Exploding potatoes, curdled soymilk, bitter chicken stock, uncooperative bread dough — we all experience the occasional disaster in the kitchen, and it is always followed by the same thought: how can I make sure that doesn’t happen again? That’s when our readers step in, offering knowledgeable advice about what might have gone wrong and how to avoid the same problem next time. This year they tackled a wide variety of cooking missteps, from runny cakes and smelly kale to cracking dutch ovens and no-longer-nonstick pans.

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Some skills are essential for good cooking, and some are just really really handy to know. How to properly sear meat and whip cream would both fall in that first camp, and wrapping a burrito so it doesn’t fall apart and making a buttermilk substitute when you’re all out fall in the other. We love sharing these kinds of skills and tips with you on The Kitchn, and we’ve worked hard this past year to bring you ones that we think will truly help your cooking. Here are fifteen that we don’t want you to miss:

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