Cooking basics
The handful of skills that let you feed yourself without a recipe: cracking and boiling eggs, cooking rice, chopping safely, following a recipe accurately and keeping a cast-iron pan in shape. Start here before the five dinners lesson.
- 7.7How to cook rice on the stoveMeasure the water for the type of rice, then keep the lid on until the timer ends.
- 7.13How to season cast ironSeason cast iron with thin coats of oil baked hard, and never put it away wet.
- 7.1How to set a tableSet only what the meal needs, in the order it will be used, from the outside in.
- 7.6Boiling an egg to the yolk you wantStart timing when the eggs go into boiling water, and stop the cooking in ice water.
- 7.2Cracking an egg cleanlyCrack eggs on a flat surface, into a small bowl first.
- 7.9Chopping an onion with the claw gripCurl your fingertips under and let your knuckles guide the blade.
- 7.3Following a recipe and measuring accuratelyRead the whole recipe first, then level dry ingredients, read liquids at eye level, or weigh everything.
- 7.15Five dinners you can cook from memoryLearn five flexible dinner patterns, not five fixed recipes.
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