While there are a lot of great cooking skills and tips we’ve inherited from our parents and grandparents, there are some cooking habits passed on from generation to generation that are less than ideal. For instance, maybe your mom still incorrectly defrosts her sausages on the kitchen counter at room temperature. But there’s another even worse cooking habit you need to ditch right now: cooking by look and feel.
Yes, one of the reasons why grandma’s food was better than yours is that she knew how to cook using intuition. Maybe when the meat felt like the palm of her hand, she knew it was done. But not every nana was a great cook. If you ever wondered why turkey has a reputation for being dry or your family’s chicken turned out a little too pink, it could be because those cooks of yore were judging doneness by look and feel.
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