#cooking tips

[nil-the-glitch]

actually yknow what, no. this is not being limited to discord, yall get it too.

some general cooking tips (in which there is a brief senshi posession):

moisture is the enemy of crispy skin. pat dry with paper towel, and if you have the time and spoons, give a thorough but even coat of baking powder and let sit uncovered in your fridge overnight. this will dry out the skin nicely. for pork belly, create a tight foil boat so that only the skin is showing, and cover in salt to draw out moisture, repeating a couple times if necessary.

furikake seasoning, for the fellow rice lovers, is just nori (seaweed), sesame seeds, sugar, and msg/salt. you might have most if not all of these things already in your kitchen.

chai spice mix is just cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, & allspice.

pumpkin spice is just cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger.

to cure your own bacon, you only need water, white and brown sugar, and a non-iodized salt - himalayan pink salt is not iodized, if you cannot find butchers curing pink salt. from there, you can add any seasoning/flavoring you want.

the truly adventurous may cook their rice in green tea for a fresh clean taste.

you can tell if a fish is truly fresh by their eyes - clear and bright is fresh, while cloudy is older or potentially has been frozen.

it's cheaper to buy a large block pack of ramen from your local asian market and repackage the bricks into sandwich bags, than to buy a box of individually packaged ones such as maruchan or top ramen.

when buying meat, look at it's fat content - more fat marbling usually means more tender + flavorful.

you can save onion skins and other vegetable scraps to make your own broth with. you can also save bones for this. mix and match ratios to create your ideal flavor.

bay leaf will always make a soup or broth taste better, but Watch Out (they are not fun to bite into on accident).

msg is, in fact, not The Devil, that was just a racist hate campaign against the chinese and other oriental races. it's literally just a type of salt. it is no more dangerous to eat than any other type of salt.

washing your rice is important because it not only improves flavor and texture by removing excess starch, but it also helps reduce any residual pesticides or dirt, or even insect fragments (please remember that rice paddies are essentially giant ponds that all kind of things live in and swim around. you should also be washing all your produce in general.)

please salt your cooking water for pastas, it just tastes better and you will be happier for it.

boiled potatoes are also improved by salt water.

if you hate vegetables, please consider trying them fried in butter or perhaps bacon grease. it is healthier to eat them fatty than not at all.

healthy food does not in fact have to taste miserable. thats a lie. they are lying to you. free yourself from your blandness shackles. enter a world of flavor.

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[lowspoonsfood]

On a day you have slightly more energy than usual, get a whole bag of yellow onions, slice them into thin slices, and throw them into a slow cooker on low with half a stick (or more, butter is good for you) of butter for 8-12 hours. When they are nice and caramelized, spread them in a thin layer on a cookie sheet to freeze, but kind of score the layer in a grid pattern so you can break them into squares once frozen. That will give you enough caramelized onions for literal months, just throw a square or two into any soup, hash, sauce, whatever and it will taste like it took hours with no extra effort at that time.

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[1000-life-hacks]

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[thestarvingchef]

A Warm Welcome!

You can call me Tay. I’m a former chef with experience in fine dining, fast food, pizza whatever you name it. I spent a lot of time in my life experiencing food in all its forms. I haven’t used tumblr since I was a young teenager so I’m a little rusty here.

I’m gonna be completely honest here, I wanna post content and stuff on here but I have no idea whether there’s even an audience for it here. If you have any requests let me know, even if you just want cooking advice hit me up, otherwise imma just do me on here. If that appeals to you, chuck me a follow. DMs are always open aswell.

