Comments on: Top 10 Easy Ways to Improve Your Cooking

By: jon stamos

jon stamos — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:01:09 +0000

I hope it’s been mentioned that heart issues aren’t necessarily the main problem with a high sodium diet, it’s stroke. This is why, because of their low-fat high-sodium diet, many asian countries have a good cardiac record but poor stroke statistics.

Although salt makes everything taste great, MSG does as well, and we avoid that as a matter of principal. Drinking an entire bottle of Soy sauce can damn near kill you, and I see people use a pretty high fraction of that literally fatal dose regularly.

By: Mr. PersonGuy

Mr. PersonGuy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:52:54 +0000

Fantastic List. I especially like the one about the microwave, which I consider to be the enemy of all quality foods. Thanks for the tip about salt. I knew that everything tasted better with salt, but not the boiling tip.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:03:54 +0000

I was in agreement with everything until you wrote "FRY at steak" … madness.

By: Freak

Freak — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:42:02 +0000

man..u're get fat easier..

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:22:04 +0000

@lotus (248): Salt is not just a cheap way to add flavor. It’s a flavor enhancement. Cooking with salt doesn’t just make something salty, it actually enhances your perception of the flavors of the food salted.

Salt isn’t something to “move away from.” The human tongue tastes five basic flavors – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami. Plenty of things are sweet, all acids are sour, many oils and fats are bitter, and a lot of foods have umami. But only salt is salty.

Why is that relevant? I’ll tell you – if salt is something to “move away” from, something to avoid, then why did the human tongue evolve to have a sense dedicated to that alone?

I bet you avoid things like butter, too. Stop being trendy, take a culinary science course (trust me, it’ll turn around a LOT of your perceptions of health and flavor), and enjoy your foods properly seasoned, including salt.

By: Looser

Looser — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:06:31 +0000

umm… ok list i guess

By: lotus

lotus — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:23:13 +0000

Disagree strongly with the salt thing. Yes we need salt in a diet but for those who have moved away from having food “flavoured” by salt they you discover the taste of the food, rather than an added mineral.

But the rest is good

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:38:55 +0000

you forgot the most important one pay attention to what you are doing avoid being distracted, god i can’t count how many times thats screwed me over, especially when you don’t have a recipe to work off of but general knowledge.

By: Denzell

Denzell — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:40:32 +0000

Okay… now I’m hungry even though I just ate!

By: JayArr

JayArr — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:16:42 +0000

The ‘Fell On The Floor Rule’ essentially goes as follows:

Dry falling on Dry – no real time limit – just brush off the fuzz.

Any combination of wet and dry – be very careful unless you know the stuff coming into contact with each other are okay for consumption.

I grew up with the ’5-second rule’ and I’m still kickin’…even after a few 30-second delayed retrievals.

Mythbusters did a segment on the rule… check them out sometime. They found pretty much what we always knew.