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
Tips For Novice Cooks: Recipe Ingredient Measurements & Temperature
- At February 06, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
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Some recipes require more accurate ingredients measurements than others. For example, cakes, muffins, biscuits, pastries and pie crusts.
Most recipe blogs and cookbooks using measuring cups do not specify which type of cup to use; wet or dry. There are significant difference that can drastically affect a recipe.
Also, some cake recipes specify sifted ingredients and room temperature ingredients.
This video clarifies when to use room temperature ingredients, what room temperature means and how to accurately measure ingredients.
In this video:
• Why use room temperature ingredients? 00:30
• Accurately measuring ingredients. 2:15
Brown Rice Versus Black And Wild Rice
- At February 04, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, New Video
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Brown, black, and wild rice are gluten free whole grains. This videos compares their nutrition, and the differences between black and wild rice.
In this video:
• What is black rice? 00:38
• What is wild rice? 1:29
• Nutrition: carbohydrates, fat, protein. 2:22
• Nutrition: vitamins & minerals. 2:46
• Cooking times. 3:06
• Storage and shelf life. 3:31
Tips For Novice Cooks: Anatomy Of A Recipe
- At February 01, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
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Many recipes promote failure instead of success. Recipe blogs now dominate the internet. Anyone can become an expert cook, nutritionist, diet expert, and food photographer. At least according to their blog.
Many recipe blogs provide more advertisements than useful information. Blogs that offer nutrition facts can provide erroneous or misleading information to make their recipe appear to be healthier than it actually is.
In this video:
• Anatomy of a recipe. 00:37
• Recipes are a guide. 1:38
• Beware of inaccurate statements and tips. 4:37
Tips For Novice Cooks Video Series
- At January 29, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
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Prepared foods account for 60% of the American diet. The trend from home cooking to prepared foods has increased since the 1980’s. The results have been decreasing life expectancy and increasing heart disease and diabetes.
The problem is not eating prepared foods, but eating the wrong prepared foods. Comfort foods that are high in calories and sodium and low in most essential nutrients.
Many Americans pay for prepared foods (restaurant, fast foods, store bought) with credit not disposable cash.
Home cooked meals, despite misinformation from the food industry, saves thousands of dollars a year per person and healthier than prepared foods costing much more.
With home cooking, you can eat steak for less than the cost of a hamburger meal.
Essential Nutrients: Canned Vs. Homemade Soups
- At October 06, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Canned soup is convenient. But, many are not good sources of essential nutrients. This video compares the nutrition of two nationally available canned soups to a simple homemade version.
In this video:
• Convenience versus nutrition. 00:45
• What you see versus what you get. 1:15
• Homemade versus prepared soup ingredients. 2:56
• Organic versus GMO ingredients. 4:35
• Canned versus homemade nutrition facts. 5:53
Oxalate And Low Oxalate Diets
- At September 26, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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People at high risk of having calcium-oxalate kidney stones are encouraged to eat a low oxalate diet. After numerous comments about my August 2019 High Oxalate Foods Facts & Myths video having outdated information, I resisted the subject. Not only is the information in the previous video still relevant, there has been no new developments.
Fad low oxalate diets for the masses are designed to increase meat and fat consumption, increase dietary supplement sales, and reduce plant food consumption. Ironically, there is significant data high plant food diets, including high oxalate foods, are linked to long, healthy lives.
In this video:
• Oxalate facts & myths video. 00:45
• What is oxalate? 2:20
• Oxalate and kidney stones. 3:56
• Is oxalate toxic? 6:14
• How your body removes toxins. 8:52
• What is a low oxalate diet? 9:42
• High and low oxalate foods. 10:31
Organic Foods To Avoid
- At September 06, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Five Easy Ways To Cook Eggs
- At July 10, 2023
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Diet, Education, New Video
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Eggs are a good source of high quality, affordable, protein. About 13 grams (20% of the daily value) for two large eggs. While people with high cholesterol should avoid or limit egg consumption, most healthy people can eat eggs without increasing blood cholesterol levels. And, you do not need cooking experience for these five easy recipes; hard/soft boiled, fried, poached, and scrambled.
In This video:
• Eggs are not just for breakfast. 00:35
• Egg nutrition. 1:02
• Eggs and cholesterol. 2:01
• Eggs and salmonella. 2:51
• Five easy ways to cook eggs. 3:56
• Hard boiled (cooked) 4:08
• Soft boiled (cooked) 7:25
• Fried 8:46
• Scrambled 9:49
• Poached 11:18