How to Cook Without a Recipe

Show off your confidence in the kitchen by cooking without a recipe! Have you ever felt stuck inside a recipe wishing you knew how to just 'throw dinner together'?

Stop feeling stuck in the confines of a recipe and learn how to cook without using any recipes at all! We share 4 steps you can take to free yourself from following a recipe for every meal you cook.

 
 

Step 1: Create Your Favorite Foods Inventory

  • First you have to understand your flavor and texture preferences

  • These preference create the end goal that we’re trying to get the meal to.

  • This inventory will help answer your questions quicky and with confidence


Step 2: Understand what you can change

  • Get curious about food science and how ingredients interact with each other

  • Don’t change the mixing methods in baking recipes

  • Avoid creating any food safety concerns by thoughtfully planning your prep steps

  • Substitute ingredients with confidence


Step 3: Get familiar with common cooking methods

Step 4: Taste as you go, and taste again, and again!

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