Tips to Improve Cooking

Crash Course Culinary School: Tips to Make You a Better Cook

January 17, 2013

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Set Yourself Up For Success (Literally)

Mise en place literally means "setting in place" and translates to measuring out and prepping your ingredients as dictated by the ingredient list before you begin to cook. Not only will this eliminate panicked midrecipe realizations that you are short an egg or two, but it will also streamline the cooking process and reduce the need to multitask and potentially burn food.

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by Nicole Perry 3

Set Yourself Up For Success (Literally)

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3 Comments

Nicole Perry 18 weeks 1 day

jo_jo_ba, that's great! I'm an ardent, fairly prolific baker, and yet only find myself turning to my measuring cups maybe once a month since buying a scale a few years back. It really is life changing.

Anna Monette Roberts 18 weeks 1 day

This tips are so helpful! What an interesting slideshow!

jo_jo_ba 18 weeks 2 days

I always weigh ingredients when baking now! This is a good recipe to figure out volume / weight conversions too - http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking/