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Our Best Test Kitchen Tips to Master Your Home Cooking Skills

2 months ago Joyce J. Kent

Table of Contents

  • Baking Tips
  • 1. Cake Saver
  • 2. Pan Lining
  • 3. Meringue Keeper
  • 4. Flour Dusting
  • 5. Fresh Bread
  • Kitchen Tips
  • 6. Mise en Place
  • 7. Keep the Oven Closed
  • 8. Fresh Produce
  • 9. Egg Rescue
  • Tool Tips
  • 10. Better Butter
  • 11. Sticky Liquid Measuring
  • 12. Skillet Skills
  • 13. Roll It Out
  • 14. Coffee Frother Hack

With a century’s worth of testing recipes for Better Homes & Gardens® magazine, cookbooks, and countless other special publications, our Test Kitchen has more than a few tricks under its belt. With valuable knowledge on all things cooking and baking, the BHG Test Kitchen pros taught us the best way to hard-cook eggs, safe ways to dispose of cooking oil, last-minute baking substitutions, and so much more. As we celebrate 100 years, I sought to find the ultimate list of Test Kitchen tips from our seasoned culinary experts for home-cooking success. Go ahead and bookmark this page now—you’re going to reference these cooking tips often.

Baking Tips

Whether you’re trying to line a baking pan or not sure how to properly flour a surface, these are some great baking tips from the Test Kitchen to keep in mind.

1. Cake Saver

Cake a little dry? Brush it with a little flavored syrup (like the kind you put in your latte) or flavored liqueur, such as Grand Marnier or amaretto.

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2. Pan Lining

To quickly cut circles of waxed or parchment paper for lining pans, fold a large circle of paper into eighths. Place the point in the center of the pan and cut a semicircle along the perimeter of the pan. Unfold and flatten the paper—and you have a right-size circle of paper ready to go.

3. Meringue Keeper

Help prevent meringues from weeping by adding 1 teaspoon of cornstarch with the sugar when beating your eggs whites.

4. Flour Dusting

Fill a small fine-mesh sieve with 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour. Keep it handy as you knead, roll, and cut doughs for pastry, cookies, noodles, and more. This allows for a light, even dusting of flour without overflouring the dough—causing it to be dry and touch.

5. Fresh Bread

European-style yeast breads generally don’t last much beyond the day they’re baked because they contain no fats to stabilize them and keep them moist. Refresh a day-old loaf by spritzing it with water and warming it in a 375ºF oven for 8 to 10 minutes. It will once again have a crisp crust and soft, chewy interior. Eat the bread immediately for best results, and don’t use the trick on the same loaf more than once.

Kitchen Tips

The expert cooks in the Test Kitchen pick up a lot of cool tricks along the way. Add these helpful everyday cooking secrets to your daily routine.

6. Mise en Place

French for “put in place” or “gather,” mise en place is setting out all of your ingredients and equipment before beginning a recipe. This ensures you have everything you will need. Oh, and read through the entire recipe before you start.

7. Keep the Oven Closed

Avoid opening the oven door during baking and roasting. Each time you open the oven door, you can easily lose 50ºF to 100°F heat, which will prolong your baking time.

8. Fresh Produce

Knowing where to store produce is key to making them last (and taste fresher) longer. Store tomatoes at room temperature. Cool temperatures can cause them to become mealy. Once fully ripened, you can refrigerate them if you like eating cold tomatoes in salads, etc.

9. Egg Rescue

Oops! A piece of shell broke into the bowl of eggs. Instead of making a mess trying to get it out with your hands, use one half of a clean eggshell to scoop it out.

Tool Tips

Whether you don’t have a rolling pin or want a better way to make biscuits, these Test Kitchen tips will best use your kitchen tools.

10. Better Butter

If a recipe such as piecrust or biscuits calls for cutting-in butter, freeze it and use a cheese grater to shred it into the flour for the easiest results.

11. Sticky Liquid Measuring

Spray measuring cups/spoons with a little nonstick spray before measuring sticky or greasy ingredients (i.e. honey, corn syrup, or solid shortening). Watch and be amazed by the easy release into the bowl.

12. Skillet Skills

Always let your skillet heat up first. If you add the food before the skillet is hot, it will steam rather than brown, and it will still take the same amount of time to get hot and start cooking. It’s hot when a few drops of water sizzle and dance on the pan. Now add the oil and let it heat up (just a few more seconds). It’s hot when the reflection of the light shimmers. One exception: Add bacon to a cold skillet and put on the heat. Now it won’t curl up right away and will cook evenly as the skillet heats up.

13. Roll It Out

Find yourself without a rolling pin? If there’s a wine bottle around, use it to roll out any dough—biscuit, pizza, cookie, or piecrust. It cleans up easily when you’re done—and you can celebrate your genius with a toast.

14. Coffee Frother Hack

Utilize an electric coffee wand to make vinaigrettes. Place all ingredients except for the oil in a liquid measuring cup, slowly drizzle the oil in as the wand is on, and you’ll have a perfectly emulsified vinaigrette with minimal effort.

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