Food Cooking tips

Post the tips you have learned to make the food you cook better.

Here is a few I can think of off hand.

When cooking rice that isn't instant (and you have no rice maker) use more parts water then rice.

Add a little salt when you saute onions and veggies. It makes them sweat and makes them taste better.

I'll have more later. What are yours?

 

My number one cooking rule:

Don't use plastic in the microwave. You'll regret it...

OOh, I forgot my other golden rule. If you plan to withdraw something from the toaster oven (or the oven), use potholders... and it might be a good idea to turn the device off while your at it.

 

use the right flour when making bread

i didn't, and you could have used it to hammer nails through concrete... :sad:

 

I have to say you always need to do alterations to the recipe, and always try again, and again and read recipes thouroughly

 

Don't mix up baking soda with baking powder.

Don't mix tsp with tbsp.

I don't think I've ever mixed up baking soda with baking powder but I've heard that it can cause explosions. But, the tbsp thing happened to me once when I was making these surprise muffins for my politics assignment on terrorism. They were originally supposed to be muffins with gummy worms in the middle but they ended up tasting really sour because I added in x tbsp of baking powder rather than x tsp.. they really were a terror.

 

make sure you get the right ingredients, once got limeade instead of lemonade for a frosting, DEESGUSTING! it tasted SO sour!