it’s too sour, add sugar
    3. if it’s sweet and you haven’t added acid, add a splash of vinegar.
    4. if it’s too hot, add fat
    5. if you burn it, throw it out.
    6. IF you taste it early, it should taste weak. If it’s fantastic when when it starts to simmer, it’ll be too harsh once it’s reduced.
    7. Taste it and it tastes empty or boring? Smell it. Smell all your herbs/spices on hand, which ever one it smells the closest to, add a healthy pinch and salt if it doesn’t taste salty already.
    8. know your oils and use the right ones. Olive oil can handle some heat and is great for savory, grapeseed is almost flavorless. Canola has a distinct flavor that doesn’t go with everything. 9 season your meat before you cook it.
    • Motorhead1066@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Only thing I’d add is that, on 8, learn what rancid oil smells like. Most people keep things like olive oil in poor conditions (that’s without us even getting into quality of oil, or how people buy FAR MORE oil than they’ll reasonably be able to use), and the oil goes bad far faster than they think it will.