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I just saw this on another site. The article's from the March issue of Cooking Light. These all seem to be right on point. I just wish I could convince my husband of #17!

1.You don't taste as you go
2.You don't read the entire recipe before you start cooking
3. You make unwise substitutions in baking.
4. You boil when you should simmer.
5. You overheat chocolate.
6. You over-soften butter.
7. You overheat low-fat milk products.
8. You don’t know your oven’s quirks and idiosyncrasies.
9. You’re too casual about measuring ingredients.
10. You overcrowd the pan.
11. You mishandle egg whites.
12. You turn the food too often.
13. You don’t get the pan hot enough before you add the food.
14. You slice meat with the grain instead of against it.
15. You underbake cakes and breads.
16. You don’t use a meat thermometer.
17. Meat gets no chance to rest after cooking.
18. You try to rush the cooking of caramelized onions.
19. You overwork lower-fat dough.
20. You neglect the nuts you’re toasting.
21. You don’t shock vegetables when they’ve reached the desired texture.
22. You put all the salt in the marinade or breading.
23. You pop meat straight from the fridge into the oven or onto the grill.
24. You don’t know when to abandon ship and start over.
25. You use inferior ingredients.

Here's the link if you want to read what's written about each item...
http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101 ... 000064986/

Champagne,

I am 60 years old. When I was a new bride back in 1974, I was guilty of all the above. I'm thinking that each year of my married life, I knocked off a few more of these common cooking mistakes.

Now at 60, I am guilty of only #2: 2.You don't read the entire recipe before you start cooking

But to this, I attribute my mental state. I now tape the recipe to my kitchen cabinet door -- and cross of the ingredients and instructions as I go.

All in all, I have managed over the years to never have killed anyone I was cooking for. Praise the Lord.

Great list... thanks, Champagne.

Marlene

Marlene, as a new bride I was also guilty of each one. Wouldn't it have been nice if we had seen a similar list all those years ago!? I wonder how the list might be different in...say...30+ years from now.

Thank you for sharing this! I have been guilty of almost all of them Happily I have learned my lessons as I go-lol

This list is sooooo true! I know that they are mistakes and still make them.

Julie

This is so good that I forwarded it to Melinda. She said that she liked it and plans to use it on her show. In fact she did mention it briefly at the start of Saturdays show. She also warned me that if you print it out it is 30 pages long.