Food Safety Tips!
Food safety at home poses special challenges. It takes skill and organization to provide healthy meals on a daily basis. Ensuring bacteria does not find its way into the food is a full-time job. Follow these tips:
Food safety at home poses special challenges. It takes skill and organization to provide healthy meals on a daily basis. Ensuring bacteria does not find its way into the food is a full-time job. Follow these tips:
- Organize and manage your refrigerator and oven space in a way to keep hot foods at 140 degrees or more and cold foods at 40 degrees or below.
- Cook food to its proper temperature to ensure that any bacteria is killed off. Leftovers should be cooked to 165 degrees and kept above 140 degrees during serving.
- Refrigerate leftovers within two hours of preparation. Leaving food out too long is a safety hazard. Ensure the fridge is not too packed but has plenty of air circulating around the food.
- Defrost food stuffs properly, especially poultry and meats. Allow five hours per five pounds to defrost in the refrigerator after removing from a deep freeze. Never defrost on the kitchen counter.
- Wash your hands thoroughly and often. It's a good habit to clean hands before, during and after food preparation. It's the easiest way to minimize bacterial contamination.
- Wash all fresh produce, even prepackaged greens to minimize potential bacterial contamination. Make sure kitchen counters, sponges, cutting boards and knives are all well scrubbed.
- Always check the use-by or expiration dates of food products. Make it a habit to look for the fine print on ready-made food items for the recommended consumption period.
- Do not eat food containing uncooked eggs, or you risk contract salmonella. Eggs should always be stored in a fridge and cooked well.
More Baking Hints & Tips!
- Bring chilled ingredients, such as butter and eggs, to room temperature.
- Eggs or egg yolks should always be added to a cake mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Never open the oven door during the first half of cooking time. After the halfway point, if you need to open the door, open and close it gently.
- When whisking egg whites, ensure the bowl and beaters are clean and dry before you start, or the egg whites won't whisk properly.
Perfect Cakes
- Cakes do best if baked in the size pan recommended in the recipe. However, if the correct pan is not available or a special shaped pan is to be used, fill pans only half full of batter.
- Shiny metal pans make a tender cake with a light brown crustbecause the pan reflects the heat. If you have dark pans, reduce oven temperature 25 degrees.
- Place pans in the middle of the oven for even browning.
- Layer pans should not touch and there should be at least one inch of space all the way around pans.
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More cooking tips coming your way! I promise to add more cooking and kitchen tips for you especially to those cooking beginners.
Good luck on your cooking!
I hope you will continue to visit my site and spread the words with your family and friends.
Happy Cooking Everyone!!!
Khayechristin