Does knowing some scientific methods improve our cooking?

When you search for some recipe online or in your own hard cover recipe book, you find out the format of the recipe much like that of a science experiment. Ingredients required, measurements of the ingredients, what to add first, what to add last, and the step by step instructions. Let’s admit it, cooking sometimes get as difficult us Titration itself. Especially when it comes to getting the desired result.

So yes, if you want to be a pro in kitchen, learning some science may help you loads. Let’s see how:

• The science of measurements is the first and foremost thing that chefs (and other moms as well) suggest us to learn if we want our cooking experiment to be successful. You need to be smart enough to interpret and change the measurement of the ingredients according to the quantity of the dish. For this you may use apparatus like measuring cup, spoon, and a timer or stopwatch to be perfect with timing.

• You also need to know how much heat energy does a particular substance needs to be given, and the repercussions of frying, roasting, deep frying, and baking a particular substance. Being wrong in calculations here may end up in a disaster.

• One cooking hack that chefs recommend is to add the ground spices in the sautéed onion instead of in the liquid. Adding the spices before adding water helps unlocking the fat soluble flavors in them which is not possible when they are dissolved in water.

• One more hack is never to miss the salt while marinating the meat. It’s salt that makes your meat tender.

• You may also learn about various cooking techniques and the science behind them. Like roasting, grilling, etc. are dry cooking techniques needing high temperatures, while poaching and boiling are the techniques that require liquids to cook.

So cooking is all about having a scientific sense of measurements, heat energy usage, and different techniques of treating substances. Once you achieve this sense, you’ll be serving all your dishes with a Eureka feeling.

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