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Whenever I’m feeling blue, I tune into one of cooking legend Gordon Ramsay’s food shows. His screaming is soothing and I love absorbing all the advice on what not to do in the kitchen. You know if I ever end up having to make him lunch at a top-tier restaurant out of the blue. Don’t forget the lamb sauce? Check. Don’t send out raw salmon? Gotcha! Don’t be an idiot sandwich? Roger that! But there are tons of other cooking no-no’s that are extremely useful to know.

And redditor MomosOnSale got other cooking aficionados talking and sharing their advice on what you shouldn’t be doing in the kitchen. We’ve collected the best tips and tricks for you to snack on. Remember to upvote the ones that you found useful and if you’ve got any extra ones to share, drop us a comment below.

Pie artist, baking expert, and cooking diva Jessica Clark-Bojin told Bored Panda all about her kitchen pet peeves, the basic blunders that amateur cooks tend to make, and how to make our meals look enticing, so be sure to read on for her wonderful insights. Jessica recently announced the first book dedicated to pie art, 'Pies Are Awesome: The Definitive Pie Art Book,' and has just sold her very first NFT and the world's first-ever cryptoFoodArt.

Just for the record—ugh! Who uses glass cutting boards?!

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't pour oils down the drain!

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Coming anywhere near my non-stick pan with metal. If you scratch my pan I will scratch your soul.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Medium rare chicken. Works for steaks, but not for hen.

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"Weighing by volume rather than by weight is a big pet peeve of mine," pie artist Jessica shared with me in an interview. "The chemical reactions involved in baking require precise measurements of ingredients, and depending on how densely people pack flour into their measuring cups, they can be using up to 25% more or less than the recipe actually calls for!" Instead, she suggested using kitchen scales as an alternative. They're cheap. And they're much more precise. This leads to far fewer mistakes in the kitchen.

"Working mis en place can eliminate most blunders amateur cooks make… Issues with timing, forgetting certain ingredients, using ingredients at the incorrect temperature, etc.—all of these mistakes can be avoided when you take the time to prep and lay out all tools and ingredients before you start cooking or baking!" Jessica suggested getting everything ready beforehand.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't try to catch a dropped knife. Back away and let it fall.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) If it has touched raw meat, it can't go anywhere near cooked meat

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WHEN IT'S

DONE!!!!!

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"This way you aren’t wasting time waiting for your butter to chill for pie dough, or waiting for eggs to come to room temperature for meringue, overcooking one ingredient in the wok because you forgot you needed to dice another ingredient first, or suddenly realizing you’re completely out of salt."

For Jessica, food isn't just about the taste—the aesthetics are equally as important! Especially when it comes to making a good first impression. "We eat first with our eyes—and if we’re having a meal with friends over Zoom, we’re only eating with our eyes! Try sprinkling a complimentary spice/powder on your food through a stencil as a quick and easy way to add some aesthetic impact to your food," she suggested.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't cut meat immediately after cooking it, more juices will flow out, the meat will become drier. Wait a few minutes

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Never and I mean never panic if you start a fire on accident, you need to be calm enough to know if you have to smother it (oil or grease fires) or grab the extinguisher. Panicking can get your house burned down

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can still coach yourself to manage instinctive responses. A lot of involuntary reactions are acquired via practice and experience, whether good or bad. But to be fair I'm not sure how you would train yourself to manage reactions to kitchen fires.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn’t well put - “don’t panic” Isn’t useful unless you’ve replaced the “panic” with something else (as Sun Guy said, panic I’d involuntary). Educate yourself on fire safety, understand and know how to identify flames, know your plan and be prepared. The more you know, the less you panic.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

