Learn one new kitchen technique

Practise a cooking skill such as dicing an onion or poaching an egg.

Why it helps

Kitchen skills improve with repetition and pay off every day. One technique at a time is easy to absorb.

How to do it

1. Pick one technique.
2. Watch or read how it is done correctly.
3. Try it with whatever you have and note how it went.

Make it easier

Watch a demonstration only.

Make it harder

Use the technique in a full meal.

Take care with knives and hot surfaces.