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Kitchen Tips and Basics

If you're new to cooking or want to brush up on your skills, these kitchen tips and basics articles are for you!

Whether you want to learn how to cut an onion without crying, how to substitute cornflour or how to soften butter quickly,  - these posts have everything you need to boost your kitchen knowledge.

  • Made Easy: Cake Making Methods, Explained!

    Made Easy: Cake Making Methods, Explained!

  • THIS is How to Substitute Cornflour (UK)

    THIS is How to Substitute Cornflour (UK)

  • Best Crème Fraîche Substitutes - 8 Easy Swaps You Already Have!

    Best Crème Fraîche Substitutes - 8 Easy Swaps You Already Have!

  • A whole cauliflower on a chopping board with a knife

    ★★★★★ (5.0)
     10 mins
    How to Cook Cauliflower - 5 Different Easy Ways!

  • Someone putting a plate of cubed butter down next to flour, eggs and sugar.

    ★★★★★ (5.0)
     10 mins
    How to Soften Butter Quickly - 4 Different Ways!

  • Someone taking a tomato from a bowl

     5 mins
    How To Store Tomatoes (Should you refrigerate or not?)

  • Someone stirring baking powder into plain flour

    ★★★★★ (5.0)
     2 mins
    How to Make Self Raising Flour from Plain Flour

  • Someone forking couscous on a white plate

    ★★★★★ (5.0)
     12 mins
    How to Cook Couscous Perfectly (Never Stodgy, Always Fluffy!)

  • 20 Genius Kitchen Organisation Ideas

    20 Genius Kitchen Organisation Ideas

  • A bowl of steamed broccoli.

     5 mins
    How to Steam Broccoli

  • A bowl of red and green apples

    ★★★★ (4.0)
     30 secs
    How to Cut an Apple

  • Baking for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Measuring, Mixing, and Mastering Delicious Treats!

    Baking for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Measuring, Mixing, and Mastering Delicious Treats!

  • Midweek meal planning kit

    How to Plan 5 Midweek Meals in Less Than 10 Minutes

  • A jar of pickled onions with a fork inside on a white mottled background with a green linen napkin and cinnamon sticks

     30 mins
    How to Pickle Onions

  • A loose bottomed fluted tart tin lined with unbaked shortcrust pastry surrounded by pastry leaves, a pastry blender and some fabric.

    ★★★★ (4.4)
     1 hr 10 mins
    Easy Shortcrust Pastry Recipe

  • freshly cooked rice scattered with chopped coriander in the top bowl of a stack of 3 with a fork next to it

     17 mins
    How to Cook Rice Perfectly EVERY Time!

  •  2 mins The BEST Way To Cut Onion Without Crying!

     2 mins
    The BEST Way To Cut Onion Without Crying!

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