Cooking can be relaxing and rewarding – or incredibly frustrating. Despite your best efforts, sometimes the chicken is chewy, the cake is dry and the mashed potatoes are lumpy. To help you get your dishes right every time, we've ranked the most common cooking mistakes, counting down to the one people make the most. Read on to find out the wrong (and right) ways to prepare your favourite foods.

Click or scroll through our gallery to discover the everyday foods you never knew you were cooking wrong, counting down to the most common of them all.