People always do not have enough time: you need to have time for everything in the office and at home. Cooking takes up a large part of this time.
Therefore, busy people in every possible way try to speed up the process, dreaming of spending evenings not at the stove, but for another occupation.
At the same time, trying to accelerate, they make mistakes that lead to the opposite result.
1. Using too high a temperature
High temperature does not always mean quick cooking.
Cooking at high temperature allows you to speed up the process. Many people think so, because they use this method, and, alas, in most cases they are mistaken. High temperatures sometimes just make us believe that the food is ready when in fact it is not. You can not fry a chicken in a couple of minutes, even if it has a beautiful golden crust. If you cook chicken on high heat, it will become like rubber and lose its juiciness. Dishes that should be cooked at high temperature, not so much. These are steak, bone steak, zucchini and burgers.
2. Chaos in the workplace
Before you start cooking, it is worth putting the workplace in order.
If you run several times to the refrigerator and kitchen cabinet, then talking about the speed of cooking is ridiculous. Everything you need for a particular dish should be prepared in advance, starting from chopped vegetables and ending with all the necessary appliances. Be sure to check the ingredient list and make sure everything is in order before you start cooking. Or you can go even further and arrange the ingredients in the order in which you need them.
3. Choosing a recipe with lots of ingredients
Complex recipes are best left for the weekend - the preparation of such dishes can take too much time.
Sometimes, you found an interesting recipe on a culinary site or watched a video on the network in which some really complex dish was prepared easily and simply. You also want to try, go to the store, and then worry that you spent a lot of money on ingredients, some of which are sure to remain unused, and which you are unlikely to ever get out of the closet. If you want to cook dinner quickly, choose a dish with a maximum of four ingredients. This will be enough to feed the family quickly and tasty. Take away your ambitions and try something simpler, for example, an ordinary roast with the usual side dish. Sometimes you can cook ready-made dumplings.
4. Fear of seasonings, salt and oil
Salting the dish hastily, you can get completely tasteless food.
When using a small number of ingredients, do not forget to add the necessary seasonings. Sometimes in a hurry, people forget about it and get the output is not the dish that was mentioned in the recipe. Healthy fats, such as olive oil, can significantly improve the taste of a meal. With salt, another problem - most often in a hurry, people tend to oversalt food. And for some, it's just an unhealthy habit to salt food both when cooking and eating. This is very harmful, the amount of salt should be monitored carefully. Experienced chefs say that malnutrition is always better than oversalting.
When it comes to salt, we must remember that part of it we consume as part of the dishes we cook, and part (large, mind you) enters the body from the finished products that we eat every day, including bread, cheese, cold cuts, ready-made sauces and snacks. As for sophisticated sauces, they can easily be replaced by fresh herbs, spices and tomato paste.
5. Overflowing pot
Ingredients need to be added sequentially.
There is an unshakable rule: cooking should be carried out in stages. It's wrong when people put everything in the pot at once. For example, the soup made in this way may be similar to liquid porridge. And if you put meat, onions, carrots, potatoes in the pan at the same time, it is hardly possible to get a chic chop, since the pan is cooled from a large number of products. Everything has its time, and you need to add ingredients gradually. Then you can enjoy the best taste of each of them. For example, first fry the meat over high heat, then remove it, then cook the vegetables and add the meat back before serving.
6. Fear of modern devices
Modern kitchen appliances will help save time.
Today, there are many kitchen appliances that can do his work for a person. For example, an aerogrill with a delayed start, a steamer, the usual microwave oven, a food processor and many others. You can put a slow cook dish in the device, and by noon it will be ready. And a person will get free time that he can use for other purposes.
With the help of convenient can openers with a swivel handle, you can quickly open the tin can. There are electric knives, and not only canned, but also ordinary. The microwave will quickly defrost the food. The blender will crush the products, the mixer will mix them. The main thing is to keep up with the times, and not try to cook the old-fashioned way, spending a lot of time on it.
7. Perception of cooking as a routine
Cooking is a wonderful creative activity that can be considered as a hobby.
It is not easy to enjoy cooking when a child cries in the next room or guests should come in half an hour. But sometimes people perceive cooking as a tedious, routine activity, thereby depriving themselves of the pleasure of the process. Cooking is creativity. If you treat it that way, it will go faster. Making blanks that can be stored in the refrigerator, you can make your life easier and minimize the time for cooking. For example, cutting a fresh pumpkin into pieces, lightly frying and then freezing it, you get a wonderful semi-finished product. It is enough just to defrost the pumpkin and put it in a frying pan.
