How to cook meat.

How to Cook Meat

When teaching a new cooking technique, it's best to keep the flavors simple and true to the featured ingredient. Complex flavors are just that—complex. The best meat I have ever eaten was slow cooked over a grill with salt and lemon. That single experience forever changed the way I cook.

I stopped trying so hard to create flavors. Instead, I began to enunciate the flavors already present by using simple complementary ingredients, with the occasional contrasting flavors thrown in. In doing this the flavors became stronger, purer, and more distinct.

These articles are entirely devoted to teaching you what you need to know in order to cook meat simply and well, and they include information about the tools, steps, ingredients, and precautions associated with the cooking of each meat. There are also tips, tricks, and variations to give you more options with each article.

This website is not designed to be an online recipe database. Recipes are wonderful guides to be used to replicate the success of others. But they don't teach you how to cook. Recipes are kind of like driving directions. No matter how well they are written, if you don't know how to drive a car, what good are they?

 

Cuts of Meats

Cuts of Meats is an upcoming project for Nils that will help to better illustrate the types of meat, the cuts, and where your meat comes from. Once the project has been completed, it will be announced and integrated into this site.

 

Questions and Feedback

The greatest thing about cooking is that it encourages creativity and diversity. With this in mind, I encourage you to try new things and experiment with the ideas I have set before you. These articles represent my opinion and my way of cooking. How do you cook? Please feel free to email me any questions, stories, or comments. I am always ready to talk about food.