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Timing Is Everything: The Complete Timing Guide to Cooking [Paperback]

Jack Piccolo
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Book Description

March 7, 2000
Cooking shouldn't be a research project, forcing you to read through recipes to find answers to the simplest of questions: How long? Now, Timing Is Everything, the ultimate guide to timing and storage, provides easy answers at a glance.  

Author Jack Piccolo has assembled chart after chart offering invaluable, at-your-fingertips cooking times for grains, fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, sausage, even nuts! Taking into consideration size, weight, and thickness, each food's cooking time is listed alongside brief, easy-to-follow instructions on each particular cooking method. In an instant, you can find, for example, how long to broil a piece of salmon, toast pine nuts, or boil fettuccine (fresh or dried). In addition, general directions on cooking methods--from baking to deep-frying to stir-frying--and sections on storing and freezing foods are included for quick reference.

Separate chapters on microwaving, pressure cooking, and storing foods supply important information in the same easy chart format. Who hasn't wondered about defrosting and reheating in the microwave, or relying on frozen meats and vegetables? By definitively answering these questions, Timing Is Everything takes the guesswork out of cooking so home cooks can be more confident in the kitchen and concentrate on making the most out of their ingredients and preparing a delicious meal.  

Never overcook another steak, serve pasta that is too al dente, or worry about food safety again. Once you get your hands on this book, you'll be amazed you ever cooked without it.  


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Amazon.com Review

Jack Piccolo's Timing Is Everything, a guide to food timing and storage, sets out to dispel the when-is-it-done doubts. In chart after chart, Piccolo provides shorthand preparation information and cooking times for most fruits and vegetables, grains, meat, poultry, fish, sausages, and more. Additional chapters on microwaving, pressure cooking, and food storage supply similarly useful data. If dish success is based on a number of variables in addition to (and as important as) cooking time, Piccolo is, nonetheless, on the right track. Most cooks will welcome a "fingertips" source for better-than-ballpark dish and storage timing plus the kind of succinct preparation advice he offers. How long will the roast beef take? Find the book's beef section and consult the comprehensive charts. Choose your cut, then learn, for example, that a seven- to eight-pound rib roast, started in a 550-degree oven, is cooked to rare--an internal temperature of 115 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit--in one-and-a-half to one-and-three-fourths hours. Piccolo also includes explicit data on defrosting and heating in the microwave and on shelf, refrigerator, and freezer storage. Whether used to resolve timing quandaries or as a cookbook adjunct, Timing Is Everything should help cooks become more confident as well as knowledgeable. --Arthur Boehm

From Library Journal

After an introduction to cooking methods, Piccolo provides charts detailing timing for everything from braising small game birds to defrosting in the microwave to storing foods in the pantry, refrigerator, or freezer. There is certainly a lot of information here, but whether or not there is an audience for the book seems questionable. Most novice cooks (and many others as well) would prefer to follow recipes, while more experienced cooks, when improvising, would probably just turn to a favorite cookbook for guidance on timing. Not a necessary purchase.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 7, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0609802070
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609802076
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 7.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, easy to use, and indispensable. March 26, 2000
Format:Paperback
This easy to use book has been incredibly helpful. It will be an indispensable reference for anyone who cooks.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Now and Forever May 25, 2000
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This is not a review of "Cats", but now and foreever is the position this book will have in my kitchen library.

Cooking is my hobby. I don't cook every day for my family. I prefer to have two or three couples over for a great meal, rather than eat in a restaurant. Most of the time I intuit recipes half remembered from my childhood or from a great dining experience. Discerning how long a certain cut of meat should cook, or how much time I should allow for potatoes or carrots to be sauteed, boiled or steamed so that they come out at the same time as the main dish is a problem when you cook the way I do. Up to now, I have had to wade through cookbooks looking for similar recipes or rely on their dreaded meat temperature cooking chart. I have found that cookbooks are all over the lot! One cookbook's medium roast beef temperature is another book's well done. One book will tell you to boil potatoes for x minutes for mashing, another one will say y minutes, and neither will tell you wether you are boiling the potatoes whole, halved, or quartered.

Timing is Everything solves that problem. It is painstakingly accurate, well organized, and seems to anticipate my questions as I am formulating them. It is basic. It is informative. It is a permanent fixture in my kitchen library, and will be until I stop eating, which is as close to forever as I can get.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Busy Life - Eating well May 14, 2000
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This book gives you confidence in cooking like your grandmother and mother had...It makes sense and takes the work out of putting a delicious meal together with ease..A little of this; a little of that...I learned to trust myself in the kitchen again! Thanks, Mr. Piccolo!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Timing is Everything-The Complete Timing Guide to Cooking
Timing is Everything- Great Cook Book!!!!!!!!! It tells you the temperature and how long to cook everything. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jean -Savannah,Ga.
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have Book for all Cooks
I've had a copy of this book for years. Friends and relatives often call me for info on how long to cook something and what temperature should it be cooked at as well as what... Read more
Published 4 months ago by LMJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Every kitchen should have this one
This should be part of every couple's first kitchen bookshelf, along with the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book and Joy of Cooking. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Robin Alwine
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the few cookbooks I've kept!
I've had this book for about 10 years now. It's followed me through countless moves across the country-- and the multiple purges of stuff that comes from moving that often. Read more
Published 17 months ago by isabel
5.0 out of 5 stars Timing is everything from MargieK
The most useful adjunct to cooking that has ever been produced. Immense value to neophytes and professionals. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Mark L. Kricheff
5.0 out of 5 stars A Kitchen Essential
Forget all the other wedding gifts. This thick paperback will add more to life long harmony than any kitchen oriented gift you'll ever find. How long to cook the meat... Read more
Published on November 27, 2010 by Philip A. Dirickson
5.0 out of 5 stars the new Joy of Cooking
I have just discovered this timing book. Amazing! I never knew how simple cooking could be to get the perfect result. Read more
Published on June 6, 2008 by cookie
5.0 out of 5 stars best cookbook ever!
This is the best. I always know what I want something to taste like but never how long to cook it without a regular recipe (which is a pain and never quite what I want). Read more
Published on November 22, 2007 by C. Borden
5.0 out of 5 stars Has Everything
This book is great! It shows you how to cook products in every different method.
Published on June 8, 2007 by M. J. Franze
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for the Novice Cook
I LOVE this book. I am a trained chef and cooking instructor and constantly was having friends and family asking questions like "how long do I cook this? Read more
Published on January 26, 2007 by Greg P.
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