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I'm an OK cook but sometimes I need a bit of help. So I wanted to find a few handy cooking tips and I came across a few here and there around the net. It's a small list but hopefully you will find it useful.

A couple of the tips mention ovens. Lots of various types of oven are availabe. For example wood pizza ovens are a class of oven found in a restaurant. A particular kind might be the deck oven which is in the main used for preparing bread or pizza. The oven mentioned below is the normal oven seen in the home kitchen.

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• Carrots make a good sweetener if you don't have a sauce handy.
• Set aside the juice from roasting as a basis for a gravy.
• Prepare in ample of time – it will avert a great deal of stress.
• Want to avoid soggy broccoli? The avoid over-cooking it!
• Do you rinse mushrooms with running water? Avoid this because the mushrooms will absorb the water. Instead wipe them with a wet cloth. Make sure you remove all the soil.
• The potato ricer is a very practical tool, specially if you desire to cook the best mash potato
• Salad can be diversified by using some red leaves.
• A quality salad spinner will help prevent your lettuce going soggy and looking lifeless.
• Steamer platforms that fold and are able to sit inside pans are the best for steaming vegetables.
• If you do not have fresh Rosemary, replace it with dried: a teaspoon of dried can substituted for a tablespoon of fresh leaves.
• In order to keep the juices within meat that will be roasted in an oven and stop the meat from drying-out, make sure you pre-heat the oven before you cook. This sear the outer surface of the meat.
• Always make use of a pan that is large enough – a bit bigger is far better than too small.
• When one purees soup they should employ a hand blender since it is much easier than moving the ingredients to the food processor.
• Do not use a fork to turn steaks. Instead use tongs and a spatula.
• Have you heard this proverb?: 'Wine that the cook would not drink should not be used for cooking'.

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Reference: Deck Ovens.