Techniques

Cooking techniques

Preparing fruit and vegetables

1. Chopping chillies

   Skill level: Easy

2. De-seeding tomatoes

   Skill level: Easy

3. Grating lemon zest

   Skill level: Easy

4. How to cook asparagus

   Skill level: Easy

5. How to cook chips

   Skill level: Easy

6. How to cut calories in cooking

   Skill level: Easy

7. How to prepare a pomegranate

   Skill level: Easy

8. How to roast vegetables

   Skill level: Easy

9. How to sharpen a knife

   Skill level: Easy

10. Knife skills: how to finely chop

    Skill level: Easy

11. Learning to chop: dicing an onion

    Skill level: Intermediate

12. Learning to chop: slicing an onion

    Skill level: Easy

13. Learning to chop: the 'chiffonade' or shredding technique

    Skill level: Intermediate

14. Learning to chop: the 'julienne' technique

    Skill level: Intermediate

15. Preparing artichoke hearts

    Skill level: Intermediate

16. Segmenting citrus fruit

    Skill level: Intermediate

17. Skinning peppers

    Skill level: Easy

18. Skinning tomatoes

    Skill level: Easy

19. Toasting and skinning hazelnuts

    Skill level: Easy

20. Zesting citrus fruit

    Skill level: Easy

Meat, poultry and eggs

1. Browning meat

   Skill level: Easy

2. De-boning and butterflying a leg of lamb

   Skill level: Advanced

3. Freezing tips

   Skill level: Easy

4. How to boil eggs

   Skill level: Easy

5. How to bone a chicken thigh

   Skill level: Easy

6. How to bone lamb shoulder

   Skill level: Intermediate

7. How to brown mince

   Skill level: Easy

8. How to carve a roast chicken

   Skill level: Easy

9. How to carve roast pork

   Skill level: Easy

10. How to cook glazed ham

    Skill level: Intermediate

11. How to cook pork chops

    Skill level: Easy

12. How to cook scrambled eggs

    Skill level: Easy

13. How to cook steak

    Skill level: Easy

14. How to deglaze a pan

    Skill level: Easy

15. How to fry eggs

    Skill level: Easy

16. How to joint a chicken

    Skill level: Advanced

17. How to joint a rabbit

    Skill level: Intermediate

18. How to make meatballs

    Skill level: Easy

19. How to poach an egg

    Skill level: Intermediate

20. How to poach eggs in advance

    Skill level: Easy

21. How to portion a chicken

    Skill level: Easy

22. How to roast a duck

    Skill level: Easy

23. How to roast chicken

    Skill level: Intermediate

24. How to separate eggs

    Skill level: Easy

25. How to tie a butcher’s knot

    Skill level: Easy

26. Perfect pancakes

    Skill level: Easy

27. Preparing and cleaning chicken livers

    Skill level: Easy

28. Scoring skin

    Skill level: Easy

29. Searing meat

    Skill level: Easy

30. Spatchcocking chicken and poultry

    Skill level: Intermediate

31. Testing whether turkey, chicken and poultry are cooked

    Skill level: Easy

32. Whisking egg whites

    Skill level: Easy

Fish and shellfish

1. Butterflying prawns

   Skill level: Intermediate

2. Choosing cooked lobster

   Skill level: Easy

3. Cleaning and de-bearding mussels

   Skill level: Easy

4. How to clean and fillet sardines

   Skill level: Intermediate

5. How to clean and prepare squid

   Skill level: Intermediate

6. How to cook salmon

   Skill level: Easy

7. How to dress a crab

   Skill level: Intermediate

8. How to fillet cooked fish

   Skill level: Easy

9. How to fillet round fish (mackerel, trout, etc.)

   Skill level: Intermediate

10. How to skin and fillet a flatfish

    Skill level: Intermediate

11. Peeling prawns

    Skill level: Easy

12. Removing the meat from cooked lobster

    Skill level: Advanced

13. Scaling, gutting and cleaning a round fish

    Skill level: Intermediate

Pasta

1. How to cook pasta perfectly

   Skill level: Easy

2. How to cook perfect rice

   Skill level: Easy

3. How to make couscous

   Skill level: Easy

4. How to shape Chinese dumplings

   Skill level: Intermediate

5. Making pasta dough by hand

   Skill level: Intermediate

6. Rolling pasta using a pasta machine

   Skill level: Intermediate

Desserts, baking and pastry

1. Breaking chocolate

   Skill level: Easy

2. Caramelising sugar with a blow torch

   Skill level: Intermediate

3. Chaffing scone dough

   Skill level: Easy

4. Covering a pie with a pastry lid

   Skill level: Easy

5. Crimping the edge of a pasty

   Skill level: Easy

6. Decorating a cake with chocolate transfer sheets

   Skill level: Intermediate

7. Folding

   Skill level: Easy

8. Glazing with egg wash

   Skill level: Easy

9. Greasing and lining cake tins

   Skill level: Easy

10. How to assemble a tiered wedding cake

    Skill level: Advanced

11. How to blind bake pastry

    Skill level:

