"Home Cooks Reveal Life-Changing Kitchen Habits and Cooking Hacks"

Redditors have shared various small habits that have significantly improved their home cooking skills. These habits include adding finishing salt to desserts, brining meat, switching to chicken thighs, steaming sunny-side-up eggs, shredding cheese from blocks, toasting and grinding whole spices, keeping recipe notes, cleaning as they cook, removing food from heat before it's fully cooked, sharpening knives regularly, reading multiple versions of a recipe, using less heat, incorporating acidic ingredients, mastering cooking techniques, using a digital cooking thermometer, washing and storing produce immediately, reading recipes thoroughly, using mirepoix and soffritto, using a bowl for discarding leftovers, understanding proper cooking techniques for different cuts of meat, balancing fat, salt, heat, and acid, using soy sauce in various dishes, being generous with seasonings, browning meat before slow cooking, practicing mise en place, not flipping food too often, tasting as they go, keeping it simple in the kitchen, and deglazing the pan after cooking.