Get to know a dish, and yank it around to suit you. There will be times when things burn or scorch and you have to start again or salvage what’s left. Remember, it’s just dinner, not Judgment Day. If you burn something on the bottom of a pan, plunging the bottom into cold water at once allows you to rescue some of the contents before they get a scorched taste.
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