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Hi everyone. I'm a novice home cook and trying to find ways to practice making a roux. I've tried making a cheese sauce for Mac and Cheese, but I made a lot of mistakes. I used too much butter (3 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp flour); - the butter to flour ratio is 1 part butter and 1 part flour...

Well, when I unboxed the pan, I used the method by America's Test Kitchen to remove the bee's wax. This was with oil, salt and potato skins. Thanks for everyone contributing to the thread. Over the course of the week I'll apply 5 - 6 layers of thin oil coating.

Hi everyone I bought a DeBuyer Carbon Steel Pan (24cm) about 3 weeks ago. Since then, I seasoned it twice using the oven method - Coat pan with thin layer of flax seed oil, 1 hour upside down in hot oven, then leave 2 hours to cool in oven. After that, I started cooking with it a number of...

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Yeah I've realised that. I didn't grow up in a house where cooking was done often. So I'm basically starting from scratch. I'm one of those idiots who bought a basic knife set and cook food from the recipe suggestion on the packet of processed spices. Then adding my own ingredients in and...

Hi everyone! I'm André, a new cooking fanatic. I want to learn all there is to learn about cooking, baking, the history and science of it etc. I dislike recipe sites, recipe books etc that assumes that I don't burn my toast. I love books like: The Flavor Bible, Larousse and The Professional...