Cooking Methods & Techniques: A Crash Course on How to Cook Delicious Food at Home for Beginners (eBook)

Want to learn how to cook, but not sure where to start? Have you been cooking at home for a while now, and are ready to take your meals from drab to fab?

Cookbooks and TV shows get you to follow along with recipes, but they don't teach you how to cook. Celebrity chefs use words like "sear," "sauté," and "poach" to describe ways of preparing food, leaving you to guess the methods, techniques, or even reasoning behind them. Culinary reference books are expensive and meant for professionals, and raise more questions than they give answers.

In Cooking Methods & Techniques, food writer and Tastyble editor Dim Nikov offers a complete and practical guide to good cooking for the busy professional, time-starved parents, or novice cook.

The book is divided into three sections:

1. A primer on the basics of cooking, helping you understand the principles of selecting, preparing, and storing food well and of getting maximum value from the appliances, gadgets, and cookware in your kitchen.

2. 50 cooking methods and techniques in a helpful and digestible way, so you can flip through them as needed in your daily cooking.

3. 10 cheatsheets, so you're never left guessing when reading recipes or preparing food on your own.

Part of what you'll learn in this book:

• The whys and hows of browning meat

• The keys to preparing steakhouse-style pan sauce

• The secrets of brining steaks, chops, roasts, and whole birds

• How to make salad dressing and homemade mayonnaise that don't separate

• Why not stirring the caramel makes it creamy and smooth

• When to grill with the lid on and off at a BBQ

• And many more...

No more bland, burnt, soggy, or mushy dishes! Instead, serve beautifully cooked meals that make dinner time an event for the whole family.