How to Become a Grill Master
At the most basic level, grilling means cooking food over a hot flame. There is a huge range of grills available, from a modest $20 charcoal grill to a built-in $15,000 gas grill, but the essentials never change. Once you learn the proper way, it doesn't matter what type of grill you use.
Basic Grilling Guide
- These basics will help you learn how to grill. Remember to always follow a few rules:
Keep your grill grate clean to prevent sticking.
Give yourself plenty of time to prepare and heat up the grill before cooking.
Always keep an eye on what you’re grilling.
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How to Keep Kids Safe in the Kitchen
We’ve been teaching kids ages 5 to 16 in our test kitchen for more than 7 years now to help us test recipes for our kid’s classes. It’s been fascinating to watch them interact with written recipes and try their hands at new cooking techniques. Of course, there have been many surprises along the way, including the fact that many of these children had never cracked an egg before entering our test kitchen and most had never touched raw meat.
Why? In many cases, it was because those activities come with a certain amount of risk or danger.
At SCC, we believe safety in the kitchen is about teaching kids to reduce risk—not avoid it. How are kids going to learn to make meatballs, for example, if they don’t get to crack eggs and handle ground meat? (We also believe that everyone should make meatballs!) With that in mind, here are some ideas and tools that can help you teach kids good safety habits in the kitchen.
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How to Be a Good Neighbor During Covid 19
My neighbors are self-quarantining after returning from a trip abroad. Here's how I'm planning to help.
When my family and I moved into our new house a few years ago, we hoped to become friends with our next-door neighbors. Fortunately, our neighbors have exceeded our expectations. We carry in each other’s packages. We take turns checking on each other’s dogs. They bring down the extra veggies in their CSA and we bring up extra food that we cook.
Now we’re facing an unexpected tricky situation: They are returning from Spain tomorrow and have to self-quarantine for 14 days. So many people find themselves in this position right now: They’re returning from vacations, hunkering down to protect their health or the health of their loved ones, or simply trying to practice social distancing. We’re lucky enough to find ourselves in the last category—taking things very seriously, but able and willing to pitch in for friends in need.
Here are the ways that we’re planning to help our neighbors. No two groups will want or need the exact same thing, but I hope this list sparks an idea that will benefit you and your community.
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Kitchen Tasks You Can do During Lockdown
Being home is more relaxing when things are tidy and organized. For me, that starts in the kitchen.
These days we’re finding ourselves spending more time at home, maybe alone, feeling restless and trying to figure out how to best utilize these moments. If you’re like me, you have a running list of things that have needed to be done for a while but you haven’t really had the time. Some of these tasks are on a continuum, like sorting through and swapping out seasonal clothes. While others, like organizing your freezer, usually only happen when you’re assessing space or food needs before a special occasion, like a holiday or family gathering.
Whatever the case may be, being home is certainly more relaxing when things are tidy and organized. And for me, this starts in the kitchen. When I feel inspired to cook I want to know that everything in my kitchen is ready for action. These are some ways any home cook can organize their kitchen with their unexpected extra time—and achieve some moments of zen in the process.
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Cooking Skills You Should Practice During Your Time at Home
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Make the most
of your free time by honing new skills. By now you’ve explored, cleaned, and organized every room in your home, so it’s probably time to set some personal-improvement goals. Now is the time to hone your kitchen skills.
My husband and I are brushing up on lots of skills that have gone dormant during our normally jam-packed days, and we’re finding solace in some of these more repetitive tasks. So far, the highlights have been making fresh pasta, baking bread, and cooking with our sons.
If you're interested in using this time at home to improve your skills in the kitchen, this list is for you. Whether you’re just learning to cook or have been whipping up masterpieces for years, these handy, science-based skills will translate across many different recipes and keep you cooking long after things get back to normal.
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