1. Cooking vegetables for too long
Vegetables contain a lot of healthy nutrients, but it can be lost when cooking vegetables at high temperatures and for too long. This not only causes nutrients to be lost, but also makes the taste of vegetables less delicious.
An alternative to boiling and stewing is steaming vegetables. According to chef and nutritionist Michelle Dudash, steaming is the cooking method that preserves the most flavor and nutrients.
2. Do not add salt when boiling eggs
Hard-boiled eggs are one of the most popular breakfast foods. Usually, people do not pay too much attention to adding salt to the water when boiling eggs. However, if salt is added to the water before boiling, the egg white will remain inside the shell even if the shell is cracked. Salt water helps egg whites to solidify faster.
3. Do not soak potatoes
Soaking potatoes in water helps to remove excess starch, better for diet. If you soak peeled potatoes in cold water for a few hours, you’ll notice the water becomes more opaque at the bottom. You should change the water from time to time to remove excess starch.
4. Don’t cook rice with green tea
When cooking rice with tea, the nutrients and flavor of the tea will penetrate into each grain of rice, making the rice very fragrant and attractive.
5. Do not wash vegetables with cold water after blanching
Usually after blanching, people will let the vegetables stay hot and continue cooking. However, to keep the fresh flavor and crunchy texture, it’s a good idea to rinse the vegetables in cold water or even submerge them in ice water.
If you do not do this, the vegetables will continue to be cooked while still hot and will lose their taste.
6. Boil beets instead of cooking them in the microwave
People are used to boiling beets in water. In case you don’t have much time, there is another more effective and faster way than to put it in the microwave.
Take a medium-sized beetroot, wrap in foil and microwave for 5 minutes.
7. Peel garlic cloves
We can waste time on seemingly simple little things like peeling garlic. Instead of peeling each clove of garlic, you should cut it in half, put it on the table, use a knife to beat it, it will work much faster. If you want to go even faster, you should cut the original part first.
8. Add salt immediately when cooking egg dishes
When salt is added to the egg first, it will destroy the structure of the egg, easily causing watery phenomenon. According to chef Gordon Ramsay, you’re better off adding salt at the end of the cooking process. This is the way to cook the best eggs, he said.
9. Do not add salt to coffee
Although adding salt to coffee may seem strange in some countries. However, this will help make the coffee less bitter and taste better.
In 2009, food scientist Alton Brown suggested adding salt to coffee in a cooking program called Good Eats. Salt neutralizes bitterness better than sugar, he says, and also softens the fishy taste of water.
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