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What's Your Best Tip For Cooking Meat Or Fish?

Teach us your ways.

We've all made mistakes in the kitchen, and cooking meat and fish presents its own unique challenges. There are a lot of great tips about cooking meat that people are unaware of.

For example, a good tip is to let your meat rest for 5-10 minutes after coming off the fire so that the juices can redistribute instead of cutting it immediately, which would drain the juices.

A picture of seasoned beat lying on a grill and then getting chopped

A habit that people should avoid is pressing burger patties when they cook because it squeezes all the juice out.

A juicy burger patty on a grill

Another good habit is to chop up chicken before cooking it so that it cooks faster and so it all cooks at the same time.

Tell us good habits for cooking meat and fish, and also tell us bad habits that people should avoid. You could be featured in BuzzFeed post or video.