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    15 "Bad" Cooking Habits You Need To Stop Doing, And 14 Good Ones That'll Make You A Professional Chef

    Stop pressing down on your burger while it cooks! It squeezes out all the juices, and your burger will be dry.

    We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the worst cooking mistakes people make in the kitchen and which good habits they should do instead. Here are the must-read results.

    1. Bad habit: "Stop pressing/smashing your burger patties (or any food, really) while they cook. That literally squeezes all the juice out, and you'll be left with a dry burger."

    Alton Brown cooking a burger

    2. Good habit: "Always cook your meatloaf on a baking sheet instead of in a loaf pan. Loaf pans trap all the grease and fat and will make your meatloaf soggy."

    Ina Garten cooking meatloaf

    3. Bad habit: "There really is such thing as too much garlic. Adding a little more than the recipe calls for is fine, but adding 10 times as much just makes everything taste like garlic. I