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[quote=Anonymous]You should get some of the America's Test Kitchen cookbooks and/or DVD's of the show. They show not only how to do something, but why you do something. I've found that once I know why a technique is used that it is easier to remember and also easier to apply those techniques at other times in other cooking because I know why you do that. E.g. why do you add cream of tartar to whipped egg whites (the acid keeps the whipped egg whites from separating and collapsing), or why when mixing dry and wet ingrediants into a stand mixer you add part wet, then part dry, then part wet, then part dry (it mixes the elements together without "pockets" or dry ingredients in little bubbles). I especially love the shows, but the cookbooks are helpful too.[/quote]
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