Top 10 Cooking Mistakes Everyone Makes

Don't feel bad, everyone makes these cooking mistakes. For this list, we’ll be looking at the most common cooking blunders among amateur chefs. Our countdown includes cooking cold meat, overcrowding pan, ignoring the recipe, and more! Which cooking mistake do YOU always make? Let us know in the comments!

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[henri]

Even the mistakes of Friends are iconics and memorable

[andrewjones]

Overcooking & undercooking are the most common.

[tmbline]

One of my most dangerous mistakes was emptying hot oil into a plastic trashcan 🤣
Use glass containers yall

[julianaylor]

Read the label, if it says cook from frozen, then don't defrost it before cooking. If you don't do what the label says, the item will not cook properly, for example a cook from frozen pizza will be soggy, instead of crisp.
When cooking with oil it's actually safer to let the oil sizzle before you add the ingredients. With a wok it needs to be smoking.
Buy a cake probe if you bake a lot; it's a special rod that you put into the cooked item, to see if it's cooked through.
The best ovens are an electric convention oven, an electric fan oven, a rotisserie, a barbecue or a halogen oven. Most gas ovens unless they are very expensive or restaurant standard are not that good. If you have microwave, read the instructions and learn to use it as a useful cooking aid, rather than a device to heat up ready made items. For example cooking rice with boiled water in a microwaveable bowl is much better for you, than those rice pouches with processed ingredients.

[rockmanzeromodernday]

I would try not to constantly flip my meat over while cooking, or overdo it as well. Trying to find the perfect balance of taste...

[Aperto]

00:27 Overflipping Meat
01:21 Cooking Cold Meat
2:10 Boil
2:52 Oven Thermometer
3:46 Using Wrong Cooking Oil
4:37 Overcrowding Pan
5:26 Not Resting Cooked Meat
6:15 Cooking in a Cold Pan

[starofairdrie]

here are hints born of experience and/or drilled into me by my mother who majored in home economics during the 1950's:
1) baking is rarely forgiving while cooking can be.
2) liquid measuring cups are different than dry measuring cups - not much, but still...
2) Never overbeat eggs! (ever wonder why some homemade cookies are so hard? they've been overbeaten)
4) Follow the steps of the recipe in order - cooking involves chemical reactions and not following the way the ingredients are supposed to be added can effect the taste and texture of the final product.

[paulwalton]

I went to school in England and we made scotch eggs one day and I was being cheeky as usual whilst telling my teacher I made it in England so its an English egg. My teacher said its a scotch egg where ever you make it because they are cold, ginger and smelly. I now live in scottyland and I've told a few mates what my teacher said.

[StuJones-gnte]

I learned to cook on a pot bellied stove, so a lot of the things people say, like "simmer, " don't really mean much to me. On a pot bellied stove, you only have hot and off. In general, I use "high" and "off" on my stove.

When I bake things, my oven never takes as long as the recipe calls for, usually only about half as long, so I have keep watching. I never add salt to anything (bad experience making cookies a few years ago).

Back when I used to make canned soup for myself I would heat it to boiling the turn it off. Done.

Since I live alone now, I don't do much of the fancier cooking I used to do. Even so, I'm the best cook I know.

BTW, I generally believe recipes, with the occasional exception, are suggestions. I've found in the past that following exactly given recipe doesn't work well and (with unusual items) expensive. I don't need to go buy a lot of ingredients I'll only use once.

[dr.braxygilkeycruises]

With all this cooking, I hope everyone watches *Chef Boot Camp* on the Food Network that starts on Thursday, April 7th. I have a special connection to one of the contestants. 🤗

[donnadrane]

I once used baking soda instead of baking powder!

[shabankullolli]

Does being poor and not affording the right ingredients count?

[Unbreakable_ja]

watching this while cooking and making half these mistakes 😄

[sarahraistrick]

I have made 9 of these mistakes apart from not tasting the food as I do thag a lot. Maybe to much, as once A ate the entire dinner in just tasters!!!!😃😂

[larafantasy]

I am lucky my boyfriend is the one who is cooking at our home 😂

[jamalvargas]

Hell's Kitchen Is Still On Fox Jesus Christ Gordon Ramsay must have a deal with Fox Entertainment or Something similar to Jon Taffer from Bar Rescue on Spike TV/Paramount Network

[trinaq]

The most calories I've ever burned off was a pizza in Home Economics class! 🍕😂

[sarahramsey]

over or under heating also bad wanna cook it long enough then eat it but with cheese on top let it cool or you'll burn your mouth also tasting it while cooking you'll won't know exactly to put in seasoning but have an allergy or someone else does don't try to offer double dip also disgusting

[lizakolganova]

Who actually use recipes while cooking non-fancy, everyday food? It's so weird for me! I never use recipes and never mesure anything, and my meals are always perfectly tasty.

[minenoturs]

(enter meme)
im Sorry .. . WHAT?




who is EVERYone -raise EyeBrow- ??