Kitchen myths
Vince Poroke wrote:
> levelwave > wrote in message >...
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>>Peter Aitken wrote:
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>>>There are many "kitchen myths" that you hear regularly - ideas about cooking
>>>and food that are known to be false but seem to have a life of their own.
>>>For example, "searing meat seals in the juices." I thought it would be fun
>>>and perhaps useful to create a web page that debunks these myths. If you
>>>have any favorites I'd love to hear them. If possible, please include some
>>>information or references to back up your "myth-busting" opinion. I want
>>>this web page to be objective with research and citations backing it up.
>>>
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>>A drop of oil in the pasta water keeps the pasta from sticking...
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>>Chili doesn't have beans in it...
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>>~john!
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> Not so much cooking but cooking related. Add egg shells to you
> garbage disposal to sharpen the blades. Any understanding of what
> happens down there would debunk this myth. Cook pork till it is well
> done to kill of the virus that causes some type of worm (sorry can't
> remember what the name is and I am not about to go search the internet
> and come back to give you all the name just so that I may have a
> facade of intellegence, you all know who you are). All I have to
> support this is what Alton Brown said.
>
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