I’ve gone 47 years without knowing that.

74 points

Same technique as making and integrating a cornstarch slurry to thicken a soup.

permalink
report
reply
45 points

If you add hot water to corn starch, you’re gonna have a bad time. And clumps.

(Use cold water to make the paste, then add that to the heated liquid you want to thicken via corn starch, FYI.)

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points
*

Now the real fun is doing 5 gallons of soup, breaking out the industrial immersion blender and xanthum gum.

Blender > clumps.

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

In my experience 5 gallons of soup will need about 15 picograms of xanthan gum! That shit is powerful!

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

The blender is greater than the clumps?

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

How does that improve the slurry method above?

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Usually I mix cold water and starch in a jar and shake the fuck out of it, then pour it into the sauce or soup or whatever

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Add starch to cold water to make gravy.

Add starch to hot water to make dumplings.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

is there nothing Americans won’t add corn products to?

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

I was going to say gasoline, but actually no, not really.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

THE PLOT NO LONGER CLUMPENS!

permalink
report
reply
3 points

Believe it or not, another waiter told me about this, yeeears ago. It’s like some dark art for non-coffee patrons. It was a ritual when I came to see my nephews, too.

We used a small amount of milk instead; especially when the restaurant is cheap about it.

permalink
report
reply
18 points

Same if you make mac and cheese with powdered cheese. Make a roux, make the sauce, then mix the sauce into the noodles.

permalink
report
reply
16 points

Any mac’n’cheese recipe that involves silent consonants is too fancy for my mac’n’cheese…

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

That’s rough. I mean, rof.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Your Kraft mac and cheese will be much easier to mix the cheese in my way.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Took me too long to figure that one out

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

When making mac and cheese just cook the pasta in milk, then when it’s ready add in the grated cheddar, mozzarella and cream cheese and stir. Job done.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

That’s kind of a different thing than I was talking about.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Today I Learned

!til@lemmy.world

Create post

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn’t matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**



Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That’s it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.

Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Community stats

  • 7.2K

    Monthly active users

  • 752

    Posts

  • 19K

    Comments