Cooking Tips & Terms

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Conversions

Metric conversions

weight conversions

US-metric conversions

metric-US conversions

Other Conversions (temperature, cholesterol, etc)

US/UK/Metric Conversions (lots)

Terms

Le Petit Chef's Cooking Terms

Japanese Cooking Terms

Scottish Food and Drink

Louisina cooking terms

The Food Lover's Glossary: big dictionary!

Epicurious's dictionary

Spice Alphabet: names of spices in lots of other languages.

Culinary Word Origins

Substitutions

Aunt Edna's Substitutions

The Cook's Thesaurus: substitutions for a lot of cooking ingredients

Aunt Edna's Food Equivalents

A description of Food Types

Chef's Express Book: tips, glossary & recipes

Rudi's Cooking Tips (substitutions, stain removal, bread)

Cooking Tips

Cornucopia: gardening & culinary tips

Dolores'WEB Page: cake decorating

Helpful Hints for Successful Baking (from M&M's page)

The Chef's Store professional Chefware, product rating system, tips on what to use & when

How to make your recipes healthier

Simple ways to change recipes (to make them healthier)

Le Petit Chef's info on Cooking Methods

Le Petit Chef's info on Cooking Utensils

NetChef's Techniques (Preparing Mushrooms, Sauteing Vegetables, Mincing, Deglazing and Reducing, Toasting Pine Nuts, Cooking Pasta, Dicing Onions or Other Round Vegetables, Separating Egg Whites from Yolks, Dicing Tomatoes and other Vegetables)

USDA Food Safety & Nutrition fact sheets (in PDF format)

Drying, Freezing & Canning

Drying Foods

Freezing Food

Freezing Fruit

Freezing Vegetables

Freezing Meat

USDA Canning guide (in PDF format)

Home Canning Guide

Home Canning Smoked Fish

See this list of Interactive sites