Easy Cookery

 How To Make Kitchen Cooking Easier.  

 Trouble Free Cooking? 

Believe it or not, trouble free cooking is a common desire around the world. Even those among us who love cooking and eating almost equally will be the first to confess that being able to cook without the worry of creating a mess, spilling, or burning would be a blessing. Truthfully speaking there really is no such thing as trouble free cooking though there are things you can do that will take a good deal of trouble out of your cooking.

Most of the tips here will be beneficial to novice or beginners in the culinary arts however, there are some great refresher tips for those who are more experienced when it comes to cooking as well. Hopefully you will learn some things through the next few paragraphs or at least remember some things you had forgotten.

First of all, cleaning as you go will take a lot of the trouble out of what comes after the cooking. When asked the least favorite thing about cooking, a wide margin of people proclaim without a second of hesitation that the clean up is by far the worst thing about cooking. To make things easier, clean as you go. Keep a sink of hot sudsy water ready to go the entire time you are cooking and wipe up any spills that occur immediately to avoid sticky messes that are much more difficult to clean afterwards. You should also note that if you transfer your food to serving dishes and immediately wash your pots and pans they will be much easier to clean than if the food is allowed to sit in them while your family dines.

Burning dinners? The reason? Is the setting correct?  If it's high or low when it comes to cooking and there is nothing in between, that may be the reason. Not all appliances are the same when it comes to temperature. Very few meals should be cooked on high truth be told. You are much better off to begin the food preparation at a medium or medium high temperature and to adjust accordingly. Watch how your pot heats up and adjust as needed.

Make sure your oven is preheated. The temperature of the oven does indeed make a difference in the cooking process. While there are those that believe preheating is a simple waste of electricity it is what is required in order to achieve the optimal results when cooking. Most modern electric ovens will signal when the proper temperature has been achieved.

Select recipes that fall within your comfort zone in order to avoid making mistakes or becoming too stressed about the cooking process. Once you’ve decided on your recipe read it through a couple of times in order to be certain that you not only understand all the steps involved but also have all the necessary ingredients before beginning.

Once you are sure you are ready to prepare the meal, as you are working through the process, consider your clean up tasks afterwards. You'll need dish soap, towel, trash bag, etc.. You want to stay as organized as possible and spend as little time as possible gathering the items needed to finish with your kitchen. We often spend a lot of time analyzing the meal but the job doesn't end there. The smoother clean up goes, the more enjoyable the meal.

Wash your hands thoroughly and wash your hands often. Remember the sink of sudsy water I mentioned above? You’ll want to use it quite frequently in order to wash any surface, cutting board, plate, or utensil that has come into contact with raw meat in order to avoid cross contamination. The same holds true for your hands.

While to some degree these tips may seem a bit simplistic, when it comes to trouble free cooking there really is no such thing. The more you do to make the cooking process seem as effortless as possible the more trouble free your cooking will really be.

Here's Your Checklist:

Recipe

Ingredients

Plenty of time to cook.

Oven turn on, pots ready.

Clean up supplies

List and pencil to make notes of things you think of while you're in the kitchen (things to add to your next shopping list, modifications to your recipes, other recipes you might have thought of that you would like to add to next months meal plan, any tasks or calls to take care of later?, etc) Use a meal planning and preparation journal. Always keep your receipts. Know your food shelf inventory.

Let's recap... Cookery Made Easier

Plan your meals ahead of time.

Cook simple meals that are healthy.

Spend less time in the kitchen.

Now get busy doing other things. Choose things to do where you will not be distracted by food or get tempted. Go to the library, surf the internet, try some yoga, or learn a new language. The fastest way to lose weight and keep it off is to get away from food. Eating right and planning meals will get you the nutrition you need to feel satisfied while cutting down the time spent craving more food. Eat right and exercise and you will find that weight loss is much easier than you think.

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