Cooking: Time Saving and Better Tasting Tips - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Hi, this is Judith Klinger from Aroma cuzzina, and we are going to talk about working in your kitchen, and how to work more quickly, safely and efficiently. One of the first things you need to do is always put things away in the same place. It sounds silly, but if you do not remember where you put that bowl, you are going to spend time uselessly looking for the bowl or whatever it is that you cannot find. Another thing, take care of your knives. Your knives are your friend, they are the best thing you have in the kitchen. You do not want to buy a set of knives, you want to go out and buy good knives and buy them as you need them. You need a big knife, go buy a big knife, you need a little pear of knife, go buy a little pear knife. The other thing is, do not store them in a drawer, you need to store them either in the wooden block or else store them on a magnetic strip, but if you put them in a drawer what happens is every time you open and close the drawer it nicks them and they get dull. Another kitchen tip is to use a mis en plus, a mis en what? It just means putting out all the things that you are going to need in a recipe and have them all prepped and ready. What happens then is that you will know if you are missing something or you cannot find something or your timing is off, everything is there and you are going to feel calmer and more efficient. Get used to using a mis en place. Another kitchen tip: clean up as you work, you do not want to finish making everything and then have a mountain of dirty dishes, it just ruins the whole effect. The other thing is that if you are cleaning up as you go, you will be able to see what you have got going on and it is safer, so please clean up as go because nothing is as amateur like a dirty kitchen.
