How To Reduce Stress During Meal Preparation - 4 Easy Tips

These basic kitchen base were successfully used in restaurants and commercial kitchens to create efficiency and can easily be applied to the local cuisine. The principle of mise en place (pronounced [Meez Ahn plahs]) is a French expression means "everything in place." This simple concept can turn harried, chaotic experience of cooking the meal preparation nirvana. Well, maybe that's stretching it a bit, but you get the gist.

1 Clean and organized kitchen work place After searching frantically for the right cooking spoon on a cluttered desktop to look like a dog chase its tail;. Very inefficient and very frustrating. Take time before you start preparing a meal to clean your counter. Put away any foreign things that had landed on the work station. If it is not necessary for this dish, get rid of it.

2 Read the recipe all the way through at least once before you start. It seems like a no-brainer, but it's tempting when you are short on time only to plunge right into cooking. Make sure you have enough time to complete all the steps before meals. If you need to prepare a sauce or dressing ahead of time before the main part of the meal is done? You can not know any of this until you have read the recipe. Do it now!

3 Make a list of ingredients in the recipe and make sure you have it all. What? You're ready to add cinnamon to the Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, but lo and behold you are in that key spice. Believe me when I say I know you do not have the key ingredient after you have already completed half of preparation really takes the wind out of sails to say the least. Organize all the ingredients of a prescription to your desktop.

4 Sharp knives. Nothing is more infuriating and messy than trying to cut a ripe tomato with a dull knife. Chopping onions with a dull knife can be hazardous to your zdravlje.Oštrim knife is much more effective, and contrary to popular opinion, much safer than a tool with a blunt blade.

The following tips can reduce stress and make meal preparation a lot of fun and peaceful experience. You'll enjoy the process and your family will be able to enjoy food more when you are upset, angry mess of the whole experience. Bon Appetit!