8 easy ways to improve your cooking, according to professional chefs

Let’s face it, toast is surprisingly easy to burn.

So when it comes to actually cooking something that resembles proper food, it’s pretty easy to burn/set fire to/spectacularly ruin everything in sight.

Luckily, chefs are on hand to help us with some of our most culinary mistakes.

A Reddit thread asked a few chefs what us mere amateurs are getting wrong, and this is what they had to say.

Keep still

Get things in order

Preparation is key

Get the herbs right

Chop properly

Know the worth of your salt

And finally, relax and enjoy

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