30 Recipes Everyone Should Know By The Time They're 30 (2024)

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How many recipes does the average person know? ›

A survey found that, on average, people claimed to know how to make 15 recipes without having to look them up.

From Hunger to Hope. From frozen foods to Jell-O molds, the 1930s and 40s saw a huge upsurge in convenience foods. Building on the popularity of brands like Wonder Bread, Kool-Aid, Velveeta Cheese, and Hostess Cakes, American supermarkets stocked up on mass-produced items.

1. Read the recipe. Of all the important advice out there about cooking, this by far has to be the number 1 rule of cooking: read your recipe completely before getting started. This may seem like a mundane task (especially when you're excited dive in!), but you'll be so thankful you took the time to do it!

A study of 2,000 adults also revealed that only four in 10 British people know more than nine recipes. The survey, commissioned by the UK's leading recipe box service HelloFresh, also revealed that on average we cook every night and have six recipes in our repertoire.

Researchers asked 2,000 people about their eating habits and found the average person eats only two meals a day, along with three snacks. The most commonly replaced meal of the day was lunch with 49% of people opting to eat a snack instead.

Many of today's favorite snacks were also introduced during this decade: Twinkies, Snickers, Tootsie Pops, Fritos, 3 Musketeers, Ritz Crackers, Kit Kat Bars, Five-Flavor Life Savers, 5th Avenue Bars, Rolo, Smarties, Heath Bar, Lay's Potato Chips and RC Cola.

What foods were invented in the 30s? ›

"Even in the Depression, people were so inventive," Cass County Historical Society President Marilyn Fry says of the durable food brands born in the depths of the 1930s. Birds Eye Frosted Foods, sliced Wonder Bread, Hostess Twinkies, Mott's Apple Sauce, Snickers candy bars, French's Worcestershire Sauce.

The technique involves holding your greens with your middle finger placed in front of your index and ring fingers, with your nails all tucked in to face your palm. Your knuckle then guides the knife as you chop. This technique helps reduce the likelihood that your heady greens will be damaged in the cutting process.

Be safe about cleanliness. Wash your hands before you handle any food, keep your equipment and work surfaces clean, and don't let cooked food touch anything that previously touched raw food. You should keep your refrigerator at 40°F and your freezer at 0°F or colder.

Survey Finds 28% of Americans Can't Cook.

In 2021, approximately 28% of Americans cook at home daily, while 70% cook weekly. On average, people in the US spend 37 minutes per day cooking. 28% of males say they can only cook five meals or less without a recipe. Roughly 98.5% of households own a cooking stove or range in the US.

Q: How many recipes are in an average cookbook? A: The average cookbook contains 150–250 recipes.

Among the most startling findings is that 28% say they dont know how to cook.