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    Home » Techniques & Skills » Page 2

    Culinary Techniques

    Do you want to become a master chef of your home?  These are the same cooking methods and culinary techniques taught in culinary school designed in a modern way to learn at home.  Each of them comes with multiple recipes to practice the technique and continue to improve.

    Not sure where to start? Consider How To Remove Pin Bones From Salmon or How To Roast Bones for Broth or Marrow or the Why Soaking Beans Matters.  They will amp up your skills in no time!

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    Why Soaking Beans Matters + Quick Soaking Hack

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    How To Substitute Honey For Sugar When Baking

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    How To Cream Butter and Sugar | The Creaming Method

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

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

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    How To Make Roasted Garlic By The Head or Clove

    Are you a stock purist or a complete utilizer? Find out if you are using the best stock ingredients and learn what can & can not go into stock.

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

    Chicken Stock Versus Broth: Homemade Stock Series Part One

    How To Rehydrate Dried Mushrooms + Recipes Using Dried Mushrooms

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    Three Tips for How To Make Stunning Sugared Cranberries

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    How To Buy & Store Cooking Pumpkins

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    How To De-Stem Currants Quickly + Helpful GIF

    Learn how to marinate by mastering the parts of marinade, as well as the different kinds, and how it tenderizes (or doesn't). Plus, marinating safety tips!

    How To Marinate For Maximum Flavor

    Understand cornmeal better and learn about the differences in color, method, and grind of cornmeal as well as a collection of sensational cornmeal recipes!

    How To Buy & Store Cornmeal + Cornmeal Recipes

    Want to impress your friends and family and make the world's most epic apple pie? Now you can with my #1 tip for the best apple pie you've ever tasted!

    #1 Tip For The Best Apple Pie You've Ever Tasted!

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    How to Dispose of Grease from Cooking

    Learn everything you need to know about how to buy and store apples so you can enjoy all your autumn apple recipes to their fullest! There's even a handy-dandy FAQ section where you can find lists of the best apples for baking, eating out of hand, making cider, and many more!

    How To Buy & Store Apples + Apple FAQ's

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    How To Cook Eggs In Stainless Steel Cookware

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    How To Make Soft, Medium, & Hard Boiled Eggs

    Learn how to navigate your grocery or farmer's market to buy the right eggs for you. Plus, how to keep them fresh when you get them home!

    How To Buy & Store Eggs

    Learn how to read USDA beef labels, what the value is of a graded meat, and find out about recent changes to USDA beef labels and how it effects you.

    Understanding USDA Beef Labels

    How To Buy and Store Ground Beef

    Learning how to stir-fry can take your dinners from good to excellent. Find out about stir-frying, the ingredients you should use, and if you need a wok now.

    How To Stir-Fry Any Meal

    Learn why + how to blanch and shock, what foods you can blanch and shock, as well as tips for doing it better. Plus, recipes that use blanching & shocking.

    How To Blanch and Shock

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    Hi! I'm Mackenzie! If you're looking for a modern culinary education at home, then you've come to the right place. Let me help you become your own master chef by learning professional cooking techniques without the cost of culinary school! Learn more about me and the blog.

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