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What are some kitchen skills you don’t have but wish you did?
Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:40 pm
I can’t quarter a chicken properly to save my life. I’ve watched videos, it doesn’t look that difficult, but every time I go to quarter a bird it’s a massive failure.
I also did not grow up fishing, so cleaning a fish is just something that isn’t in my wheelhouse.
I also did not grow up fishing, so cleaning a fish is just something that isn’t in my wheelhouse.
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Posted on 7/9/22 at 8:49 pm to AbitaFan08
quote:patience
What are some kitchen skills you don’t have but wish you did?
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:09 pm to AbitaFan08
I wish I could skin and debone a fresh water trout the way they do it in northern states. They dont filet it and get a lot more meat
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:16 pm to jamiegla1
Yeah cleaning fish. Despite practice and seeing my dad do it 700000 times I suck at it. I can clean a deer or a pig like a master, but I wreck some fish.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:19 pm to SuperSaint
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patience
For sure. And precision- I don’t like baking because it’s too precise. I’d much rather cook by sight/feel. A dash of this, a handful of this, etc
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:22 pm to AbitaFan08
Cooking sugar/caramel has been the most difficult thing for me personally. I always plan extra time for mistakes.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:26 pm to AbitaFan08
probably more saucier skills
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:31 pm to AbitaFan08
I can fry pretty good chicken, but I wish I could fry chicken as good as Popeyes or what you get at a really good southern buffet for lunch in a small town. I just don’t even try anymore cause it’s just as cheap to go to Popeyes and I don’t dirty up my whole damn kitchen.
Posted on 7/9/22 at 9:44 pm to AbitaFan08
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I can’t quarter a chicken properly to save my life.
If I can get 16, 17, and 18 year old teens to properly quarter, 6-piece, and 8-piece a whole chicken, I guarantee that after 10 or so birds, you'd be an expert!
Two skills that I believe to be the most difficult to master in cooking are patience and restraint. The ability to leave stuff alone and allow it to cook or knowing when to stop adding ingredients or elements to a dish. I find that the more I cook, the less involved my food becomes. There has been a lot of addition by subtraction over the years.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 9:21 am to JBM210
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Chopping a freaking onion
I was going to say knife work in general. I watch these cooking shows and feel inept every time they slice something.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 9:29 am to AbitaFan08
Baking and making sweets.
The only things in my wheelhouse are a basic cobbler and pecan pralines.
Would like to master a good french loaf type bread.
The only things in my wheelhouse are a basic cobbler and pecan pralines.
Would like to master a good french loaf type bread.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 10:06 am to AbitaFan08
definitely chopping. im not good at cutting consistent sizes and it always takes me too long
Posted on 7/10/22 at 11:46 am to AbitaFan08
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What are some kitchen skills you don’t have but wish you did?
to cook on the fly without a recipe, other than frying something in a pan or in grease, i am loss to create something that tastes good without a recipe to follow
Posted on 7/10/22 at 12:07 pm to AbitaFan08
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What are some kitchen skills you don’t have but wish you did?
Not making an absolute mess every time I cook something.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 12:30 pm to Aubie Spr96
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I was going to say knife work in general. I watch these cooking shows and feel inept every time they slice something.
And most of the time this is due to not having a sharp enough knife to actually slice through things easily.
Practice your knife sharpening skills and your cutting skills will get better.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 12:39 pm to keakar
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to cook on the fly without a recipe, other than frying something in a pan or in grease, i am loss to create something that tastes good without a recipe to follow
That comes with time and learning what goes together well, and what doesn't. I've been cooking for well over 50 years and never use a written recipe now except when baking some things since exact ingredients are important in that area.
When I first started getting into cooking, I'd use a basic recipe. Most times I felt the end result could use something more to make it better and I'd add that. More times than not, it did make it better and the times it didn't, I'd just not use it any more. You tweak the recipe until it totally pleases you and commit it to memory from there-------or at least write it down if you can't remember things and suffer from CRS.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 1:18 pm to gumbo2176
I agree with all that gumbo... plus focusing on techniques rather than recipes. Get the technique down, then mix and match.
Posted on 7/10/22 at 1:19 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
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Not making an absolute mess every time I cook something.
You need to video that shite
Posted on 7/10/22 at 1:32 pm to AbitaFan08
I suck at making sauces
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