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To be well rounded as a cook at home or chef as a professional, one needs excellent baking skills in addition to cooking skills. Baking and cooking are two very different kitchen skills. Generally speaking, you bake cakes, cookies, breads - anything with flour. And you cook casseroles, meats, soups, and vegetables. When you bake, you must follow the recipe exactly and measure carefully.

First in a series of lessons and information on basic cooking skills.
BASICS OF COOKING LESSON #1

HOW TO READ A COOKING RECIPE

There is an old adage that says "if you can read you can cook." That's only true after you've had a little experience! Cooking terms can be confusing, and most cookbooks aren't as detailed as many beginning cooks would like.

Learn for Life - Get the skills necessary to do basic cooking – If you can’t cook your own steak and eggs, you probably aren’t going to make it.

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Why do the ordinary type of Pie Crust when baking. Here are instructions for the best and most famous Pie Crust ever devised. Here's the recipe for the famous Hot Water Pastry with very detailed instructions.

There are some rules to pastry making - and some I break constantly. For instance, most pie crust recipes use the cold water method.

It has not been so long since using a microwave oven in a professional kitchen was a serious no no. But those days are gone; forever. Here is the scoop to either bring you up to speed, or introduce you, on using a very important piece of cooking equipment

The microwave oven is now an essential part of most kitchens.