In order to preserve all the beneficial substances and vitamins in food, it still needs to be prepared correctly! We all know that it is better to eat vegetables and fruits fresh, and it is better to boil meat than to fry it. In addition, during heat treatment, vitamins are destroyed, and proteins are absorbed better. Then, which cooking method is the best? In this article you will find answers to this and many other questions about cooking methods. After all, food should be beneficial!
By the way, you can always order healthy food from the restaurant.
What determines the final taste of a dish?
The cooking conditions of the dish determine whether the nutrients and vitamins will be retained in it. For example, during heat treatment, vitamin C is destroyed.
For example, if your body lacks vitamin C, it is better not to cook green peas, but to eat them in their natural form. After all, when boiling it, vitamin C is almost completely destroyed. If your body needs vegetable protein, then it is better to boil the peas. After all, heat treatment increases the content of vegetable protein in legumes.
A moment of history
Cooking is not just the process of cooking, but also a useful hobby, a unique opportunity to communicate with friends or like-minded people, an area that is developing along with programming, so you may not have time to learn all its subtleties even in a lifetime.
It is the kinesthetic sensations, interactivity and variety in cooking that attract many people. Cooking courses certainly meet all the expectations of such enthusiasts.
In the West, they became popular entertainment and a way of organizing leisure time in the middle of the twentieth century. Television shows, live master classes from world-famous chefs, series of books with recipes for every taste and budget, schools teaching the skills of cooking dishes from different countries - all this was familiar to Americans and Europeans long before anything... something similar arose in the post-Soviet space.
Discoverers
Cooking courses first appeared in Russia in the 90s of the last century, when the famous English chef and restaurateur Jamie Oliver once again came to Moscow with the goal of popularizing a healthy lifestyle and home-cooked food.
After that, he visited the capital more than once, organized master classes, gave interviews, presented his books with recipes and even opened a restaurant. His original idea was picked up by Russian entrepreneurs and chefs, thanks to which in large and small cities of the country you can easily find culinary courses and learn how to cook.
Heat treatment of products
Those on a diet need to choose the method of cooking especially carefully. After all, the calorie content of the dish depends on the method of preparation. For example, a boiled egg contains fewer calories than a fried one. Legumes are well absorbed after cooking or steaming. But most foods lose almost all their vitamins when cooked.
It is also very important to consider the cooking time of the product. If you cook food correctly, taking into account the cooking time, you can preserve all the necessary microelements and vitamins in the dish.
How to learn to cook deliciously?
At first we sit behind our parents' backs, then, starting to live separately, we make do with yoghurts and sandwiches. But everything changes when he appears in our life - the only and beloved one, the question arises, how to learn how to cook food correctly and tasty? Immediately they start calling friends and relatives with complaints: “I want to quickly learn how to cook deliciously, but I don’t know how,” my loved one wants to eat. If this is your situation and you need to learn how to cook from scratch, then the following tips should help you.
How to learn to cook delicious food?
- Wanting to learn how to cook well, we choose recipes for the most delicious dishes possible, but they are often very difficult to prepare. You shouldn’t do this, there are a lot of simple dishes that are great for your first experiments. And your beloved does not expect any masterpieces from you, at least at first. It’s better to learn how to do something simple well than to serve up a fancy dish with overcooked onions, half-raw meat and other kitchen troubles.
- Don’t be embarrassed to look in cookbooks for recipes for even the simplest dishes; you may find a few tricks there to make the dish more delicious. By the way, you can turn to relatives and friends for similar advice, it will even be better. If the choice fell on cookbooks, choose those that provide step-by-step instructions, preferably with photographs.
- In order for everything to turn out as in the recipe, quality products are required. Well, think for yourself what can happen from expired (spoiled) products? If you have the opportunity to try a product before purchasing, you should definitely do so - this way you can choose what you like. But beware of shopping at spontaneous markets - the products there do not undergo any testing, and therefore you risk getting poisoned. As for water, do not rush to cook with the water that flows from the tap - it can ruin any dish. It is better to pass the water through a filter or take special drinking water.
