How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques

How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques
by: Fine Cooking Editors

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Binding: Hardcover
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: October 18, 2005
Sales Rank: 821668

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Product DescriptionNeed a cool way to handle hot chiles? Looking to cut down on kitchen clean-up? Let the readers, contributors, and editors of Fine Cooking magazine show you the way. How to Break an Egg is a one-of-a-kind resource of more than 1,400 kitchen-tested tips, shortcuts, and ingenious solutions to culinary emergencies, all organized in an easy-to-access format for quick reference or more leisurely reading. Look under Basil in the Ingredients chapter and you'll find tips for drying it, keeping its bright green color, and making your pesto go further. Look under Cookies in the Cooking chapter for clever ways to roll out cookie dough without it sticking, or to form perfectly shaped cookies, or to get just the right texture you want in your chocolate chip. You'll also discover tips on cookware and utensils, serving, storage, clean-up, and kitchen safety.
If disaster strikes, flip immediately to When Things Go Wrong, an invaluable chapter of troubleshooting charts, whether your soufflé is falling, your cheese sauce is curdling, or you've just discovered you don't have the right size pan for the cake you're in the middle of mixing up. In Handy Kitchen Techniques, you'll find 42 basic prep techniques, from trussing a chicken to clarifying butter, illustrated step-by-step in full color.
The perfect reference for cooks at any level, How to Break an Egg will be your indispensable go-to kitchen resource.
''In my cooking classes and on my radio show, I get those thorny questions regarding recipe disasters. Phew! Now I won't hve to make up 'creative answers' anymore. For the solution to every culinary dilemma, run out right now and pick up a copy of ,How to Break an Egg.''
--Tom Douglas, restaurateur and author of Tom's Big Dinners
''No kitchen is totally complete unless this book is on the shelf. It's a wealth of information, and I personally could not do without it!''
--Paula Deen, author of Paula Deen&Friends: Living it Up, Southern Style
''How do you create a warm place to proof bread or make a quick cup of buttermilk? Ever think of cutting cheesecake with a fishing line or defatting stock with ice cubes? The answers to these and hundreds of other practical questions rarely addressed in even the most sophisticated cookbooks are provided in this revolutionary new reference manual no serious cook can do without. I've waited a lifetime for an authoritative, sensible, reliable kitchen companion such as How to Break an Egg and cannot recommend the book highly enough. Just reading through it is an invaluable class in itself.''
--James Villas, author of Crazy for Casseroles and Biscuit Bliss

''This is a terrific resource reference book and one that I think every cook, whether just beginning or old pro, will find helpful on a regular basis. Fine Cooking has been one of my favorite culinary magazines for a long time and How to Break an Egg reflects their friendly, researched, and illustrated approach that I look forward to reading every month.''
--John Ash, restaurateur and author of John Ash Cooking One on One
''A good chef never serves his or her mistakes. Now you don't have to. Finally a fix-it manual for your kitchen.''
--Tom Colicchio, Chef/Owner of Craft restaurants and Gramercy Tavern

What Others Say

Fun Fact Filled Book
Saw How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques at my daughter-in-law's and couldn't put it down! I think I've found the perfect engagement/shower gift for the new bride!

Great for Beginners
I borrowed How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques from my local library and looked through it and realized that I had to have a copy of my own. It is a book with very clever ideas on using kitchen equipment, fruits, veggies, you name it. It even has answers to questions that I've always wondered about like.....Why will potatoes and onions spoil more quickly if you store them together?

I like to cook more now because I'm more informed about foods, utensils and equipment. This would be a great wedding shower gift for any young woman starting her own family and who isn't very experienced in the kitchen. I don't know if it would be useful for more experienced cooks because I'm not one. Hopefully that helps.

review for How to Break an Egg
I've been cooking for more years than I like to count, but How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques gave me a lot of tips I never came across before, plus a handy color photographic section on de-shelling lobsters and shrimp and pitting various fruits. However, the tip on shelling hard boiled eggs, one of my cross-eyes bears, didn't work for me. For any home cook, though, this is wonderful recreational, as well as useful, reading.

Helpful for experienced cooks and new ones too!
I love to pick How To Break An Egg : 1,453 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, Emergency Substitutions and Handy Techniques up and just read a few pages (I always learn something!) It has also helped me several times when I had a question about how to keep something fresh or how I can substitute ingredients. I gave it to one of my best friends for Christmas and she was thrilled. I have to admit that I am a great fan of Fine Cooking magazine and cookbooks.

A Must Have
This is a must have book for even a professional chef / cook. It is filled with all kinds of great tips that I doubt even a master chef knows.