Cooking for many people is part of everyday worries, not all families can afford to eat in cafes and restaurants every day.
But sometimes even the simplest dishes are made in such a way that it is simply impossible to eat, for example, the meat becomes tough so that it is not chewed, and the baked goods are half-baked. The hostess is sorry not only for spoiled products, but also for the time spent on cooking.
Our article will tell you about the 10 most common culinary mistakes that spoil even everyday dishes.
10. It is not enough to heat the pan before cooking
Many housewives, before frying the product, do not heat the pan properly, but put cutlets, steaks or fish directly into a cold container.
Experienced chefs advise heating the pan before cooking for a couple of minutes. This maneuver allows you to get tasty, well-done food.
9. Put meat from the refrigerator directly into the pan
Before you start cooking meat from the refrigerator, you should give it a little lie in a plate.
The fact is that a product having room temperature will be cooked in a pan evenly, it will not be half-baked. If you get the meat from the refrigerator and immediately throw it in the pan, then there is the possibility not to fry it properly, as some of its parts will still be frozen.
8. Fry in olive oil
Many have heard that olive oil is much healthier than vegetable oil, and the food cooked on it is tastier. This rumor served as a signal to the fact that some housewives began to use it in the preparation of everyday food of any kind.
The chef recommends abandoning this idea, they believe that extra virgin olive oil is not suitable for cooking foods that require a high temperature.
A variety of vegetables and salads will perfectly combine with such oil, it should not be heated, since it has a low smoke point and begins to burn even at low temperature.
7. Do not soak whole grains and nuts before cooking
Whole grain cereals and nuts should be present in the diet of a healthy person, as they contain slow carbohydrates, B vitamins, iron and other useful trace elements.
Most people know that cereals and nuts should be soaked before preparing meals from them. This is important to do because during soaking these products are saturated with a large number of useful elements (vitamins and minerals).
In addition, when soaked in them, gluten, phytic acid and other components are partially destroyed, which reduce the absorption by the human body of the beneficial substances of cereals.
Food made from products that have been soaked is easier to digest, tolerated even by people who suffer from food allergies.
6. Fry the garlic
Beginning housewives should remember one rule, it concerns the preparation of garlic.
Vegetables are added to the main dish last, especially when the food is cooked at a high temperature, if, for example, you start to fry it at the same time as meat, it will burn much faster, it will become impossible to eat.
5. Poor salt for pasta
Many people like to cook pasta, as this dish is considered one of the simplest and fastest. Not even everyone succeeds. When cooking pasta, you also need to follow some rules, then they will turn out delicious.
It is very important how to salt the water in which the product is cooked. If salt is not enough, then pasta will turn into a tasteless, dense mass, which you hardly want to eat. Such a dish will not save even the most refined sauce.
Cooking experts recommend putting one tablespoon of salt per 300 grams of pasta.
4. Use wet or too cold foods.
Before putting moist foods in the cooking container, dry them. This can be done with paper towels or napkins.
This manipulation is carried out in order to make the food tasty, and not turn into a liquid in the pan, unpleasant in taste and appearance, a mess.
Also, you can’t immediately start cooking too cold foods, meat or fish should be at room temperature, then they will be cooked without difficulty.
3. Do not let the meat “rest” after cooking
Some housewives try to immediately chop and serve just cooked meat to the table, so that, so to speak, the dish was in the heat of the heat.
This should not be done, the finished meat should be given a little "rest", that is, just stay in a baking dish. This is necessary so that the dish is saturated with the whole juice, because when cooking it is concentrated only in the middle of the piece.
The time of "rest" depends on the size of the meat, if, for example, a whole bird is baked, then it needs to stand for at least 20 minutes, so that the steak is saturated with juice for 5-7 minutes.
2. Continuously flip food
Inexperienced culinary specialists overuse the fact that they turn food too often.
When frying steaks in a pan at home, it is important to let the meat bake properly on one side before turning it on the other.
With cutlets, the situation is simpler, they can be turned over more often, because if you forget to do this, they will burn.
1. Digest eggs
Boiled eggs often serve as one of the main breakfast items. Their plus is that they are quite high-calorie, they contain useful substances. In addition, eggs are quite simple to cook, but even some people make mistakes in their cooking.
Before you boil an egg, you need to decide what kind of result you need to get. Not everyone loves hard-boiled eggs, as they are rather dry in taste and difficult to digest. But, those people who prefer to eat just such eggs should know that they cook exactly nine minutes.
If soft-boiled eggs seem to be tastier, as they are softer and easier to eat, then you should remember that they cook for no more than six minutes.