12. How to cover a cake with fondant icing

    Skill level: Intermediate

13. How to cream butter by hand

    Skill level: Easy

14. How to fold egg whites into a mixture

    Skill level: Easy

15. How to ice a cake with buttercream

    Skill level: Easy

16. How to ice a cake with royal icing

    Skill level: Intermediate

17. How to ice cupcakes

    Skill level: Easy

18. How to ice cupcakes with poured fondant

    Skill level: Easy

19. How to knead bread dough

    Skill level: Easy

20. How to line a rectangular cake tin

    Skill level: Easy

21. How to line a round cake tin

    Skill level: Easy

22. How to make a checkerboard cake

    Skill level: Intermediate

23. How to make a paper piping bag

    Skill level: Easy

24. How to make a pavlova base

    Skill level: Intermediate

25. How to make a Swiss roll cake

    Skill level: Intermediate

26. How to make caramel and praline

    Skill level: Intermediate

27. How to make choux pastry

    Skill level: Intermediate

28. How to make Italian meringue

    Skill level: Intermediate

29. How to make pastry tart cases

    Skill level: Intermediate

30. How to make two-tone icing

    Skill level: Easy

31. How to marzipan a fruit cake

    Skill level: Intermediate

32. How to pipe chocolate decorations

    Skill level: Intermediate

33. How to pipe icing decoration on a cake

    Skill level: Intermediate

34. How to poach pears

    Skill level: Easy

35. How to shape and fill vol-au-vents

    Skill level: Intermediate

36. How to shape Danish pastries

    Skill level: Easy

37. How to shape hot water pastry for a raised pie

    Skill level: Easy

38. How to shape pizza dough

    Skill level: Easy

39. How to soften butter fast

    Skill level: Easy

40. How to temper chocolate

    Skill level: Advanced

41. How to test for stages of sugar syrup

    Skill level: Intermediate

42. Icing a cake with chocolate ganache

    Skill level: Easy

43. Kneading bread with oil

    Skill level: Easy

44. Knocking back

    Skill level: Easy

45. Lining a tart tin with pastry

    Skill level: Intermediate

46. Lining a tart tin: preparing the pastry case for shrinkage

    Skill level: Easy

47. Lining a tart tin: trimming the pastry

    Skill level: Easy

48. Melting chocolate

    Skill level: Easy

49. Preparing ramekins to cook soufflés

    Skill level: Easy

50. Removing cakes from a cake tin

    Skill level: Easy

51. Removing vanilla seeds from pod

    Skill level: Easy

52. Rolling out pastry

    Skill level: Easy

53. Rubbing in

    Skill level: Easy

54. Shaping a loaf of bread

    Skill level: Easy

55. Steaming a pudding

    Skill level: Intermediate

56. Testing to see if a cake is cooked

    Skill level: Easy

57. Using a food processor to pulse ingredients

    Skill level: Easy

58. Using fresh yeast

    Skill level: Easy

59. Using piping bags

    Skill level: Intermediate

60. Whipping cream by hand

    Skill level: Easy

61. Working with filo pastry

    Skill level: Easy

62. Wrapping a pudding for steaming

    Skill level: Intermediate

Sauces, pastes and condiments

1. De-glazing pan gravy

   Skill level: Easy

2. Freeze leftovers in an ice-cube tray

   Skill level: Easy

3. How to make a red wine sauce

   Skill level: Easy

4. How to make beurre blanc

   Skill level: Easy

5. How to make mayonnaise using a food processor

   Skill level: Easy

6. How to make salad dressing

   Skill level: Easy

7. How to make white sauce

   Skill level: Easy

8. Making herb butter

   Skill level: Easy

9. Skimming stock

   Skill level: Easy

10. Thickening gravy using beurre manié

    Skill level: Easy

Other

1. How to knead bread dough

   Skill level:

2. Lining a tart with a cartouche (baking blind)

   Skill level: