Who doesn't love a good trick? Sometimes life can get a little too hectic, and simplifying everyday things might leave you with some much-needed time on your hands. Nowadays, people come up with some of the most inventive hacks that sincerely work wonders – however, with the number of ideas skyrocketing online, sometimes it's hard to tell whether any are worth trying at all.
Many of us find prepping meals a tad bit too time-consuming, and we're constantly on the lookout to make this whole process more manageable. We're willing to try out those "genius" hacks that promise to make kitchen time much less stressful – yet, let's face it, most of them either overcomplicate things or are downright pointless.
"What cooking 'hack' do you hate?" – this netizen turned to Reddit's r/Cooking community to start an open discussion. They revealed their most dreaded cooking tricks; for instance, store-bought herb pastes, anything that’s supposed to make peeling boiled eggs easier, and any microwaveable recipes, such as mug cakes. The post has managed to garner over 5K upvotes and 3.1K comments discussing so-called life-changing kitchen hacks that, in reality, don’t work.
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#21 Dumping Dry Pasta, Slices Of Cheese And Milk In A Casserole Dish
Those dumb videos where people dumb dry pasta and slices of cheese and milk in a casserole dish and cook it all at once.
35points
#22 Using A Garlic Press For Ginger
"Use your garlic press to quickly press ginger as well"
Would not recommend.
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33points
#23 Saving Veggie Scraps For Broth
I'll go first. I hate saving veggie scraps for broth. I don't like the room it takes up in my freezer, and I don't think the broth tastes as good as it does when you use whole, fresh vegetables.
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Store-bought herb pastes. They just don't have the same oomph.
Anything that's supposed to make peeling boiled eggs easier. Everybody has a different one--baking soda, ice bath, there are a hundred different tricks. They don't work.
Microwave anything (mug cakes, etc). The texture is always way off.
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30points
#25 Premade Marinades
premade marinades almost always suck. My only exception to date is Soy Vay veri teriyaki.
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27points
#26 Slicing Mushrooms With An Egg Slicer
Somebody once told me to try using one of those wire egg-slicers to slice mushrooms. I gave it a shot and ruined my parents' egg slicer. Would not recommend.
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25points
#27 Cooking In The Microwave
Cooking in the microwave. I just don't do it. The microwave for me is for reheating or defrosting only.
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23points
#28 Using Baking Soda When Cooking Shrimp
Ok Kenji, I’ll concede brining shrimp in baking soda makes a difference, but this m**********r be putting baking soda in *everything*
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17points
#29 Making Pesto With A Hydraulic Press
Making pesto with a hydraulic press
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10points
#30 Using Cooked Chicken Bones In Broth
In the same vein as your example of using veggie scraps for broth/stock, I also think that using cooked chicken carcasses (looking at you, rotisserie chicken) always makes an inferior broth/stock when compared to that made with raw chicken carcasses.
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-22points