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    Home » Techniques & Skills » Cooking Basics

    Cooking Basics

    These entry level culinary techniques are the ones that take your cooking confidence to the next level.  Ranging from instructions on how to butcher meat to how to prepare ingredients so they bring your meal more flavor, these tutorials help improve your cooking on a basic level.

    Not sure where to start? Consider How to Dredge in Flour or Why to Use Scalded Milk or the How To Marinate for Maximum Flavor.  They will amp up your skills in no time!

    How To Season And Flavor Foods Like A Chef

    Can Pork Be Pink In The Middle? (A Home Cook's Guide)

    How To Dredge In Flour (and Why It’s Not Breading)

    How To Remove Pin Bones From Salmon

    How To Brine A Turkey For Thanksgiving

    How To Roast Bones For Bone Broth, Homemade Stock and Marrow

    How To Make Scalded Milk + Why You Should Use It

    What Is The Best Oil For Deep Frying?

    Why Soaking Beans Matters + Quick Soaking Hack

    How To Brown Butter (Beurre Noisette) For Cooking and Baking

    Mirepoix Is The Ultimate Flavor Foundation. Are You Using It?

    How To Make Roasted Garlic By The Head or Clove

    Making Chicken Stock With Quality Ingredients: Homemade Stock Series Part Two

    Chicken Stock Versus Broth: Homemade Stock Series Part One

    How To Marinate For Maximum Flavor

    How to Dispose of Grease from Cooking

    How To Cook Eggs In Stainless Steel Cookware

    How To Make Soft, Medium, & Hard Boiled Eggs

    How To Stir-Fry Any Meal

    How To Blanch and Shock

    How To Make Infused Oils

    How To Make A Vinaigrette

    How To Make Stock Part 5 : Improve Your Stock

    Mashed Potatoes (or are they?)

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