Lessons > How to Sweat Ingredients
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Lesson Overview
Sweating is the gentlest dry-heat cooking method. Sweating is commonly the first step or technique used to begin developing flavor in a dish. If sweating is done incorrectly, it can negatively impact the end result.
In this lesson, you will learn how to sweat properly and why it is often benef…
Click to expand...Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- define what sweating is
- understand how and why sweating can dramatically affect your cooking
- properly sweat ingredients
- understand when it is most appropriate to sweat ingredients
Course Syllabus
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1. | Introduction: How to Sweat Ingredients |
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2. | Complete Your Self Assessment |
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3. | Why Sweat Ingredients? |
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4. | How to Sweat Ingredients |
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5. | Activity | Sweating for Flavor Development |
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6. | Practice Activities & Recipes |
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7. | Lesson Quiz |
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Prerequisites & Related Lessons
Please consider these additional lessons to support your learning and discovery. Some of these lessons are prerequisites that may help contextualize what you are learning and form a baseline of knowledge and skill. Other lessons are related and may help you explore next steps or dive deeper on a learning topic.
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17 Videos
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7 Tasks
Task 1: Introduction: How to Sweat Ingredients
Task 2: Complete Your Self Assessment
Task 3: Why Sweat Ingredients?
Task 4: How to Sweat Ingredients
Task 5: Activity | Sweating for Flavor Development
Task 6: Practice Activities & Recipes
Task 7: Lesson Quiz
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