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
- 0
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
Carbs Versus Calories
- At February 12, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Education, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Low carb diets have guaranteed weight loss and disease prevention for more than 60 years. Instead of low carb they should be called low refined carb diets.
Replacing carbs with fat and protein may not be enough to cause weight loss and prevent or cure chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Billions of people around the world eat high plant food diets and live long, healthy lives.
In this video:
• Sources of food calories (energy). 00:39
• What are carbs? 00:56
• Processed versus natural carb calories. 2:03
• Carbs and diabetes. 2:48
• Carbs and weight gain. 4:27
Tips For Novice Cooks: Recipe Blog Nutrition And Stylized Food Photos
- At February 10, 2024
- By Daniel
- In Cooking Tips, Education, New Video
- 0
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
- 0
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
- 0
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
- 0
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.