My goal is to help make cooking easy for you. While understanding how to cook with a cooking method rather than following a recipe, it’s also important that you get cooking tips that help rather than confuse. One of the reasons cooking can be difficult or even a little intimidating is the result of guessing.

1. Guessing while cooking is bad.

Let me give you an example. In my early days of cooking for a living, I was working with a chef that told me, “Todd, you can’t put TOO much butter in the Hollandaise.” The problem is, I wasn’t sure if I was in trouble for putting too much butter in the hollandaise sauce or if I needed to load it up with butter.

In the end, I had no idea if I was going to be able to make the sauce to his liking. I had to guess.

Guessing and not knowing if you’ll be successful is stressful! Stress can increase your fear of cooking which does not help to make cooking easy and it should be.

• Are you ever surprised by the results of your cooking?
• Does your meal come out terribly wrong?
• Perhaps, once in a while, the meal that you’ve cooked comes out unexpectedly great?

These are the results of guessing. Maybe you’re guessing because:

• You’re not sure how your meal is going to be received.
• You lack experience or confidence with the presentation of your food.
• You feel such a responsibility when you cook that you feel you may let people down.

So, while you’re cooking, you’re constantly second guessing yourself. You may be guessing because you are cooking ingredients that you haven’t worked with before. What in the world does…

• A correctly cooked Brussel Sprout look like?
• A Swordfish look like when done?
• A person do with an eggplant?

It’s enough to make a person terrified!

2. Guessing leads to inconsistency and surprise results.

• Have you ever been cooking rice and while it’s boiling, you think it needs more rice? Were you surprised when the rice was done and some kernels were crunchy?
• What about turning an item over and over again while you’re sauteeing?
• Are you gashing your steaks or burgers to test to see if it’s done?

3. Guessing can’t be duplicated.

If you’ve cooked a great meal, do you know how you did it? What if you tried to duplicate it and it wasn’t as good the next time? Now, you have even less confidence and begin guessing even more!

I want to help you stop guessing at your cooking and gain the confidence to be able to depend on great results each time. I want to make cooking easy for you and give you tips that will make your cooking great every time your cook.

I want you to start with this cooking tip: In your cooking tonight, try to take notice of the things that you guess at, and start considering ways to quantify your cooking in the future.

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