Thursday, March 04, 2010

Cooking as an exact science

Cooking may seem easy. After all, your mother makes it all the time, several times a day. But try to stir the sauce in the pan and frying meat, and you'll soon find out that there is more to cooking than meets the eye. 

Cooking is actually quite difficult not because it is a difficult task, but because it is an exact science. This means that you can not just put all the ingredients you  want in any size. To reach the flavor you want for you right, you need the exact amount of ingredients, from the number of veggies that you include the number of times you load the salt. A little more than what you need to be disastrous for the taste palate. This is especially true with flavors like salt, sugar and other 
spices. 

This is why we measure the ingredients in the cooking process. Without knowing how to measure the ingredients right, you can not make a perfect tasting dish, unless of course you have that natural gift and instinct for cooking, as you can  Making exceptionally flavorful dish, you can put anything you want. 

Measuring cups are there to help any novice in cooking. And of course there are the cookbooks, which will tell you the exact amount of each ingredient, you have to put in. While most experienced cooks swear to follow your own instincts and make your own 
measurements for the first time chef and the not-so-new field, it is first important to 
Follow the instructions to the letter, and then as you gain experience, experiment with different tastes. But if you can follow what the cookbook says or you  Follow your own recipes, you're still a way to measure the ingredients in a precise manner. 

There are a lot of measuring tools available in the market which will help you in cooking. One of the key, and the set you should not cook without is the set of measuring cups and spoons. It is the staple of the recipe books. Without a set of  cups and spoon, you will not be able to decide how much ingredients you need to, because they often will cookbooks specify the number of how many cups or teaspoons. 

Another important tool in the kitchen, you should invest in if you are really serious in your cooking career is weighing scale. This is not the scale that you use to watch your weight. Rather it is the kilogram scale, where you often put meat, fish and vegetables to decide how they weigh. These are sometimes also mentioned in recipe books. Although not as frequently used as measuring cups and spoons, scales used in professional cooking recipes, and also by cooking for many people. Sometimes because of lack of access to cups and spoons, it is difficult to measure the ingredients because they are growing along with the amount of food is great. 

Cooking, as they say, is not only an art but a science-an exact science. Make a delicious food is an art of precision and the quantity of the amount used to make the food, requiring no skills.

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