Hi, we're Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough. And we're on vacation this week. So we're rerunning a listener favorite (at least, if we can trust the download numbers).

We're offering up our answers to some of the most common cooking mistakes we all make.

Here are the segments of this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK:

[00:50] Softening cream cheese when baking with it

[4:02] Softening butter for baking

[6:15] Testing meat to see if it's properly cooked

[8:33] Cooking with the right heat

[9:54] Measuring flour

[12:31] Adding salt