Tips For Novice Cooks: Butter: Salted Or Unsalted

Most cooking shows recommend using unsalted butter. Many commercially prepared unsalted butters have natural flavors. Natural flavors are synthetic chemical additives. Many premium unsalted butters do not added chemical flavors.

This video shares the differences between salted and unsalted butter and why using unsalted butter is not the best way to control the amount of salt and sodium in your diet.

Why You May Not Need 4,700 mg Of Potassium Daily

Potassium is an electrolyte that helps balance fluid levels in cells and blood. While sodium can increase blood volume, potassium decreases it. Plant foods are the best source of potassium, but it also comes from eating animal foods.

There are indications some people are not getting enough dietary potassium. Your doctor uses a blood test called Comprehensive Metabolic Panel (CMP) to check your blood potassium and sodium levels.

Some websites claim adults need up to 4,700 mg of potassium daily. Others claim as little as 2,500mg  daily is enough. For people with healthy kidneys, excess potassium is removed in your urine.

For people with kidney disease, excessive potassium can be life threatening. That is one reason potassium supplements are limited to 100 mg.

In this video:

• Do healthy adults need 4,700 mg of potassium daily? 00:46
• RDA, adequate intake and daily value. 2:45
• Potassium deficiency symptoms and risks. 4:41
• Low carb diets and potassium deficiency. 7:02

Tips For Novice Cooks: Frequently Used Kitchen Utensils

This video shares twenty multifunctional kitchen utensils for novice home cooks, and common utensil materials.

In this video:

• Common kitchen utensil materials. 00:34
• Multifunctional kitchen utensils. 2:34
• Optional utensils 6:22

Natural Versus Supplemental Protein

Millions of people take protein supplements in the form of bars, beverages, capsules and pills. Many get enough protein from their diet.

While plant and animal foods provide complete protein (all nine essential amino acids), so protein supplement, like collagen, provide incomplete protein. Others have more nonessential amino acids than essential amino acids.

In this video:

• What is protein? 00:47
• Sources of natural food protein. 1:19
• Complete versus incomplete proteins. 1:53
• High versus low quality protein.2:41
• Added proteins. 3:47
• Supplemental protein is expensive protein. 5:20

Tips For Novice Cooks: Ovens

If you are in the market for a new oven, this video shares the differences between consumer conventional and convection ovens.

In this video:

• Conventional versus convection oven. 00:43
• Convection versus true convection. 1:33
• Conventional oven advantages. 2:41
• Convection oven advantages. 3:43
• Converting from conventional to convection baking. 4:07

Salt vs. Herbs & Spices

Salt is an essential mineral providing the electrolytes of sodium and chloride. Some people with heart or kidney ceases are advised to limit their salt intake.

Unlike salt, herbs and spices have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-viral chemicals.

In this video:

• Salt advantages and disadvantages. 00:42
• Difference between salt, herbs, and spices. 2:15
• Are herbs and spices superfoods? 2:52
• Substituting herbs and spices for salt. 4:11

Marketing Tricks: OTC Hearing Aids

Heavily advertised low cost over-the-counter hearing aids may not improve hearing as claimed or require more manual adjustments like volume control.

They also are not designed for people with severe hearing loss.

In this video:

• OTC hearing aids versus PSPAs. 00:40
• OTC hearing aid marketing hype. 1:27
• Protecting your hearing. 4:46

Microwave Ovens

Most homes have a microwave oven. While some are used to cook foods, like baked potatoes, most are used to heat liquids, melt ingredients like butter, and heat frozen foods.

This video shares how microwave ovens cook and reheat foods, and how to prevent foodborne illness.

In this video:

• What is a microwave oven and its uses. 00:35
• Microwave oven power and cycle times. 1:25
• Not all microwave ovens are created equal. 4:01

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