How do professional chefs make it look so easy? They take a piece of meat and slice through it like butter. They cut an onion into beautiful, slender slices. What do they have that you haven't got? Sure, they have professional training and years of experience. But if they aren't using a good knife, they'd …
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Don't try to sharpen your knives by yourself. You'll ruin them! Send them out to be sharpened by a professional. Box them up and send them out! Oh, really?
If cutting up a chicken is hard, clumsy work, or you find yourself cursing your carrots when you attempt to matchstick them, I have the most likely reason: your knives probably suck. Slicing and dicing should be fun. When you have good knives and you keep them sharp, they are a joy to use. There’s …
Best cutting boards for home cooking February 9, 2014 / / / Print / Details Leave a Comment Related Items If you’ve been following my advice about how to learn to cook, by now you’ve bought yourself a few really good knives. Great! Now that you’ve treated yourself to good knives, treat your knives to …
If your food sticks and burns, then your pots and pans are probably too thin. If your food boils over or spills when you move the pot around, then you probably need some bigger pots and pans. If cooking usually feels like an abominable chore instead of a delicious celebration, I’d guess there’s an excellent …
How do you feel about your kitchenware? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you love it? If you’re not in love with your cookware, throw it out! If you hate your cookware, that’s good. At least you have feelings about it. Figure out what you hate about it, and use that as …
Why cook? Why learn how to cook? Great questions. Think about this: if you don’t cook for yourself, that means someone else is cooking for you. And chances are, it’s not a personal chef. Chances are, in fact, it’s not anybody who knows your name. Or would care if they did. Who is cooking for you? For …
The journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single bite. Many of us think we need to change the way we eat: that we should eat less processed food, less junk food, less food on the run, and maybe just plain less food. But increasingly, it seems the entire food system could use some serious …
A memorable quote from the Feb. 7, 2011 episode of Angelo Coppola’s Latest in Paleo podcast: We live in a world where the average person is getting his food from restaurants and packages. Well said, Angelo! Latest in Paleo is a blog and podcast that positions itself “at the intersection of scientific evidence and evolutionary clues left to us …
One of the toughest things about using the Internet to learn about food, cooking and nutrtion — for me anyway — is just being able to stop. Or looking up only the thing I’m seeking, and resisting the temptation of a million tantalizing avenues of exploration as they pop up. “If I don’t look now, …
