Keys to good cooking

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• dagw · Nov 5, 2015 · Recommends

  …interested in quick and helpful cooking tips and less interested in the background history, anthropology and science that On Food and Cooking covers, you really should take a look at McGee's other book Keys to Good Cooking. It is a collection of useful techniques and tips broken down by ingredient. Or to put it in HN terms. If On Food and Cooking as comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of computer science, then Keys…

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• antognini · Aug 13, 2016 · Recommends

  …generally work well together. But maybe the best thing about the book is just the writing. It's hard not to read it and not start to appreciate food. If you're strictly interested in techniques, I like Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee. If you're brave, you can read through his magnum opus, On Food and Cooking, which goes through all the science. Keys to Good Cooking is sort of the cliffs notes version and just tells…

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• antognini · Jun 17, 2017 · Recommends

  It's not a website, but there's a great book about cooking called Keys to Good Cooking by Harold McGee. (It's not really a cookbook because there aren't any recipes in it.) Each chapter begins with a section on food safety for that particular category.

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• antognini · Jul 14, 2021 · Recommends

  McGee's On Food and Cooking is a wonderful book, but I'm not sure I'd call it accessible. :) For beginners I'd instead recommend his book Keys to Good Cooking. It takes all the information in On Food and Cooking and distills it down to the practical lessons a cook will need to improve their cooking.

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• bambax · Oct 17, 2016 · Critical

  …safety in a manner that I'm not sure exist in other cultures. Do statistics exist of bacterial outbreaks per country, is it actually worse in the US than elsewhere? Last year I bought Harold Mcgee's "Keys to good cooking" but couldn't go through it as all he talks about isn't "cooking" but telling you all the manners in which food is going to kill you. (Ironically, in the parts I did read he explains that his own father…

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• antognini · Dec 9, 2015 · Mentions

  …Royal Society of Chemistry released a guide to make the perfect cup of tea: http://www.academiaobscura.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RS... They recommend using boiling water as well. Harold McGee's Keys to Good Cooking recommends water just off the boil for black tea, but cooler water for oolong and green teas.

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