MISE EN PLACE All mise en place, pronounced MEEZ ahn plahs, means is to have all your ingredients prepared and ready to go before you start cooking. Translated from French, “ to put in place.” How many of you have started a recipe only to find out you were missing one or two of the key ingredients ? And some of the key ingredients especially gourmet ones are not available at your local store. A good example of using this technique that we all seem to understand is making a simple sandwich. Think about it. You gather up all the ingredients you need and get them ready for assembly. Make sense? So why not apply the same technique to all your cooking. Another good example of using this technique is when you stir-fry. Because everything gets cooked so quickly, you must have all your ingredients ready to go. If you practice this one skill and “put everything in place” before you get started, your dishes will come out better and you will enjoy the act of cooking more than ever. If you ever have the opportunity to meet a professional chef sometime, ask them how much time they put into mise en place everyday. They spend as many hours in prepping for a typical night in a good restaurant as there are for actual cooking.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:16:54 +0000
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