Tips For Novice Cooks: Flour: Wheat & Gluten-Free
- At April 18, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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Overview of consumer flours with and without gluten used for cooking and baking including shelf-life and storage.
In this video:
• Wheat versus gluten-free flour. 00:34
• Types of wheat flour. 1:34
• Storing flour. 3:19
Tips For Novice Cooks: Herbs, Spices, & Extracts
- At April 11, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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Herbs, spices, and flavorings should be selected based on your tastes and budget, not on the advice of internet influencers or popular cooking show hosts.
In this video:
• Fresh versus dried herbs. 00:39
• Ground versus whole spices? 2:30
• Use or best by dates. 3:55
• Natural and artificial extracts. 4:41
Tips For Novice Cooks: Butter: Salted Or Unsalted
- At March 28, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips
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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.
Tips For Novice Cooks: Frequently Used Kitchen Utensils
- At March 22, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips
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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
Tips For Novice Cooks: Ovens
- At March 14, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, New Video
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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
- At March 12, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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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
Microwave Ovens
- At March 01, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
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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
To Sift, Or Not To Sift?
- At February 22, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
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Some recipes, like cakes, call for sifted flour. Unlike countries that use metric weights in grams, U.S. recipes use cups. One cups of sifted flour does not equal 1 cup of four sifted. In both cases, it aerates and removes clumps of flour. But, the weight of sifted flour is less than unsifted flour. More flour can contribute to tough dry cakes.
Sifting ingredients does not mean you must invest in a sifter. A large sieve can serve as a sifter when needed.
In this video:
• Reasons for sifting. 00:37
• Why sift flour and sugar? 1:57
• When to sift. 2:30
• Use a sieve for sifting. 3:11
Tips For Novice Cooks: Little Or No Cooking Recipes And Meals
- At February 16, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
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Eating healthy meals does not require a lot of cooking experience. A food industry myth is that eating out is more economical than home cooking. And yet, one of the first thing cut during hard economic times is dining out.
You do not have to spend hours in the kitchen preparing healthy meals. Hundreds of recipes and meals requiring little or no cooking. When you compare the cost of home cooked or prepared foods to commercially prepared foods you can eat organic meals for a fraction of the cost.
In this video:
• Cooking is older than homo sapiens. 00:36
• Recipes that do not require cooking. 1:54
• Simple cooked recipes. 3:34
• Slow cookers versus pressure cookers. 6:01
Tips For Novice Cooks: Recipe Blog Nutrition And Stylized Food Photos
- At February 10, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
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Most cookbooks, cooking shows, and blogs use professional stylized photos you should ignore. In most cases your version will not look like the photo or video. Even foods plated by a cooking shoe host are stylized to make them more appealing. It is legal, but deceptive. Courts allow stylized photos citing “reasonable consumers” know they do not represent the actual foods.
In addition to stylized food photos are nutrition facts that are too good to be true. All commercially prepared foods must have accurate nutrition information. The requirement does not apply to recipe blogs. Nutrition information that sounds too good to be true probably is.
In this video:
• Ignore stylized recipe photos. 00:33
• Recipe blog nutrition facts accuracy. 2:48