Lessons

How a technique works, what is happening in the pan, what goes wrong and why — and, for anything that decides whether food is safe, the authority it came from.

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Lessons

Reading, scaling and adapting a recipe.

How to read a recipe before you cook it Read it twice: once for what happens, once for when.
Scaling a recipe up or down doubling a recipe Quantities scale. Times, pans and seasoning do not.
Substituting an ingredient Ask what the ingredient is doing before you replace it.