Where do you like to get your cooking tips? From your mom? Your other relatives? Cooking magazines? What about cooking shows on TV or cooking videos on YouTube channels? Well if you haven’t thought of it yet, Reddit is actually a great place for cooking advice, too. A good amount of professional chefs frequent the website, and luckily, many of them answered a thread by /u/BigBadWolf44 asking the question: “Chefs of Reddit, what’s one rule of cooking amateurs need to know?”
Here’s what they said.
Cook With Acid
“A lot of the time when people add salt to a dish because they think it tastes flat, what it really needs is an acid like lemon juice or vinegar,” said user Vexvertigo.
No, Really. Cook With Acid
“Salt, pepper and acid will brighten up almost any dish. If an otherwise wonderful dish is just… missing something, add salt, pepper and lemon juice, then reassess,” said user LymphomaThr0waway.
Control Yourself in the Kitchen
“You can always add, but you cannot take away,” said user El_Duende666.
Chefs Put Safety First
“Tell people you’re behind them when cooking is involved,” said user ToddFatherXCII.
Don’t Rely on a Single Recipe
“If you want to try to make something you had at a restaurant and google ‘chicken alla whatever’, don’t just randomly pick one of the results to try. Read a few of them and cook the one that comes closest to being the average of all the others. Way too many internet recipes aren’t actually tested by their authors, and professionals are actually worse than amateurs about it—they’re used to eyeballing measurements because they know what the right amount looks like and when they write it down it’s all guesswork,” offered user Howlingfrog.
