Before you start cooking, make sure you had assembled all the required ingredients and check them with your recipe. If you are a beginner, follow the recipe as such without skipping the ingredients and altering the quantities.
Assemble all the cooking pots and pans before you start the actual cooking. Wash and keep them ready on the stove top.
Whisk eggs in large bowls instead of small bowls. Hence they gets stiffens quicker.
Use granulated sugar for plain cakes, but fine castor sugar for creamed and sponge mixtures.
A pinch is as much as an ingredient as can be held between your index finger and thumb.
Make a list of items to purchase before you go for shopping. You can categorize vegetables, groceries and stationery items separately.
Gelatine, which are used for making puddings dissolves more quickly if it is first soaked in cold liquid.
Do not keep bananas in fridge. They will discolor and lose its flavor.
Storing dried lemons in satchels and hanging them in wardrobe will prevent moths.
Scrape carrots instead of peeling, because the outer portion contains vitamins.