always keep a lid the size of the pan you're working with near by. so you won't have to think too much in case of emergency.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I have always kept a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall, between my fridge and pantry. Its close and ready to put out any fire.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We do to. And it should be noted not to keep and extinguisher NEXT to the stove because you want to be able to reach it if there is a fire ,and right next to the fire isn't where you want to be reaching.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Keep an extinguisher rated for grease fires as well as fire in general. In the kitchen. So far so good here!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in my 50s, I decided that it would be fun to put ALL of the candles on my cake. The heat was so intense that the inner candles were melting before all the outer ones were lit. Then the melted wax started to get on fire, and finally, the icing was starting to light up. Don't tell me not to panic - I was thinking about using the fire extinguisher on the blaze, but I wanted to eat it, after all. So I covered it with a metal mixing bowl and smothered it. Moral of the story: kids (or grandma's) don't try this at home.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never use water. Cut the heat and cover it with a lid. If that doesn't work, fire extinguisher and call 911.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm actually surprised that I never freaked out once I started something dangerous to happen ... but am a lot calmer than expected. But this has a price, too - I get seriously pissed afterwards. Anyway, this is maybe the most universal advice that always is right - remaining calm allows you to act controlled and rational, and there is no such thing as a situation getting worse by this.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I caught the edge of my shirt on fire while cooking and didn't notice until my girlfriend and her kids started yelling and panicking. I just looked down at the flame, looked up at them like "Really?" and patted it out with my hand, then went and changed my shirt and went back to cooking

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell that to my non-rational brain, see if it’ll listen to YOU! 🤣

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grab the pan's lid. Cover the burning pan. Fire requires oxygen to keep burning.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once started cooking and forgot that the oil in the pot was already heating... until it was burning. Luckily I had sense enough to put the top on the pot, so it died immediatly. Last Christmas, when my husband accidentally set fire to the desk with the fondue pot, I used an old towel. But my children were very scared.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For any fire think smother or baking soda FIRST. A grease fire hit with water is a grease fire that just got spread all over the place. Hit it with baking soda. And if you spill a shitton of oil on the stove while you are cooking and it doesn't ignite, throw baking soda on it anyway - while the fire is still on... It will keep it from igniting. And make it easier to clean up later!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pit the lid on it or a larger lid. Then put a wet tea towel on top and switch all the burners off.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I accidentally started a grease fire once, I did an “oh sh**” while throwing the lid over the pot 🤣

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma was once watching me and my brothers when I was about eleven. My youngest brother wanted mac and cheese and we have a gas stove. My grandma spilled water over the side of the pot and, being the perfectionist she is, grabbed a paper towel to wipe it off. The paper towel got too close to the fire and caught on fire. She panicked and started waving it around and my grandpa snatched the paper towel, threw it in the sink, and turned the sink on silently. My grandma doesn't exactly use our gas stove anymore.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Baking soda works well putting out a stove fire. Also if it's a grease fire dump a lot of salt on it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Baking soda. I set the cheese on fire (long story) - flames and all - without thinking I grabbed baking soda and dumped it on and the fire went out. My husband asked how I knew to do that and I have no idea - maybe something I saw my grandmother do? Baking soda is always nearby....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oil fire in our kitchen set off my first panic attack, now they won't stop.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've experienced a chip pan fire. Fortunately, my girlfriend at the time was sensible and wetted a towel and drained as much water from it as possible and smothered the pan (turned off the heat and we stepped away for a long time). My other friend wanted to pick up the pan and throw it outside. NO. NEVER. EVER. EVER. I do like home cooked chips, but NEVER fill the chip pan more than a third full of oil, never take your eye off the pan and always remember to pay attention. ALWAYS.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not recommended anymore by UK fire safety officials due to the difficulty in having the tea towel the right dampness - too dry it burns and too wet it can erupt. I was told it was a bad idea by a fire officer attending my kitchen fire (smothered most with a fire blanket). You're advice is spot on but your then girlfriend was lucky as it's not easy to get it right. https://www.fireandsafetycentre.co.uk/advice-centre/chip-pan-fires/#:~:text=A%20wet%20tea%20towel%20used%20to%20be%20de,warned%20this%20is%20no%20longer%20the%20accepted%20wisdom.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No longer recommended. Get the proper equipment instead - kitchen fire blanket and a fire extinguisher and know when to use each one.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

or....keep a jar of water by your stove, just for this very special occasion.

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Flour is good for smothering oil fires.

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"You can sprinkle paprika on mashed potatoes, cinnamon on pudding or ice cream, activated charcoal on home baked bread, matcha powder on your tea, cocoa powder on pie dough or toast… there are so many options! All you need is a flat surface and a food safe stencil—either store bought, or you can cut your own from acetate. You could choose a simple pattern, a word, or even a template of your friend’s face that you create on the computer yourself!"

