Mega List of Common Cooking Mistakes and How to Overcome Them
Photo: Oxmoor House Story by Ann Taylor Pittman and Tim Cebula
Our Most Common Cooking Mistakes
Every cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not “caramelized” fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake made by one of our editors. We did not have to look much farther than our staff―and their encounters with readers, friends, and relatives―to compile a list of 25 common, avoidable culinary boo-boos.
The creative cook can often cook her way out of a kitchen error, but
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