What Ruins Our Cooking?

June 24, 2024

Have you ever experienced the following scenarios?

In the morning, you get up with a very pleased and smooth mood, then you would like to cook and enjoy some satisfied breakfast to start your day, when you would like to fry some chicken leg to match some ice Coca Cola, it turns out that your fried chicken leg is over fired, and your day ends;

When you have some argument with your love, you would like to make a rich and candlelight steak dinner to enhance and improve the relationship, but when you grill the steaks, no matter how many times and how hard you try, your steaks are always scorched, your candlelight steak dinner is definitely gone and your relationship is worse;

Then WHAT RUINS OUR COOKING?

OUR MOOD

Happy and light mood can help us make things easier and more effective, this is the research and study result of psychology. And we need to use this to help our cooking.

So, when our mood is not at its status, please get out of the kitchen and get our hands off from any kitchenware, and just relax well;

When something negative or even bad things happen in the course of our cooking, we need to forgive the cause or the person who cause such kind of negative or bad things and focus on the other positive things immediately. Try the best to keep our mood isolated from the negative or bad things.

When we are cooking or even when we step into the kitchen, we need to stay calm, stay lighthearted and stay focused to enjoy the journey of cooking.

THE WRONG KITCHENWARE

For most of all or in most cases of our daily cooking, it is very often to use the wrong kitchenware for cooking convenience. For instance, we may use the rice cooker to cook steaks or chicken. Yeah, we can use the wrong kitchenware to cook the food through, but we can not cook the ingredients into a meal, let alone a quality meal.

RELY ON EXISTING COOKING EXPERIENCE TOO MUCH

As a cook, especially a professional cook or a chef, we all know that we need to adopt different cooking tactics to cook different meats, ingredients and foods. But in our daily cooking, few people will follow or even notice this or will ignore this simple and realistic rule directly.

We are empiricism to the cooking temperature and the cooking time easily. Actually, the cooking temperature and the cooking time are very tricky, especially when we cook thick meats or those foods we are not familiar with.

HOW CAN WE KNOW AND MONITOR THE INTERNAL COOKING TEMPERATURE EASILY?

In our real cooking, we cannot know and monitor the cooking temperature, especially the internal cooking temperature by experience or by touching with fingers or hands, because such kinds of old-style methods will cause unacceptable errors;

Then, we need to turn to meat thermometers or food thermometers, especially when we cook those meats or foods which require precise temperature controlling such as grilling steaks, BBQ chicken and the like, they can help us test and monitor the internal cooking temperature in seconds accurately.

As for meat thermometers, we highly recommend JIMUTO instant read thermometer IRT-10. Its key features are listed as following:

arc design, fast & accurate temp reading, out of box, large LED display & easy temp reading, lock reading temp, max & min records, calibration, 2 placing methods, IPX7, eco-friendly, bottle opener.

HOW CAN WE MONITOR OUR COOKING TIME EFFECTIVELY AND PRECISELY?

Again, we cannot monitor our cooking time by our experience because of its unacceptable errors;

Second, we do not recommend us to use our cell phone timer as a kitchen timer to monitor our cooking time, because the endless notifications of our cell phone will keep us distracted from the cooking easily and frequently;

So, we had better use a kitchen timer or a digital timer to monitor our cooking time. Here, we highly recommend JIMUTO digital timer JDT-303 as our kitchen timer to monitor our cooking time, it is accurate, super easy to use and versatile as its key features listed below:

countdown & count-up, 3 brightness modes, 3 volume levels, 4-inch LED display screen, mirror surface, eco-friendly materials;

FOLLOW THE WRONG RECIPE OR FOLLOW NO RECIPES AT ALL

Sometimes, we think that we can control our cooking without a recipe or any reference to others, but it turns out that we overestimate our cooking skills.

A right recipe is helpful or even helps us save our cooking, so we need to spend some time on selecting a right recipe before we start cooking, especially when we cook our unfamiliar food or meat for the first time.