Bored Panda had the pleasure of carving up the world of gastronomy in earlier articles as well. Previously, I spoke about kitchen mistakes with pie artist Jessica about some of the other issues that came pop up in the kitchen. For Jessica, problems in the kitchen can range from the tiny and insignificant to the dangerously disastrous. Distraction and a lack of preparation, in her point of view, are the main villains.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Never pour spices directly into a steaming pot on the stove. The spices will congeal in their containers from the moisture introduced. Instead put the spices in a separate side container then add to a steaming pot.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't use a nice knife on anything other than food. (a common offense would be opening a food package with it)

Don't send a nice knife through a dishwasher

Don't leave a sharp knife in the sink

Don't leave a knife wet, even ones claiming to be stainless will often rust if left wet.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knives are some of your most useful tools in the kitchen. Invest in the best knives you can afford and treat them with care, and you will have an amazing and consistent experience preparing food.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Glass cutting boards. Like seriously, just GTFO.

And in a similar vein, dangerously dull knives. I’ve seen some real bludgeons in other people’s kitchens; no wonder they hate prep work.

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"Kitchen 'mistakes' can range from the catastrophic, 'I forgot the pot roast in the oven and now the kitchen is on fire' to the more benign, 'I accidentally put paprika in the cookies instead of cinnamon', but in most instances, they stem from the same thing: distraction and a lack of preparation,” she said.

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In Jessica’s professional opinion, improving our skills in the kitchen starts with picturing in our minds all the steps that we need to take before diving head-first into the gastronomic fray. If you’re prepared, you’re less likely to run the risk of burning yourself, your kitchen, and your pride.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) guessing at amounts when baking.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Plus: double heat will not shorten the baking time by half. And double everything might not have the same result.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Always wear pants while cooking bacon.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) I'd like to add to this that you should read and understood the entire recipe before you start cooking. You don't have time to boil water when you need to "add boiling water". And it's nice to have the rice ready when you arrive at "serve with rice".

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a recipe that had 130g of Butter. The recipe said "mix 120g Butter with..." and at the end "use the leftover 10g of Butter to...". I overlooked that I had to use only 120g at the beginning, instead of the whole 130g. So yeah. Read the recipe through before starting.

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"Taking the few extra minutes to prep will give you a lovely stress-free baking experience!" Jessica believes that it’s hard to mess up if you follow all of these steps. What’s more, following them means that if any mistakes do pop up, you’ll catch them before they cause some serious havoc. 

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Jessica also revealed to Bored Panda about what cooking’s like in her family. Every member of her family cooks, however, they all have very different dietary preferences! You can imagine what a nightmare that is when it comes to actually getting people to taste the food as it’s being made.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Skipping fresh ingredients.

Just peel & chop garlic! Squeeze a lemon! Skip the jar/ bottle

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) For the love of god stop mucking about with whatever it is you're cooking. Unless it's something you specifically need to be mixing or stirring constantly, leave it alone! You'll never get proper color on things if they make more contact with your spatula than your pan.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Knowing when to stir and when not to stir comes with experience. Please feel free to muck about until you achieve your desired results and get comfortable with your cooking intuition:-)

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People coming into the kitchen to "help".

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“We have family members who are vegetarian, vegan, celiac (and just plain fussy) and it’s not always possible for the cook to taste what they are making for everyone else. But you can always bring in a pinch-taster and get a second opinion!" she said.

Jessica also gave us some useful tips on how to ensure that food products stay fresh longer than usual. “One of my favorite tricks is to serve fruits and veggies in cups with a layer of ice in the bottom. It keeps the snacks fresh and prevents them from getting dried out and floppy," she said.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Learned this the hard way: don't throw fresh chili peppers into a hot pan unless you want to pepper spray the whole house!

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Cooking everything on "high" because you want it done faster.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

High heat to sear meat when you want the outside cooked much faster than the inside. Low and slow if you want the meat cooked evenly. Both have their time and place, so make sure you know what you’re going for before picking your cooking method.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Adding salt as a matter of course, or just because the recipe says to. Taste first, and only add if needed. If you've used stock or a stock cube in your dish you might not even need salt, they already have it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most people put too much salt in their cooking. Use very little and let people add it later if they need it. I've had several meals served to me with so much salt they were inedible.

