Cooking for beginners: the basics

In short: Those who learn to cook need few basic techniques, fresh ingredients and a little patience. With simple recipes and good preparation the first dishes soon succeed.

In more detail: “Mise en place”, i.e. setting everything out beforehand, makes cooking calmer.

In detail

• Read the recipe: Read it completely first, then lay out ingredients and equipment.
• Knife: A sharp chef’s knife is safer than a blunt one (messer-pflege-und-schaerfen).
• Salting and seasoning: Taste step by step (salz-arten-und-verwendung, gewuerze-und-kraeuter-grundlagen).
• Temperature: Preheat the pan before frying, do not overfill (maillard-reaktion).
• Pasta and rice: Learn the basic recipes (nudeln-richtig-kochen, reis-kochen-sorten-und-methoden).
• Eggs: Know cooking times (garzeiten-eier).
• Vegetables: Cook gently (gemuese-schonend-garen).
• Hygiene and safety: Wash hands, keep raw meat separate, never leave hot pots unattended.