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
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
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
Refined Flour & Sugar Facts & Myths
- At November 24, 2021
- By Daniel
- In Diet, Health & Wellness, New Video
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Should you ban refined flour and sugar from your diet or limit the number of foods made with refined sugar and grains? Many fad diets blame refined carbs as the root cause of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other serious chronic disease. Americans are affected more by refined carbs than peoples in other countries. This video shares some of the health risks associated with diets high in prepared refined carb foods.
In this video:
• What is refined flour and sugar?
• Health risks of refined flour.
• Health risks of refined sugar.
• Refined versus whole grain flour.
• Refined versus natural sugars.
• To ban or not to ban…?