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Listen, you work hard. When you come home from a tiring day, planning and cooking a meal can seem daunting. But, it doesn’t have to be! By learning essential cooking skills you can lower your food bills, eat more nutritiously, and turn cooking into a fun experience. So, join us, as we go over ideas that will help you learn to cook like a chef.

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Learn to Cook Like a Chef: The Ultimate Guide

So you’ve decided to learn to cook like a chef. You’ve scheduled more kitchen time, cleaned your stove and hit up the grocery store to grab all the ingredients you’ll need. Good for you! You’re well on your way to learning how to cook like a professional chef.
But now comes the hard part: you actually need to start cooking. The good news is, in the age of the internet, going into the kitchen alone without any baseline for where to begin is no longer necessary. Thankfully, there are plenty of professionals out there who are gracious enough to share their knowledge on how to cook just about anything.

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How To Improve Your Cooking Skills

Learning how to cook can be difficult to someone who’s never had their parents or an adult teach them when they were younger. As you grow older, you’re probably more embarrassed about your skills in the kitchen – or lack there of.
But no matter what level you start out at, mastering the culinary arts can be incredibly important to not only independence but to impress your friends and family.
While, culinary school will teach you all about different flavours, proportions and techniques, it’s not necessary to master the basics. After all, not everybody wants to be a world-class chef. In this blog post, we’ve put some simple techniques you can use to take your cooking skills to the next level.

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10 Things I Learned From Culinary School That Every Home Cook Should Know

This is French for “everything in its place.” It’s the first lesson I learned in culinary school, and it’s one of the most important ones. Here’s how mise en place works: choose a dish to prepare, then consider all of the ingredients and equipment that you’ll need.
Next, make sure you have everything you’ll need on hand before you start cooking. That way, you won’t be caught off guard in the middle of cooking your food and you can fly through any recipe quickly and efficiently.