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"They make a pretty little bouquet in the cup, and the individual serving sizes mean no grubby little hands contaminating a communal veggie platter! Which I know is something at the back of all of our minds these days,” she pointed out that this is very useful in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't season a liquid before reducing it, it will become too salty after you reduce it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, allow liquids to cool a bit before tasting. Hot vs warm vs cool liquids all taste different. One of my favorite things is Korean Lunchbox Potatoes (Gamja Jorim). Because they are meant to be eaten at room temp, if you taste them while they are cooking, by the time you eat them fully cooled, you may as well be eating a block of soy sauce.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don’t press your burgers down as they’re cooking. You’re releasing all the juice. It’ll give you a dry ass burger.

There are such things as smash burgers, but I believe on those, you smash them at the beginning before the fat has a chance to melt so you’re not smashing the juice out.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First rule of Burger club. NEVER PRESS THE BURGER. The second rule of bur... Oh you know the rest.

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Meanwhile, Canadian cake designer Darci, the founder of Kake by Darci, also told me earlier what we can do to keep food fresh for longer. She said that products like milk, whipping cream, and fresh fruit spoil the fastest, so you have to use them all ASAP.

“If you have leftover fruit, you can make fillings! Milk, you can freeze into cubes and use later on. Whipping cream is an easy caramel recipe," Darci said.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Never put oil in the pot when cooking pasta, as the sauce will just slip and slide away instead of sticking to the pasta.

Pasta should never, ever be rinsed for a warm dish. The starch in the water is what helps the sauce adhere to your pasta. The only time you should ever rinse your pasta is when you are going to use it in a cold dish like a pasta salad or when you are not going to use it immediately

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adding olive oil to pasta water while cooking is pointless. I think the idea was that it was supposed to stop the pasta sticking together but all it does is float on top and serve no purpose at all.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) never let water touch chocolate.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Cutting with a dull knife. Get yourself a sharpener, even if it's a cheap one.

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Or, better yet, get a honer to realign the knife and make it last much longer than if you sharpen it regularly. Sharpen around once or twice a year, but hone your knives with each daily use.

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What useful food prep, cooking, and kitchen tips do you have for us, dear Pandas? What are the biggest kitchen no-no’s that you know of? Which of the things mentioned in this list have you done at least once? Share your thoughts in the comment section with all the other readers.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Resting is part of cooking. That bacon you cooked to perfection that's still in the skillet? Yeah, that's too late. You need to remove things from heat a little earlier than youd think so that the ambient heat continues to do its job. Otherwise you're overcooking it.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Remember, you can't get some stuff back after you add it. Go slow with seasonings, and lightly. You can always add more, but you can't take it back. Don't let your food taste like ocean water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ocean water is an improvement over my sister's cooking sometimes. Her food tastes like a salt lick.

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Using sugar to take the edge off a highly acidic sauce. Just put a damn carrot in it and let it absorb the acidity instead of covering it with a new flavor.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like to put in a couple of tablespoons of milk or cream to an acidic tomato sauce. If I want a more rich taste, it might be a bit of parmesan.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Cranking the heat to reduce the cooking time will leave you with a burnt outside and an under-done inside.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For example, like the first time i ever cooked pasta **cringe**

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't use a cold pan to sear something; get the pan hot first, better sear.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Do not mix hot cooking oil and cool sink water! I saw a girl burn the hell out of herself because she didn't listen to the Home Ec. teacher. She threw her hot oil in a sink with some cool water running. Boom! Sprayed hot oil all over her arm and neck. Let your oil cool folks.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't throw oil down the sink at all! Unless you want to develop a very close relationship with your plumber, not to mention mess up the sewers for everyone else.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't let your baking powder get clumpy. Tiny rocks of baking powder ruin anything you bake.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it has gone lumpy, rub it through a metal sieve with the back of a spoon.

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Cooking with extra virgin olive oil over high heat

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People Are Sharing The Biggest Cooking Mistakes They've Noticed Others Making (36 Pics) Don't grab something that is on the stove without a towel or some type of heat protection

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