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The Cook editors at The Daily Meal never stop asking questions about cooking. In fact, we have contributors telling us new tricks of the trade on a daily basis.
While cooking advice can be narrowed down to the most specific questions (like, say, how do you use a pressure cooker?), we also want to know what those overarching skills and qualities are that make so many talented chefs, cookbook authors, and bloggers as great as they are today.
Want to know how we found out? We just asked them, and now we have a neat and easy list of their thoughts for you to refer to.
We didn't just go to one expert, but to several, from big names like TV personality Sara Moulton and legendary inventors like Nathan Myhrvold to talented and hard-working chefs that are, probably right now in fact, ferociously working away at the stove to create beautiful and delicious masterpieces with food.
These tips range in topic and scope; some are ones you should remember every single time you're in the kitchen (like salt!), and others are things like roasting a chicken, because if you don't know how to do it, then you can just forget about being a good cook.
Some had us going "right, right…" and others had us raising an eyebrow, but at the end of the day, the tips listed here are things that we think you should know (and pass along to others) if you ever want to join the ranks of Child, AndrĂ©s, and Beard. So put your pride aside for a moment and take a look, we think some might surprise you.
Salt
It's your best friend in the kitchen, says Joseph Lessard, head chef of The Goddess and Grocer. While we're always trying to lower our sodium intake, a good cook knows that they need to use at least some when cooking, because it brings out amazing flavors of even the most basic recipes, says Lessard.
Use a Scale
Fitting coming from a pastry chef, but Wakerhauser says that scales are a great tool to have in the kitchen for all types of cooking. Think of it like the thermometers: it ensures confidence and confidence equals greatness.
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Clean as You Go
Another thing Roberts learned when cooking with some of the country's best chefs is that you have to be a diligent cleaner. We know, it's the worst part of cooking, but cleaning throughout the process, rather than all at the end, makes it a much easier job.
Too Much Is OK
Grocery shopping and getting the right amount of ingredients is a honed skill (and one that can also make you a good cook), but knowing that cooking too much isn't the end of the world, says Wakerhauser, makes you a good cook.
Wakerhauser always cooks large, planning for leftovers that she can eat throughout the week or use to make another meal. It's about being creative and organized, which are a couple of other pointers that you see on this list.
Keep Your Knife Sharp
Along with salt, a knife is your other best friend in the kitchen so please, take care of it. Lessard never begins to cook without giving his a few swipes with a steel, and investing in a knife sharpener isn't a bad idea either.
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Know How to Roast a Chicken
Interestingly enough, it's something that a lot of people are intimidated by, says Medrich, but if you know how to roast a chicken, you know you're a cook (and a good one, of course).
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