What Was Your Game-Changer of a Cooking Discovery?
It’s Reader Request Week at The Kitchn, and we’re covering as many of your requests as possible (see all of them here)!
But we’re not the only ones with answers — you have a lot to share too, and today I would love your help with one reader’s question: What was your game-changer cooking discovery? You know, the one that changed the way you cook, or that you just had to tell everyone about? Read on for a reader’s example of a game-changer, and for mine, and share your own!
Here’s Mary Frances Ellison’s original question:
What has been your “game-changer” of a cooking discovery that you end up telling everybody about (because it’s an idea that’s so brilliant you simply HAVE to tell friends/family/co-workers)? For me, it was the “aha” moment of roasting a spatchcocked chicken for the first time … the fantastic combination of quicker cooking time, perfectly cooked meat and an entire chicken covered in crispy skin was a revelation and moved roast chicken from Sunday dinner to a weeknight meal!
I would love to know if there are any other cooking methods/recipes/organization techniques that fall into that “game-changer” category – ie. once you try it, you’ll never go back to your old method again.I think that my own “game-changer” was learning how to use a wok. I had always felt like the wok was unnecessary and maybe even a bit pretentious; wasn’t a skillet just as good? But then I had a day of cooking lessons with Grace Young, wok-master extraordinaire, and I fell in love with my brand-new carbon steel wok. Cooking vegetables, in particular, was so fast and so delicious in the wok, that sometimes my husband and I now will just eat a heap of stir-fried vegetables over rice for dinner.
→ See our wok series here: Wok Cooking with Grace Young
What about you? What was your game-changer of a discovery in the kitchen?
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This post was requested by Mary Frances Ellison.