Avoid culinary catastrophes with these simple tips
With the popularity of foodie magazines, culinary blogs, the Food Network and movies like Julie and Julia, the quest for better cooking skills is a widespread obsession. Cooking is often a process of trial and error, but eventually we learn from our mistakes.
At Jackson’s we polled a few friends, the staff and our own Chef Irv Miller to find out some of their most common culinary mishaps. Hopefully you’ll learn to create an extraordinary feast and not a gourmet mess.
Here are the top 5 most common cooking blunders that happen around Pensacola:
1. Not sampling as you go – taste throughout the cooking process to make sure your flavors are on track.
2. “Estimating” measurements instead of using measuring spoons/cups – don’t guess when it comes to most ingredients or you could end up with salty cookies.
3. Not reading the entire recipe before you start cooking – you might be out of an essential ingredient or realize one part needs to be chilled first.
4. Cutting meat too soon and not allowing it to rest after cooking – the juices redistribute throughout meat after cooking so wait about 10 minutes before slicing.
5. Adding food to the pan before it heats up – Food won’t cook properly or evenly if the pan isn’t sufficiently heated up.
Tell us! What kitchen catastrophes have you made and learned from?
