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Setting up your kitchen – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills


00:00:00before you start cooking anything it’s a

00:00:02really good idea obviously to get all of

00:00:04your equipment ready all of your

00:00:06ingredients ready but also it’s a good

00:00:08idea to give yourself lots of space to

00:00:10work now look at this kitchen here it’s

00:00:13got lots of lovely things in it but a

00:00:15lot of them I don’t need to do the

00:00:16recipes that I want to do so it’s I’m

00:00:19gonna actually declutter this area get

00:00:21rid of things I don’t need and what

00:00:22that’s gonna do is give me loads of room

00:00:25to lay out all my ingredients do all my

00:00:27work and I won’t get in the muddle and

00:00:29everything will be under control so for

00:00:31example all these bottles here the only

00:00:33one I need is olive oil so I’m just

00:00:36going to leave the olive oil here and

00:00:37the rest I’m gonna take and put next

00:00:40door now I can always put them back

00:00:43later but I don’t need them at the

00:00:46minute so I’m just gonna get them out

00:00:48the way olive oil I’ve got my cooking

00:00:51implements here these candles I don’t

00:00:53need this mug I don’t need kind of salt

00:00:55and pepper

00:00:57so yeah salt and pepper here got my

00:01:00scales that’s good these things I don’t

00:01:02need put my cookbooks don’t need that

00:01:08what books are there with my recipes in

00:01:10with chopping boards here my notebook

00:01:12that’s good no fruit bowl I don’t need

00:01:17this right in a minute so what I’ll do

00:01:18is just stick this on top of the fridge

00:01:20next door I can always put it back later

00:01:22egg whisk don’t need for this recipe

00:01:25I’ll pop it in the drawer now jar full

00:01:28of pains and bits and bobs I don’t need

00:01:30that

00:01:30magazines I’ll put in the living room

00:01:34you can see the space I’m opening up

00:01:37here already and it’s just gonna make

00:01:38things much much easier to control mugs

00:01:43some people have mug trees you know

00:01:45they’re pretty things are useful things

00:01:47but they’re actually just getting away

00:01:48so I’m gonna pop these over here for the

00:01:50time being it doesn’t matter where you

00:02:08move these things to you know it could

00:02:09be next door in the living room it could

00:02:11be on the dining room table

00:02:12it could be in the study could be in the

00:02:14spare room be anywhere you like just

00:02:16long as they’re out the way so that you

00:02:18can really get to grips with your

00:02:19cooking okay lemons I’m gonna need some

00:02:26lemon so I’m gonna keep those there and

00:02:28press the mortar I want these herbs I’m

00:02:33not going to use these hurts today so

00:02:34what I’ll do is put them outside just

00:02:36I’ll put the right side just till I

00:02:39finish cooking but no and then I’ll put

00:02:41them back so these cookbooks I’ve got

00:02:45the one that I want

00:02:47so these I’m just gonna stack on the

00:02:49floor so they’re not in the way so can

00:03:02you think already just how much more

00:03:05room there is just how much easier is

00:03:07going to be to work in this kitchen so

00:03:09that’s one of the important steps or

00:03:11preparing yourself to cook anything at

00:03:13all and let’s give yourself space to

00:03:14work