Does Cooking Always Have To Take So Long?
Lots of people hate cooking, they think it is a waste of their life to spend so long cooking something you will just eat in 5 minutes anyway, and they think it is difficult and complicated to cook decent meals. I have to admit that I think fancy meals are a waste of time too, you slave away for an hour or two in the kitchen for a meal which is eaten in no time, however you don’t need to cook fancy meals all the time.
Once you know how to cook then you can whip up quick meals that are both tasty and a lot healthier than most of the ready meals that you buy from the shops. It isn’t the carbohydrates like chips that make a meal, although they should be there, or the vegetables, it is the meat which makes it tasty, preferably with a sauce too.
Below you will find some tips to help you create tasty meals even quicker:
Use premade sauces – A good sauce can make or break a meal, if you get the sauce right then the rest can be only mediocre and it will still taste amazing, so make sure you get this right. The biggest problem with sauces though is that if you make them yourself then they take ages and are very easy to mess up. That is why I always recommend you just buy the sauce from a shop, either the stuff in a jar or you can buy the packet sauce that you still have to add milk and butter to etc, but either way it is far easier than doing it yourself.
You don’t need to use fancy cuts of meat – People who buy those really small and expensive cuts of meat, or the ones cured in a special way etc, are trying to make their meal seem posher. The problem with them though is that often you can’t tell the difference in the taste anyway, and they are usually far harder to cook too. So forget about them and just get the best kind of regular meat you can, like an organic chicken breast, it’ll taste gorgeous.
Pay for some good pans to use – Having the right equipment always makes things easier and this is expecially true with cooking. Most people think that pretty much all cookware is the same so you can just grab the cheapest item in the shop, but cheap cookware has just a regular stainless steel bottom which doesn’t heat well. So you will find that whatever you are trying to cook will bur in some places and be undercooked in other due to hot spots while you cook.
You don’t need to pay much though, one of the best cast iron cookware sets (the Lodge Logic set) I’ve seen costs between $100 and $150 depending on where you buy it from. If you prefer a more traditional stainless steel cookware set then you are going to have to pay more, but then you can get a 12 piece set from Amazon for only $200 or so, making it probably cheaper than the cast iron one.
Those three tips should have you well on your way to making delicious meals even quicker and easier.