- Also, to prepare delicious dishes you will need good dishes and kitchen appliances. Not every professional can handle cooking in an old aluminum saucepan or frying pan without a non-stick coating. You also need knives made of good steel - you can’t chop much with a dull knife. If we talk about kitchen appliances, then there is no need to chase all the cutting-edge new products. A couple of devices will be enough to make your life easier. If there is a microwave oven among this pair, then remember that special utensils are required for cooking in it.
- Watching how professionals cook, it is not often possible to see that they pay attention to the cooking time of individual components of the dish. But at first you will have to do this often, so it is better to hang a clock in the kitchen so as not to run to another room to see how many minutes are left to fry this piece of meat. Also, at first, it is not recommended to leave the kitchen while cooking. Because according to the law of meanness, as soon as the hostess stepped into another room, the soup began to run away, the potatoes began to boil, and the fish began to burn. And if the recipe says that you need to stir continuously, then do so until you learn how to cook on your own, follow everything specified in the recipe strictly - the time for experimentation will come a little later. And it would be a good idea to try what you are cooking - this will make it easier to decide on the amount of salt, sugar and spices.
- We learn to cook deliciously, but we also don’t forget about our own pleasure. Start with the dishes that you enjoy cooking the most. Maybe this is your favorite soup from childhood or what your loved one likes most.
- Learn to decorate a dish beautifully, don’t waste time putting the salad into a salad bowl and decorating it. You can make the most common dish special by preparing an interesting sauce. In general, fantasize and amaze your loved one and guests with your culinary talents.
Drying food
It is known that when dried, products also lose their beneficial substances. But this is not always true. For example, some fruits and vegetables are best eaten dried. When apples, bananas, grapes and plums are dried, a lot of sugar is lost. Thus they become dietary products. And dried tomatoes turn into an exquisite spice - a storehouse of taste and aroma!
It has long been established that properly prepared food is the key to good health.
How should you dry food?
- Firstly, do not heat them, but dry them in a natural environment.
- Secondly, store food in a dark place and without access to oxygen.
How to choose and cook mushrooms correctly
Every year in Russia, about a thousand victims of mushroom poisoning are registered, about 30 cases end in death.
Komiinform publishes recommendations from Rospotrebnadzor that will help avoid poisoning.
The most severe cases of mushroom poisoning are suffered by people with poor health and children. The child’s body does not yet have the necessary amount of enzymes to digest them. That is why it is not recommended to feed any mushrooms to children under 14 years of age.
According to Rospotrebnadzor, cases of mushroom poisoning are increasingly occurring among children. Usually, during walks, due to the carelessness of adults and the carelessness of children, the raw mushroom enters the child’s body.
Rospotrebnadzor reminds that not only children, but also adults can be poisoned by mushrooms. To avoid unpleasant consequences, it is important to take precautions.
Why food poisoning is possible
Most often, food poisoning with mushrooms is associated with a lack of information about mushrooms: people collect unfamiliar or false mushrooms in places where they accumulate heavy metal salts, toxic chemicals - near roads, in city parks; in addition, edible mushrooms can also be toxic during dry periods years or after the mushroom collection site has been treated with pesticides or pesticides to control insects and pests. And, most importantly, not everyone knows how to properly cook mushrooms.
Mushrooms are a difficult-to-digest product; they contain a lot of mushroom fiber - chitin, which is not only indigestible, but also makes it difficult for digestive juices to access digestible substances. Therefore, mushroom dishes are recommended for absolutely healthy people who do not suffer from diseases of the digestive tract. Before cooking, it is recommended to first boil all the mushrooms for 10 minutes, drain the broth, rinse the boiled mushrooms and then cook them as usual. Pre-boiling mushrooms will help to significantly reduce the content of toxic elements in them.
Keep an eye on the kids
It is important to prevent situations where a child might eat a raw mushroom. To do this, you need to inspect the place where the child will be walking in advance, before the walk. You also need to inspect the territory of nurseries and kindergartens, schools and other institutions.
In addition, it is necessary to closely monitor children while walking, especially in parks, squares, playgrounds and in the forest.
Mushroom Picker Rules
To prevent mushroom poisoning, it is important to follow these rules:
- If you don’t know, don’t take it! Collect only familiar types of mushrooms.
