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The 5 Cardinal Sins of Cooking (and How to Avoid Them)

Hell hath no fury like a kitchen scorned.

Keegan Manton
Master It
Published in
6 min readOct 11, 2021

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You are hereby pronounced guilty of several culinary sins.

You did not know what you were doing at the time, but by skipping the salt in your seasoning mix, or using a hazardous chopping board, you have sentenced yourself to flavour jail. You had better hope that your mistakes stop there, because if you continue, then you will be cursed with slow-boiling pasta water and potatoes that never quite reach fork tender for eternity.

There are dozens of poor choices that you can make in the kitchen, and while some seem innocuous at first, they are just accidents waiting to happen or, sometimes, hidden ways to ruin your food before it even begins.

Not Tasting Your Food As You Cook

You might be wondering “who doesn’t taste their food as they cook” — that without knowing where your recipe is heading, you are surely setting yourself up to fail. And you would be right.

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Keegan Manton
Master It

2 x Medium Top Writer | Founder of Master It & ALifeOfMastery.com | Teaching All About Food, Cooking and Fun Stories Worldwide