Top Ten Recipes of 2015 (2024)

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Why do good chefs read the entire recipe first? ›

It is important to read the whole recipe before you begin cooking. This helps you know how the dish is made. All recipes start with the name of the dish. Next will come the ingredients needed.

Every restaurant has their own system for teaching recipes to their cooks. Some have recipe books, some have recipe viewers, and some chefs just write the recipes freehand, photocopy them and hand them out at the beginning of the shift.

After earning a vocational diploma in hotel management from North Oxon Technical College in 1987, he moved to London and began honing his culinary skills under chef Marco Pierre White at the restaurant Harvey's and under chef Albert Roux at La Gavroche.

The White House executive chef made between $80,000 and $100,000 annually in 2005 ($110,997 to $138,746 in 2021 dollars).

Gordon Ramsay is an actual cook. He started working in kitchens in the mid-1980s, when he was a teenager. As a very young man, he got a job in the kitchen of Harvey's restaurant in London, which was then run by a brilliant, charismatic and famously hot-tempered chef named Marco Pierre White.

Just as most pro chefs will read the recipe all the way through at least once before cooking from it, most will also cook all the way through a recipe at least once before making substitutions. You don't always know what an ingredient is doing in a recipe.

Every chef has their own creative process and preferred method for documenting their ideas — ideas which eventually morph into recipes. This can range from notebooks, scrap paper and post-it notes, to note apps like Evernote and Apple Note, Google Docs and countless other ways.

Reading the entire recipe before cooking allows you to familiarize yourself with the dish. That way, you'll feel more confident when making it. If you merely skim the recipe without reading the instructions carefully, you may overlook one or more crucial steps. Take as much time as you need to look over the directions.

The other great reason to read a recipe before you start cooking is to make sure it makes sense. A good recipe should be methodical and approach the dish with steps in order. Most recipes list ingredients in the same order they are used in the instructions.

Please, read carefully before you do anything — even before you've decided to actually make the thing! Read the recipe all the way to the end. Ideally, you'll read it multiple times. The effort is well spent.

What is reading through the recipe an important first step in preparing to cook? ›

First, reading your recipe will give you a heads up on the tasks at hand and a chance to make sure you have the necessary ingredients and equipment on hand. (How can you get your mise en place in order without reading your recipe first?)