Cookery
Learning the basics of cookery is a great way to eat well and save money, as well as being an enjoyable and rewarding hobby. Cooking at home is almost always cheaper than going out or buying only convenience foods and almost always a more healthy option, enabling you to have better control over your nutritional needs. Delight your family and friends with your cookery and learn about new cultures at the same time.
Cooking needn’t be difficult, the best approach is to learn the foundations before you take on anything too challenging. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can then start to be creative and try new things. You’ll also need to get yourself kitted out with some essential ingredients and tools, such as good pots and pans etc.
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A basic Cookery lesson
Knowing the terms
Just knowing the terms of cookery and what they mean goes a long way in getting started. Here are the basic terms:
- Baking -Cooking in an oven with dry heat
- Blanching - fruits and vegetable are immersed in boiling water to make them easier to skin or peel
- Boiling - cooking in boiling water
- Braising - meat or vegetables are browned in oil, and then transferred to the oven along with cooking liquid. Perfect for less than tender cuts of meat
- Broil - cooking by exposure to direct heat in a gas or electric range
- Brown - cooking meat quickly on top of the stove using a small amount of oil or fat to create a browned, crusted surface that seals in meat juices.
- Fry, or pan fry - cooking in a small amount of oil on the stove top
- Sear - much the same as browning
- Steam - A method of cooking with steam, usually in a tight container over boiling water
- Stir fry - an Oriental method of cooking, usually in a wok
- Stew - cooking meats slowly in liquid that cover the meat - cooked slowly below the boiling point
Cookery tips
A good suggestion is that you adopt a method used by cooks called “mise en place”, meaning “all in place”, before you begin. Nothing is more frustrating for the beginning cook than having a dish begin to burn on the stove while they look for an ingredient hiding in the pantry. Have everything ready, including pans, mixing bowls, measuring cups and spoons and utensils. Although this method takes a bit longer, it insures you have all the proper ingredients; you are not searching for something, or chopping onions while the garlic is burning on the stove. It also gives you the opportunity to concentrate on task at hand, which is the pleasure of cooking. The time you lost in “mise en place” is now regained because you have all the prep work done.
