01/6Cooking tips that will ease your cooking skills

Cooking tips that will ease your cooking skills

Since all of us are home-bound due to the lockdown, a little experimenting session in the kitchen won't hurt. Since now you have all the time to invest in new skills, you can really learn a thing or two to better yourself at it. To say the least, we've got you some cooking tips that are basically taught in culinary schools for bettering your skills at cooking. You can practice these at home too in order to keep yourself away from kitchen accidents and also to experience cooking in an easier way. Everyone can try out a new recipe, but cooking it like a pro is what we are looking at here. It's always fun to learn something new, isn't it?

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02/6Burnt outside and raw inside

Burnt outside and raw inside

If you notice that the food is just being cooked on the outside and the inside is still raw, cook inside an aluminium foil. This way, the cooking process will begin from the inside and avoid the burnt outside.

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03/6Sharpening the knives

Sharpening the knives

You will always need your knives to be sharp, or else slicing and chopping food items will become difficult. You only need to sharpen the blade of the knives a few times a year. You don't really want to sharpen the knife too often as the sharpening takes off metal and wears out the knife.

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04/6Transferring food from cutting boards

Transferring food from cutting boards

Most of the people usually use a knife itself to transfer the food from the cutting board into the container. But dragging the knife dulls the blade over the period of time. A dough scraper will actually work well. Also, the scraper is bigger so it can very much push all the food from the cutter at once.

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05/6Judging how hot the pan is

Judging how hot the pan is

Getting a stainless steel pan to the right temperature on a gas stove before you add some oil is a task. But there is actually an easy way out to tell how hot the pan it. Sprinkle a few drops of water. When they form a single ball of water that rolls round the pan, it means it's time to add the oil.

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06/6Adding baking soda to tomato sauce

Adding baking soda to tomato sauce

If you're someone who wishes to make tomato sauce at home, you'd want to know that you can actually avoid adding sugar and add some baking soda instead. You actually don't need much. Just a quarter of a teaspoon is enough. Once you add the baking soda to the sauce, keep it on the pot for a few more minutes.

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