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The original thread appeared on Reddit a few years ago, and has since garnered over 5.3K upvotes and around 3.7K of all kinds of comments. On the other hand, in such threads, the most important thing is not the number of comments, but their quality, because, you see, a hundred banal and obvious culinary tips will never replace two or three really unexpected and therefore more wholesome ones.
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Some home cooks are rather dismissive of such collections of kitchen tips, believing that a real chef should come up with their 'signature style behind the stove' on their own. On the other hand, it is the little things that shape a person, and sometimes even become a game changer. Still don't believe it? Then here's a question for you - how important is the way how you salt your food?
If you say that it is important not how, but how much salt and when to add it, you will not be entirely right. In the end, a unique manner of salting meat brought worldwide popularity to one of the most famous chefs of our time - Nusret Gökçe, nicknamed 'Salt Bae'. Yes, that very YouTube guy who has since opened a chain of meat restaurants here, there and everywhere. So the little things matter too...
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"Sometimes kitchen hacks come to us not from other chefs, but from a completely unexpected side - for example, from food manufacturers," says Roman Sardarian, a chef from Ukraine, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment. "For example, here's a little secret that I personally use often when cooking pasta, even at home. For example, Barilla, an Italian manufacturer, came up with a true great idea a few years ago to help everyone who cooks pasta."
"After all, what is the most important thing when you cook pasta? Of course, proper timing. And so, the company's marketers have posted a special playlist on Spotify, where the songs last exactly as long as necessary in order to boil the type you need to perfect condition. Just turn on the desired track and when it finishes - voila, everything is ready! In my opinion, it's nothing but brilliant. I myself often use this 'musical timer' - even when I cook pasta from other manufacturers. Perhaps this secret will come in handy for someone..." Roman says.
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In fact, the beauty of the modern internet is that a home cook from one corner of our planet can find something useful for them from a chef literally from another hemisphere - and make their dishes taste better. Way better. After all, isn't that the main idea of any human interaction - to get better? Well, maybe not everyone on Earth thinks so, but anyway, be sure to scroll this list to the very end, maybe save some interesting ideas for yourself and add your own secrets in the comments as well - in case you consider them worth sharing with other respectful cooks.
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