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Along with mouth watering recipes, many cookbooks and on line recipe sites provide helpful tips and cooking advice to save time, energy and clean up along the way. The internet provides a myriad of resources for both novice and professional cooks to draw valuable cooking advice from. There are a number of websites devoted specifically to cooking advice as well as list serves and message boards where cooks share helpful tips they have deemed a contributor to their own success. This cooking advice lends a unique perspective as it is gained through personal experiences of trial and error. Cooking advice not only means helpful hints to make your job easier, but includes pitfalls to avoid which may be detrimental to the overall success of your meal.

Alongside the internet of course, stand hundreds of cookbooks which also offer cooking advice. The advantage of a cook book stored in your kitchen is quick, direct reference when needed at your fingertips. Other types of media which may offer valuable cooking advice are magazines, talk show segments and cooking channels. Many people record their favorite cooking advice programs for later reference or may go online to obtain a recipe or transcript if they found the cooking advice helpful.

However, cooking advice mainly comes from word of mouth. Many cooks learned the majority of recipes and helpful hints from family members, friends and co-workers. In fact, passed down recipes and cooking advice may lend insight to the heritage or culture of your own family as well as a means of carrying on familial traditions. In addition to gaining valuable cooking advice, learning family cooking traditions may strengthen familial bonds as well as providing one on one time with loved one.

Irregardless of where one finds cooking advice, any professional chef will tell you cooking is an art that combines experimentation, an inquisitive palate and inevitably, some failure along the way. Most cooking advice is gained through the trial and error of others and can allow you to avoid pitfalls by duplicating others' mistakes.

Fire Prevention Cooking Advice

Cooking is the leading cause of home fires. Never leave cooking unattended. If grease catches fire, carefully slide a lid over the pan to smother the flames and turn off the burner.

Good Cooking Advice

Cooking is the number one cause of home fires in the United States. The leading cause of home cooking fires and injuries is unattended cooking.

Cooking Safely Prevents Fires

• always keep an eye on food being heated. If you leave the kitchen - turn off the heat! Good cooking tips: If the phone rings or something else requires you to leave the kitchen momentarily when cooking, take a pot holder or wooden spoon with you as a reminder to get back to the kitchen quickly.
• Keep young children away from appliances when cooking. If you allow older children to cook, supervise them closely and teach them safe cooking practices.
• Good cooking tip: Enforce a three foot kid-free-zone around the range and teach youngsters not to play in that area.
• Dress appropriately for cooking. Wear short or tight-fitting sleeves when cooking and use caution when working near heat sources.
• Good Cooking Tip: Try not to reach or lean over the stove. You can avoid this by not storing items you use directly over or behind the stovetop.
• Provide plenty of quality, fire resistant pot holders and oven mitts for the cooks in your household.
• Good cooking tips: Select heavy, fire retardant oven mitts that nearly reach the elbow to protect your entire forearm from heat.
• Turn handles inward so pots and pans won? be pulled or knocked off the stove.
• Keep the stove-top clean and clear. Store things that can catch fire, like pot holders or wooden utensils, away from heat sources

Good Cooking Tip: Keep food or grease form building up by cleaning often.

• Monitor hot oil carefully and heat it slowly, keeping the pan lid close at hand. Guard against splattering grease. Know what to do in case a grease fire occurs.
• Use caution with electrical appliances. Plug one appliance into an outlet at a time. Have appliances with frated or cracked cords repaired before using. Never stand in or near water when using electrical appliances.
• Good Cooking Tip: Un-plug countertop appliances when not in use.
• Always have pot holders and lids at the ready when cooking. You may need them if you experience a small pan fire.

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