{"id":843,"date":"2025-11-19T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=843"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:13:03","slug":"this-is-padma-lakshmis-one-piece-of-advice-for-any-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"This Is Padma Lakshmi’s One Piece Of Advice For ‘Any Cook’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Padma Lakshmi revealed the one piece of advice she would share with any chef or home cook on the latest episode of the Delish podcast, SNACKS! <\/em><\/li>\n
Instead of trying to juggle chopping and cooking on the stove, she says to chop and set out all your prepared ingredients before you even turn the stove on. <\/li>\n
Beginners should cook on as a leisurely activity and \u201cmake it fun\u201d before really trying to host.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Padma Lakshmi may have, technically<\/em>, gotten her start in the modeling industry, but it\u2019s the culinary world where she became a household name. The former Top Chef<\/em> host spent 19 seasons on the Bravo series and has released four bestselling cookbooks since its debut, as well as a memoir and children\u2019s book inspired by her passion for food.<\/p>\n
Lakshmi\u2019s learned so many lessons <\/em>along the way, and while I\u2019m sure she could write four more books filled with that wisdom, there\u2019s one tip she wants every professional and amateur chef to know. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is advice I give to any cook making a recipe: read the recipe through twice. Look at the ingredient list. It\u2019s a very simple pantry list,\u201d she told host and Delish<\/em> Editorial Director Joanna Saltz on the latest episode of the podcast, SNACKS!<\/em> \u201cI have everything written, this many tomatoes chopped or this much whatever, minced. Get all your ingredients, wash them, chop them, measure them. Put them on the counter in the order they\u2019re going into your pot and then begin cooking. Most of cooking is chopping anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not only how they do it on all those cooking shows, it\u2019s how they do it in every single restaurant,\u201d she continues. \u201cIt\u2019s called mise en place. Even a chef is not peeling garlic while the onions are burning, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s so simple yet so smart\u2014and really does take the pressure off when you\u2019re at the stove. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat takes so much stress out of it, and I\u2019m trying to not only teach you how to make any given recipe in the book, I\u2019m trying to teach you the good principles of cooking,\u201d Lakshmi said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to teach you how to cook while teaching you just this recipe.\u201d <\/p>\n
Eventually, the entire cooking process becomes \u201cinstinctual\u201d instead, but before you get there, she recommends taking it slow. \u201cMake it fun. Do it with a friend or loved one and just enjoy it,\u201d she adds. \u201cCook on a Saturday as a fun, leisurely activity. Do not invite six people to dinner when you\u2019ve never made these dishes before.\u201d <\/p>\n