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Level Up Your Cooking Skills
Level Up is a new series from Bon Appétit Management Company focused on cooking techniques that our chefs use every day to elevate their from-scratch dishes — and you can, too! Read the tips, watch the video, and try the recipes.
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Zest
Make your cooking more a-peeling with citrus zest! This quick technique will brighten your next meal.
Caramelize
Caramelizing coaxes complex flavors out of ordinary vegetables, revealing surprising depth. The best part? This culinary technique is as easy as it is fundamental.
Roast
Roasting is fundamental — take food, apply fire, and wait. But the results of roasting are anything but elementary: big, complex flavors, mouthwatering aromas, and browning that adds tons of eye appeal.
Stock
Homemade stock is a culinary gamechanger. And guess what? It’s the easiest thing to throw together.
Braise
By its very nature a braise is meant to be flexible. Brown some meat or aromatic vegetables in fat, add liquid, then let everything simmer into a state of deep flavor and succulent tenderness.
CHIFFONADE
Create delicate ribbons of leafy vegetables or herbs with this easy-to-master knife skill.
EMULSIONS
Emulsions make what seems impossible into reality: Liquids that normally don’t mix — oil and water, for instance — become one.
DEMI-GLACE
Demi-glace is worth the wait. Invest the time and effort and this sauce will reward you with deep flavor.