— Collect mushrooms away from roads, highways, outside populated areas, in ecologically clean areas.
— Collect mushrooms in wicker baskets - this way they will stay fresh longer.
— Cut off each mushroom with its stem intact.
— All mushrooms brought home on the same day must be sorted, sorted by type and carefully reviewed again. Throw away all wormy, overripe, legless, flabby mushrooms, as well as inedible and poisonous ones, if you collect them by mistake.
— Don’t forget that mushrooms are protein, and any protein spoils very quickly. Therefore, mushrooms must be cooked on the day of collection, having previously sorted them by type, if you are not preparing assorted mushrooms or mushroom caviar.
To avoid mushroom poisoning, remember not to:
— Collecting mushrooms in buckets, plastic bags or bags - this leads to rapid spoilage and damage to the stems of the mushrooms, which will significantly complicate subsequent sorting and sorting and can lead to poisonous mushrooms getting into the dish;
— Collect old, overgrown, wormy and unknown mushrooms;
— Try mushrooms during picking;
— Subject mushrooms to cooking a day or more after collection;
— Marinate or pickle mushrooms in galvanized dishes and glazed clay dishes;
— Keeping mushrooms warm is a perishable product.
Buying Tips
— If you buy already collected mushrooms, remember that you cannot buy dried, salted, pickled and canned mushrooms from random persons and places of unauthorized trade.
— It is not recommended to buy fresh or dried mushrooms in spontaneous trading places or to buy canned mushrooms in jars with rolled-up lids, prepared at home.
— Non-industrial mushrooms are allowed for sale at markets and fairs only after an examination, which is carried out to control the quality of products going on sale. The examination determines the quality of mushrooms, their integrity, and radionuclide content. Only after the examination is carried out, permission to sell the product is issued.
— If you buy already collected mushrooms in stores and supermarkets, carefully examine the packaging with mushrooms; they should not be rotten or spoiled. Do not buy mushrooms if the integrity of the packaging is damaged or the packaging is dirty. Also, do not buy mushrooms if the packaging does not have a label, inserts, or any information about the product at all.
Harvesting mushrooms
In the process of harvesting mushrooms, you must remember that there is a list of edible mushrooms. Of the large group of edible mushrooms, only the white mushroom, the real milk mushroom and the common saffron milk cap are definitely edible mushrooms. Only these mushrooms can be used to prepare mushroom dishes without prior boiling.
The Millionaire's Long Journey
It is difficult to say how soon the investment will pay off and increase without having accurate calculations and deciding on all the components of the business idea. Profits are influenced by the specifics of the courses, location, professionalism of teachers, and marketing moves. After all the preparations, plan a clear lesson plan.
There should be no more than 10 people in the group so that the cook has time to pay attention to everyone and answer their questions. Create a class schedule that is as convenient as possible for your students. Lessons are held in both morning and evening sessions. The duration of one lesson for learning new material and practice is on average 3 hours.
There may be 3-4 such meetings per week. You determine their cost yourself, taking into account the costs and solvency of the students. VIP clients can be offered individual lessons, and for an additional fee, a chef-teacher can be sent to their home.
Important! If you plan costs clearly and competently and attract as many people as possible, then ideally in 3-4 months your first stable income will appear. For a larger city this amount is at least 100,000 rubles, for a small city - 40,000 rubles.
Promotion is a delicate matter
In the modern world, there are dozens of ways to popularize your business. Which one to use is your choice. Promotion through social networks is now considered the fastest and most effective, because not even a single newspaper in the world can boast as many views as posts on Instagram or Facebook.
No less effective is contextual advertising, which often attracts the attention of search engine users. To familiarize those interested in culinary courses in detail, you can create a website where you can permanently and freely post any information in the future. Large banners, leaflets and flyers are the easiest and most cost-effective way to promote.
A more expensive, but less troublesome option is to sign an agreement with an advertising agency that will develop and implement a scheme to popularize your business.
Attention! Promotion will be successful if you choose the right method to influence the target audience. It’s stupid to spend money on advertising on social networks if cooking classes are designed for older people. In this case, it is better to use outdoor advertising and printing.
