Tips from Commercial Hospitality for Cooking at Home

If you strive to improve the quality and reduce the time of your cooking when you are working F / T here's a few tips:

1. Using the disposable plastic kitchen gloves will help you cut, help you pick up hot stuff etc ...
2. Using plastic gloves helps you move around faster! 
3. If you learn to hone a knife [Google Search of Honing a Knife] will probably help
4. Learning to clean your oven and stove helps - your cooking will be impaired if you are afraid of dirtying them!
5. Try and use yours hands to tear open packets, only use a knife (or even worse, scissors) when you have to - this saves time in the kitchen 
6. On that same not try and minimise the amount of time you move around, change utensils etc ...
7. A good kitchen has ample storage space and it pays to invest in bowls, utensils etc ... which are well used ~ good food doesn't just appear from nowhere if your kitchen is empty and sparkling clean your food is probably not that good! 
8. You will need to have the odd utensils e.g. spoons, tea spoons, bowls handy for intermediate goals as you can see any good chef will have a bit of cleaning up to do at the end!  
9. You can try getting a cheap apron - so you don't have to worry about staining your clothes - chef's shirts and aprons are all designed to be easy to take out stains unlike regular clothes. 
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