Bar Graph, Charts and Tables
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I'm partial to the bar graph because it spares so many words. Any one of these graphs, images or charts would be useful to run off and tape inside a cabinet door in your test kitchen. Here's one on how to cook fish. A really useful chart for shopping is this list of spices with a column for you to check against your supply before going to the grocers.
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Here's a handy one. A timetable for cooking roast beef. Pay close attention to the bullet points under the bar charts on that page for a perfect roast beef every time.
By the way, here is an outline to help you plan for your next dinner party and a blank worksheet for you to use as well.
The smoking points of oil gives you some idea of which oil to use for which purpose. Here's a useful diagram comparing saturated v. unsaturated fats and how they act in your arteries later. The oils to the left will not take too much heat without smoking or even catching fire. The ones to the right will take higher temperatures. Vegetable oil is a really good that for your highest cooking temperature needs. Olive oil generally does very well with stir fries. In general, the lighter the oil -- just look at the color, the higher the temperature can take.
If you've never tried it, you might want to buy some ghee. Ghee is widely used in Indian cooking and the flavor is excellent. It does not readily burn because all the milk solids have been removed. In fact, it's a lot like clarified butter without the aggravation. It keeps very well in the refrigerator.
This chart that shows marinating times for different proteins is a general guide that illustrates that the more delicate the flesh of the protein, the less time it will take to marinade. In fact, ceviche is a Peruvian dish in which the fish is "cooked" in lime or lemon juice without ever going near the heat.
If you have any ideas for charts, tables or pretty much any other graphs and charts that have to do with cooking, I'd be delighted to see if I can construct it for Formula Easy Recipes. We are here to make life easier for the home cook.
Free yourself from the tyranny of the cookbook by keeping these rules of thumb near your cooking area. By and by there will be dozens of these bar graphs to help you develop your intuition for cooking or pie charts and even the odd table to give you the necessary shortcuts to make the home cook's job less of a hassle.
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