This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2466.

Four cooking tips that will end your recipe guessing by Chef Todd Moore with Ben Greenfield

Fitness.com. And I'm Dr. Neal, your host and narrator.

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Dr. Bob Rottella.

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Four cooking tips that will end your recipe guessing by Chef Todd Moore with Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.

Cooking is not made easy when you're still guessing. In fact, guessing at cooking increases the stress

because guessing makes you unsure of the results to come.

I'm going to give you a little cooking help by offering some tips on how to end your guessing.

One of the reasons that you guess is because it's hard to believe something until you can

actually see it. But I want to help you to wrap your head around the idea that you have to believe it first and then you'll see it.

Quantifying your portion sizes, temperature, and testing are great ways to allow you to stop guessing.

Let's go ahead and look at how that might work.

Four ways to quantify your cooking and eliminate guessing.

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