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    Help me make my first Japanese curry dish.

    I've been all over the internet lately watching Japanese curry videos and recipes and every single one of them is different. So I'm overwhelmed. I guess curry is a creative dish that you build upon it. I would like to discuss the basics of a curry dish as well as the technical stuff of cooking...
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    What do you think is the most challenging thing in cooking?

    The things that I find challenging while cooking are sauces and spices combinations. Even though you can follow recipes you can really mess up the flavor when using spices, something I always do when I'm not following a recipe letter by letter. I also work in a Hotel kitchen (not as a cook)...
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    Recipe for 10kg crepe?

    Hello. I'm working in a hotel Kitchen and only for tomorrow I don't have the ready crepe powder that I usually have to make crepes and I must make my own using ingredients. I know how to make a 0,5kg crepe in my house but I don't know what analogies to choose for a 10kg recipe. I've noticed...
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    Liters vs Grams in Confectionery?

    I'm an engineering student working part-time in a hotel kitchen. Recently I had a disagreement with the Chef who told me that liters are the same as kilograms and anything I can measure in liters I can measure with a scale. He put me in charge of making crepe and waffle mixtures and he just...
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    Some advice for a new kitchen worker?

    Today I started working at a 5-star Hotel and I'm responsible for making the preparations and serving the customers for a small pool restaurant that serves crepes, waffles, hotdogs, toasts, cold sandwiches, ice cream, and popcorn. I had no experience at all, just home cooking and the Chef just...
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    My Greek Style Ramen Was Undrinkable! Why?

    I made the noodles myself (even that I over-boiled them a little they were still good!!!) but the problem was in the vegetable broth that I made. I followed a recipe of a Greek Chef who makes YouTube videos about making Asian food with ingredients you can find in Greece. I used the following...
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    How much flour and water for 1 meal noodles?

    I want to try to make noodles tomorrow for breakfast but I'm not sure how much water and flour should I use. When it comes to cooking, I have two weaknesses. Desserts and dough recipes. Though in the past I tried making pizza dough and I learned a few things like one cup of water is actually too...
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    Making Asian fried rice. Review my plan!

    I have previously discussed here this recipe but now it's the first time that I have all the ingredients! The food that I'm trying to do is Fried rice with veggies and eggs. Ingredients: 1) A half teacup of rice (water in triple the amount of the rice). 2) 1 carrot 3) 1 Potato 4) Half onion...
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    Frying Vegetables: Why they put the onions first?

    I have a couple of questions. I'm making some Asian foods lately (most of them involve fried vegetables) and everybody on YouTube is frying the dry onions first. 1) By making that, I noticed that the onions are actually cooking faster for example than the carrots and I'm ending up burning...
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    Pizza cooked for an hour and still dough is undercooked!

    Hello. I cook for years but I never made anything using dough like a pizza or bread. Trying a few times, I found out I'm completely clueless and bad. I tried making bread, and it ended up being undercooked in the inside and ashes in the outside... Now I tried to make pizza. Guess what...
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    ISO a nice cheap pack of knives for home.

    Hello, I'm looking for a cheap pack of knifes for home usage but I also want them to be quite professional (I like playing chef at home ?). Which material do they use to make good knifes? How many different knifes do I need for every situation? Please point me to the right direction.
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    Omelet Overcooked!

    Hello! I tried to make this omelette https://youtu.be/e8zc_DRv6cU but I overcooked it to the bottom. I used very very low heat ( electrical not gas) and I cooked it about to 30 seconds. I don't know what I did wrong, usually when I make an ordinary omelette it takes at least 1 minute and more...
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