Guides
Cooking tips and tricks from the kitchen.
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Welcome to Mise en Party
How to get started with Mise en Party: find a recipe, plan the meal, shop for it, and cook it step by step, alone or with others.
What is mise en place?
Mise en place (meez ahn plahs) means every ingredient is measured and prepped before cooking starts; Mise en Party builds it into every recipe and plans when each bowl is prepped.
Meals and courses: plan a meal, not a recipe
Mise en Party weaves every dish in a meal into one cooking order, with courses for dishes served at different times.
Cooking the meal
Cooking together
How Mise en Party splits one meal's steps between a partner, friends or family cooking together.
Timing multiple dishes to minimize cooking time
Every dish's steps are woven into one schedule, solved so the whole meal is ready on time and takes as little time as possible to cook.
Tool scheduling: planning around your kitchen
Mise en Party schedules each meal around how many burners, pots, pans and appliances your kitchen has, and warns when a meal needs more than you have.
Hosting a dinner party
Plan a dinner party as one meal with courses, prep what you can the day before, and make the meal part of the event by cooking it together with your guests.
Prep
Prep bowls: mise en place in every recipe
Prep bowls hold the ingredients that go into a dish at the same time, prepped before they are needed, so cooking is adding each bowl when its step calls for it.
Cooking faster with shared prep
An ingredient that several dishes use is prepped once, so the onions for two dishes are chopped together and the meal is done sooner.
Prepping recipes ahead of time
Prep ahead for a later meal, like an overnight dough, at a meal you are already cooking, so kitchen time is grouped into fewer sessions.
Thawing frozen food
Mark ingredients as Needs thawing to have Mise en Party remind you to pull them from the freezer, so they're ready to use when you need them.
Across the week
Batch cooking
When several meals in your plan use the same sauce or stock, make it once in a batch ahead of the meals that need it.
Ingredient substitutions
Ingredient substitutes are built into the recipe itself, so the ingredient list, directions and shopping list update automatically.
Recipes as ingredients
Recipes don't have to stand alone: a spice mix or stock can be its own recipe and an ingredient in another, automatically planned and scheduled alongside it.
A shopping list built from your meal plan
Your shopping list is built straight from your meal plan, grouped and filtered the way you shop.