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[daily-deliciousness]

How to bake frozen chicken breast

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[good-advice-ganondorf]

Hey goondorf do you have any cooking tips

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

#cooking tips #just sayin' #other stuff

[reality-detective]

Did you know lemon peels are packed with vitamin C and entirely edible? 🙌🏻

Don’t throw them out! After you’ve peeled your lemons, store in the freezer, then when you’re ready, dehydrate them either in the sun, or on the lowest setting of your oven until they are hard to the touch. Blend them up and you have lemon peel powder (similar to lemon zest). You can add a tablespoon of that lemon peel powder to 1/2 cup of salt for lemon salt (or the same with pepper)! This adds a beautiful citrus note to things like pasta, stir fries and more. 🤔

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[bootleg-nessie]

These shits hit harder than the crack epidemic hit low income neighborhoods in the 80s

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[taintthesaint]

Cooking bacon with my shirt off just to feel something.

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[comingfromastatechampionasshole]

Wilt-resist your whipped cream! (A cheat, by Doc)

Okay, the phrase "by Doc" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here--I actually learned this tip from a gal I was competing with years ago in state fair (she beat my ass) and I'm sure other aunts and grandmas know it. But, whomst else on tumblr will deliver it to your eyeballs?

Because you know the trouble with whipped cream and whipped cream frostings is they tend to wilt over time, especially if they have to deal with absolutely any level of heat. A simple room temperature can make your pie or cake look weepy and sad. Your bowl of fresh whipped cream now looks worse than the fuckin' cool whip. Tragedy.

Now, I assume you, erudite and exceptional readers of this blog, are already using powdered sugar/icing sugar instead of standard sugar to make your whipped cream, not only because of greater stability but because it functionally removes the possibility of graininess. This is a "I want to make this whipped cream the night before" tip. Other tips like milk powder, I find, just don't have the same longevity as what's below:

Professionals use gelatin or agar-agar, which I don't like for two reasons: 1) Gelatin is not vegetarian and in the US is often made from pork, so fuck your Jewish or Muslim guests and 2) you have to bloom the gelatin or agar-agar, and it can be tricky to work with, and if you aren't the 'working with high-level mousses and creams often" type, it may be a waste of space in your kitchen.

But gee whiz, did you know there's a very cheap and intensely easy solution for busy housewives to keep her man loving her whipped cream, and by extension, her? Tell her, Don!

Why little lady, it's Jell-O (tm) brand instant pudding mix! Don't tell the ladies at the church bake-off...we won't.

This is the easiest possible way to get nice, stiff whipped cream that holds up for, I think my record is three days. It can also tolerate sitting in a warm room much much better than whipped cream really ought to be able to.

"But Doc, isn't Jell-O, uh, gelatin?"

Jell-O itself is, but Jell-O pudding is actually kosher. I assume other brands are as well, but I don't know this for a fact--so make sure to check the label if you're using a different brand. What's doing the work here is 'modified food starch' which is a stronger version of cornstarch, which I find, added to whipped cream, to require too much to be added, and the texture gets odd.

This is cheap! Your grocery store may vary, but this small box was 99 cents.

This is easy! All you do is add about 1 tablespoon of pudding mix per one cup of heavy/whipping/double cream* and then whip as usual.

It does lightly flavor the whipped cream, which I've never found to be a problem--I use regular vanilla mostly, but french vanilla is nice for banana cream pie, I used coconut cream for the pie I just entered WHICH WON BEST IN SHOW I MIGHT ADD. Chocolate is great for chocolate whipped cream. You're smart people, you got this. The only ones I don't recommend are tapioca (pearls) and Oreo (having about three bits of oreo in the whipped cream looks dirty rather than intentional.)

Go forth, and set your whipped cream on the sideboard with confidence!

*I'm aware these all actually contain different levels of fat, but let's get real here, they are often used interchangeably and only the craziest among us is going to seriously get into "What cream should you be whipping?" discourse.

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[bestrecipehealty]

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[lowspoonsfood]

You do not have to cook a recipe all at one time. Throughout the day, I will prepare the ingredients for a recipe and set them in the stove as I have energy to do. This includes any chopping of vegetables, and measuring out sauces or spices. Around breakfast I'll heat up pancakes in the microwave and pull out sauces. Around lunch I'll reheat yesterday's leftovers and chop up a vegetable. By the time I get to dinner, most recipes become some variation of "assemble in cooking vessel and apply heat."

