Your best cooking tip

[Crazy Jamie]

What would be your best cooking tips to just add that little bit of difference to whatever you're cooking?

The one that immediately comes to mind is to never put potatoes straight into boiling water. Put them in cold water and then allow the whole thing to heat up on the stove. Yes, it takes longer, but the potatoes are much better for it. I promise.

[~Lightning~]

Leave your yorkshire pudding batter out for as long as possible before cooking it , it thickens and generally gives you a better end result (I mean 6-7 hours time, not a few days)

[Xu Huang]

1. Turn on Oven

2. This is the tricky bit, put food in the oven for the time recommended on the packet, none of this 'we'll give it 5 more minutes just to be on the safe side' business.

3. Once said time has elapsed, take out of the oven

4. Eat

Yeah that's pretty much how I roll.

[Sirithe]

Scrambled eggs.
As you cook them throw in a little bit of lemon pepper. They usually taste better as long as you don't overdo it.

[ATRLOGfan]

My tips:

1. Never walk away from what you're cooking (my sister learned this the hard way when heating up oil to make funnel cakes).
2. Never fry bacon nude.
3. Experiment as much as possible. As nasty as it sounds, peanut butter bacon sandwiches are actually pretty damn good.

Edit: That's peanut butter banana bacon sandwiches.

[Schteve]

Never fry bacon nude.:chuckle: Is this from firsthand experience?

Also, I hope that wasn't right before you slathered on some peanut butter and made it into a sandwich. :hmm:

[Blaster]

Definetly for scrambeled eggs always have pepper and salt in it.

Also for pasta its always good to add a little bit of ground up meat in the sauce YUM!

[DJS95]

My tips:

when your cooking something that can have salt, like rice, cook it, then put a little sprinkle of salt on. it taste a lot better if you let it cook without salt on it.

oh yea, and when you make spagetti, (excuse my spelling) put a little sauce in the middle and put a lot of parm. cheese on it. it taste dilish!

[Austin.]

Hmm when you bake rolls put just a little butter on while they are in the oven, the butter melts into the rolls so that way the top isn't the only thing with butter. Believe me, it is really good.

[DJS95]

oooo... that sounds ausome!

[bman3k]

When the suggested cooking time is 12-15 minutes, take the food out at 12. If it's undercooked pop it back in for a bit, if it's over cooked you can't do anything :(.

Pancakes don't require an oiled pan, just a non-stick one.

[Conway]

Good Advice:

Don't leave anything alone when cooking something.
Always prepare extra materials for the thing you are making
Make extra servings for leftovers