-Please do not always taste your food *while* it's cooking if your food contains raw meat..
-Whether garlic makes your chocolate chip cookies better is open for debate
-The omelet thing kind of sounds like a personal preference
-The weight thing would depend largely on the type of cake your baking I'd think
-When cutting onions underwater, remember to surface occasionally to avoid running out of air
Of course! (Funny thing is, I'm writing a book and a character actually accidentally dies like this...why couldn't I think of this?) + rice water is nice for your skin, so it should become part of my morning routine.
Hehehe, you'll have to wait for me to finish and publish the story! ...Actually it's a spoof thing, a parody of adventure games with chosen heroes that were randomly offered a quest (like Zelda, Final Fantasy...). So here the hero is a complete dumbfuck, and the old wise man training him/her is having a really hard time, he uses drugs and sarcasm to cope (but he grows kinda fond of the hero after a while, even though he doesn't want to admit it). Due to various series of stupid events, their crew grows (it somehow ends up including a calf, among other stuff), they mess up so bad they actually fail the failures and end up succeeding on stuff. One day, they're off to kill nasty bugs with fire (bugs that live underground). On the way, they manage to accidentally push a man into a well. The hero adds rice to absorb the water (so the guy doesn't drawn). But the underground bugs crawl around him (cos they like rice, it's actually explained in the previous chapter) and since they're on fire..
...the water and rice boil. (They proceed to serve himin a feist then but I haven't written that part yet). So the "pot" is actually a well, but except that...
Hope I've satisfied your curiosity. If my explanations are hard to follow that's because I really summarized and if it seems stupid, don't worry, that's because it is.
I think I followed it alright haha. It sounds like you've envisioned a fairly rich world for all these mishaps to take place in. Yeesh, being boiled alive in rice by insects and served at a feast. Not the way I'd want to die. It's quite the rabbit hole to journey down at any rate!
Many of these are opinions or myths.
- the ones about measuring a perfect cake, or using weight vs volume, and the apple sauce:
Not always. It depends on what you are baking. Baking is chemistry. If you understand the chemistry, or have the experience to know when and where to do such things then do so. But do t rely on them. Also- use whatever type of measure is specified by the recipe.
- darker vegetables are not more flavorful or more nutritious. SPECIES of vegetables that are darker than others tend to have more nutrition on average. But take the modern mass market tomato: they were bred to be more vibrant red because people prefer that. Breeding that trait though reduced the flavor and color of the tomato which is why modern tomatos have little flavor or nutrition despite being deep red.
- some rice cooks with the top off.
-too much water or too big a pot can mess up cooking times and other things.
- + more.
-Whether garlic makes your chocolate chip cookies better is open for debate
-The omelet thing kind of sounds like a personal preference
-The weight thing would depend largely on the type of cake your baking I'd think
-When cutting onions underwater, remember to surface occasionally to avoid running out of air
Hope I've satisfied your curiosity. If my explanations are hard to follow that's because I really summarized and if it seems stupid, don't worry, that's because it is.
- the ones about measuring a perfect cake, or using weight vs volume, and the apple sauce:
Not always. It depends on what you are baking. Baking is chemistry. If you understand the chemistry, or have the experience to know when and where to do such things then do so. But do t rely on them. Also- use whatever type of measure is specified by the recipe.
- darker vegetables are not more flavorful or more nutritious. SPECIES of vegetables that are darker than others tend to have more nutrition on average. But take the modern mass market tomato: they were bred to be more vibrant red because people prefer that. Breeding that trait though reduced the flavor and color of the tomato which is why modern tomatos have little flavor or nutrition despite being deep red.
- some rice cooks with the top off.
-too much water or too big a pot can mess up cooking times and other things.
- + more.