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[hippieghost]

Random cooking tip:

Melt some butter in a pan and mix in some flour to make a roux, which you can use as a thickening agent for any sauces you were going to use butter in anyway. Works extra good for cream sauces, but also is nice for hearty stews.

Making gravy instead? Mix a little water and corn starch in a separate container and pour a little bit into your meat juices at a time while you whisk it really quickly. Gives it some body. Season to taste.

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[the-jellicle-duelist]

hello again! this is so stupid but i can't find your mushroom cooking instructions. I think tumblr has blocked the mushroom tag. "mushrooms" works but doesn't get your post. google site:tumblr.com doesn't work. I would have memorized it by now but I can't cook mushrooms as often as I want bc neither roommate will tolerate them. if you give me the Google keywords like the name of the guy who made the method I will find it myself, rn I try and get the julia child don't crowd them advice which isn't the god tier tips u had. or if you find ur post and share again i will literally write it out and stick it to my fridge. never will i rely on tumblr to store essential info like this again, this i vow.

thank u in advance for any help. <333333333

i looked for a bit but i couldn't find this post either (i think it's because i had to change my blog name for ~reasons~) but i will go over it again it's all good i do think more people should listen to me about mushrooms and other things

TL;DR - put raw, sliced or cut mushrooms into a medium hot pan with a couple of TB of water. cook until kind of grey. then increase heat and add butter/oil, and seasoning of your choice. cook until brown and delicious.

SO. cooking mushrooms. if you are sick and tired of cooking mushrooms and they absorb a load of oil and never get brown, then this is the advice you want

the short of it is because mushrooms are neither meat nor vegetable on a molecular level, you have to cook them differently than those things.

the cell walls that compose the mushrooms are sort of like dry sponges; when uncooked, they will absorb everything that is vaguely liquid, until they get full and burst. this is why when you slice mushrooms and put them into a pan, they will just drink any oil or butter in the pan. so, we have to break those cell walls first so they can't absorb anything.

there are a couple of ways you can do this. after you slice/cut mushrooms, you can put them into a medium heat pan and put a tablespoon of water in there, and cook it and move things around until the water is basically gone, and the mushrooms are basically grey. then you can add a little bit of oil or butter, season appropriately, up the heat, and saute all of your mushrooms until they are browned to your liking.

(this works better if you physically remove the mushrooms and then heat up the pan more before adding them back in but you don't have to it will get 95% of the way there just leaving them in the pan)

you can also slice/cut your mushrooms and then put them in a microwaveable dish, lightly covered, and cook them in bursts of 1-2 minutes until you get that grey cooked mushroom look. this is like less good, but does work and it sort of depends on how i feel like doing things and how lazy i feel. after you microwave, you can heat up a pan and cook as normal.

other mushroom tips:

you can wash mushrooms it's fine

if you have a weird mushroom (IE not a button mushroom) one of the best ways to clean them is to just soak them and gently agitate them. they will float and the dirt will fall to the bottom of your bowl

the effort required to over cook most mushrooms is simply herculean and therefore most people never need to worry about this

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[thefakerachelray]

Some legit cooking advice: know your oil smoke points.

I know we’re all believers in “the only essential oil is olive” here on tumblr.com (it’s my go-to for most things too), but you should really keep at least a couple of different oils around. Different kinds of oil have different smoke points - they start producing smoke at different temperatures. Olive oil is considered a medium-heat oil, so you can use it for a lot of things, but not everything. Cast-iron pans, for example, get too hot for olive oil very quickly and it will start smoking. You want something in the “high heat” category if you’re using cast iron, grilling, or doing anything that requires a higher temperature than about the medium-high setting on your stove. I use canola oil as my high-heat oil, but anything at that level or above should generally work.

Learn your smoke points now, so you don’t have to learn about them by setting off your smoke alarm making burgers like I did.

(Source for chart)

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