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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. Learning to chop: dicing an onion

    Skill level: Intermediate

  5. Learning to chop: finely chopping celery

    Skill level: Easy

  6. Learning to chop: slicing an onion

    Skill level: Easy

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

    Skill level: Intermediate

  8. Learning to chop: the 'julienne' technique

    Skill level: Intermediate

  9. Preparing artichoke hearts

    Skill level: Intermediate

  10. Segmenting citrus fruit

    Skill level: Intermediate

  11. Skinning peppers

    Skill level: Easy

  12. Skinning tomatoes

    Skill level: Easy

  13. Toasting and skinning hazelnuts

    Skill level: Easy

  14. Zesting citrus fruit

    Skill level: Easy

Meat, poultry and eggs
  1. Browning meat

    Skill level: Easy

  2. Carving a cooked chicken into serving portions

    Skill level: Easy

  3. Carving pork

    Skill level: Easy

  4. De-boning and butterflying a leg of lamb

    Skill level: Advanced

  5. Jointing chicken

    Skill level: Advanced

  6. Poaching eggs

    Skill level: Intermediate

  7. Preparing and cleaning chicken livers

    Skill level: Easy

  8. Scoring skin

    Skill level: Easy

  9. Searing meat

    Skill level: Easy

  10. Separating eggs

    Skill level: Easy

  11. Spatchcocking chicken and poultry

    Skill level: Intermediate

  12. Testing whether turkey, chicken and poultry are cooked

    Skill level: Easy

  13. 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. Cleaning and preparing squid

    Skill level: Intermediate

  5. Filleting and skinning flatfish

    Skill level: Intermediate

  6. Filleting round fish

    Skill level: Intermediate

  7. Peeling prawns

    Skill level: Easy

  8. Removing the meat from cooked lobster

    Skill level: Advanced

  9. Scaling, gutting and cleaning a round fish

    Skill level: Intermediate

Pasta
  1. Making pasta dough by hand

    Skill level: Intermediate

  2. 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. Creaming butter by hand

    Skill level: Easy

  6. Crimping the edge of a pasty

    Skill level: Easy

  7. Folding

    Skill level: Easy

  8. Glazing with egg wash

    Skill level: Easy

  9. Greasing and lining cake tins

    Skill level: Easy

  10. Kneading bread

    Skill level: Easy

  11. Kneading bread with oil

    Skill level: Easy

  12. Knocking back

    Skill level: Easy

  13. Lining a tart tin with pastry

    Skill level: Intermediate

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

    Skill level: Easy

  15. Lining a tart tin: trimming the pastry

    Skill level: Easy

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

    Skill level: Intermediate

  17. Making choux pastry

    Skill level: Intermediate

  18. Melting chocolate

    Skill level: Easy

  19. Preparing ramekins to cook soufflés

    Skill level: Easy

  20. Removing cakes from a cake tin

    Skill level: Easy

  21. Removing vanilla seeds from pod

    Skill level: Easy

  22. Rolling out pastry

    Skill level: Easy

  23. Rubbing in

    Skill level: Easy

  24. Shaping a loaf of bread

    Skill level: Easy

  25. Steaming a pudding

    Skill level: Intermediate

  26. Testing to see if a cake is cooked

    Skill level: Easy

  27. Using a food processor to pulse ingredients

    Skill level: Easy

  28. Using fresh yeast

    Skill level: Easy

  29. Using piping bags

    Skill level: Intermediate

  30. Whipping cream by hand

    Skill level: Easy

  31. Working with filo pastry

    Skill level: Easy

  32. Wrapping a pudding for steaming

    Skill level: Intermediate

Sauces, pastes and condiments
  1. De-glazing pan gravy

    Skill level: Easy

  2. Making herb butter

    Skill level: Easy

  3. Skimming stock

    Skill level: Easy

  4. Thickening a roux to make béchamel sauce

    Skill level: Easy

  5. Thickening gravy using beurre manié

    Skill level: Easy

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