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Fixing Common Cooking Mistakes

  1. Bread is too soft to slice: Freeze it and slice it frozen.
  2. Bread Stale: Sprinkle it with a small amount of water, put it in foil, and bake in an oven at moderate heat for about ten minutes.
  3. Cake Stuck to Pan: Let it sit until it is a little cooler, and then try again. If it’s already cold, reheat for a minute or two.
  4. Cheese tough or rubbery after cooking: Blend in a blender or food processor at low speed for a minute or two, then cook slowly.
  5. Coffee or broth cloudy: add eggshells.
  6. Coffee overcooked: Add a pinch of salt
  7. Dough is lumpy: Add more liquid and pound the dough thoroughly.
  8. Dough won’t rise: Put the bowl of dough in a warmer place – in an oven, for instance, with a pilot light (do not turn the oven on). You could also mix a bit more yeast in ¼-cup warm water and knead into dough.
  9. Dough won’t shape: Let it rest for 15 minutes.
  10. Eggs crack when cooking: Put in 1 teaspoonful of salt and a bit of lemon or vinegar into the water to keep whites from oozing out of the shell.
  11. Egg whites won’t whip: Add a bit of baking soda or salt.
  12. Fudge hard: Add a tablespoon of milk and 2-3 tablespoonfuls of corn syrup and beat, then pour. Put in an airtight container for 24 hours.
  13. Gelatin stuck in mold: Dip the mold in hot water, but not so the gelatin is touched by the water, for just a few seconds. Put the mold on a plate, turn it upside down and shake.
  14. Gravy gray: Add red currant jelly, soy sauce, a bit of sherry, meat extract, or 1 teaspoon instant coffee.
  15. Gravy lumpy: Beat it with eggbeater or wire whisk. Strain it.
  16. Gravy salty: Make more. Sometimes adding a bit of brown sugar helps. Cook small pieces of potato into the gravy.
  17. Ham salty: Soak slices in milk for 15 minutes to a half-hour. Wash off.
  18. Icing sugared: Add a bit of vinegar and keep cooking.
  19. Lemon hard: Heat it for 5 minutes in boiling water or for 15 seconds in a microwave on HIGH, then try juicing it.
  20. Meat burned: Cut off burned parts, cube and sauce the rest. Serve over pasta.
  21. Pasta stuck together: Put back in boiling water with a tablespoon or so of oil in it.
  22. Pie dough burning on edge: Cover edge with aluminum foil.
  23. Popcorn won’t pop: Soak corn in water for 5 minutes, dry off and try again. For very recalcitrant corn, freeze overnight and pop while frozen.
  24. Rice burned: Get it off the flame, then put a piece of bread on top of it, cover for 5 minutes.
  25. Scummy stock: Add leek tops and tomato peels, which absorb the scum.
  26. Soup too salty: Slice in potato, simmer until potato turns translucent, then lift potato out.
  27. Stew meat tough: if you haven’t had the time to let the stew continue cooking under gentle heat, add a few tomatoes or a teaspoon of sugar to tenderize it.
  28. Vegetable old: To pep them up, add a pinch or two of sugar and a little salt to the cooking water.
  29. Vegetables overcooked: Puree them. Or make a cream soup of them Or put them in an oven-safe dish, cover them with bread crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese, and broil for a couple of minutes.
  30. Vegetables too salty: Pour the water out, rinse them off, and return them to the stove in new water. If you are already done, wash in hot water.
  31. Whipping cream won’t whip: chill everything (bowl, cream, beaters) and try again. If that fails, add an unbeaten egg white or 3-4 drops of lemon juice and whip as hard as you can.

Source by Kiya Sama