The Most Common Cooking Mistakes
Learn how to avoid these common mistakes for success every time.
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Story by Ann Taylor Pittman, Tim Cebula, and Cooking Light Staff
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Our Most Common Cooking Mistakes
Every cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not "caramelized"
fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake made by one of our editors. We did not
have to look much farther than our staff―and their encounters with readers, friends, and relatives―to compile a list of common,
avoidable culinary boo-boos.
The creative cook can often cook her way out of a kitchen error, but the smart cook aims to prevent such creativity from being
necessary. Here are over 40 ways to be smarter every time.
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