People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

Categories: Culture | Food and Drinks | Life hacks | People

Cooking is so much fun, and it will nourish your body and your soul, too. The interesting part is that people always share all kinds of amazing cooking hacks that are supposed to make the process easier.

The problem is that not all of the hacks are good. Some of them are pretty unnecessary and might even make cooking more complicated. That’s why when someone online asked about the weirdest food hacks that don’t make sense in real life, many netizens were quick to share.

More info: Reddit

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People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

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People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

#2

Cauliflower rice.

It's not rice. It will never be rice. Worse than nut juice.

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

#3

Nothing will top the disappointment I felt after swapping out butter for mayo on a grilled cheese.

Cooking can be extremely fun or tiring, depending on whether you enjoy the process or not. A Gallup and Cookpad study of cooking across the world found that Northern, Southern, and Western Europe cooked the most, with an average of 7.8 home-cooked meals a week. That’s a lot of tasty dishes being prepared!

A survey about the cooking habits of people in the United States found that 50% of the respondents were okay with spending 30–60 minutes cooking a weekday meal. Creating a meal from scratch can be time-consuming, especially if you have to wash the dishes afterward. Culinary hacks can make your life easier, but this list shows that not all tips are useful.

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

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>And, don’t get me started on microwaving potatoes. A microwaved potato will never compare to a real, baked potato.

To my mind, they're 2 different things for 2 different times. A microwaved potato is for a quick Wednesday dinner when I've got zero energy, I'm starving, and I wasn't to avoid ordering takeout. Potato in the microwave, tin of baked beans heated up, some grated cheese. A hot, filling, reasonably nutritious dinner in under 15 minutes.

But if I want a baked potato as a show stopper or as part of a bigger, nicer meal then it's going to be done in the oven.

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

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Peeling garlic by shaking the cloves around in a (covered) bowl. I exhausted myself and the cloves are just sitting there in their skins, mocking me.

Cracking eggs on flat surfaces. I can't for the life of me get a clean horizontal crack. I just get a circular web of smashed eggshell, and the inner membrane is still intact. Every time I try this technique that everyone says is superior to cracking on the edge of the bowl, I inevitably decide to go back to that trusty bowl edge that almost* never gives me the problems those same people say it does. (* Only almost, that's why I keep trying the flat surface thing.).

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

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I tried making one of those viral recipes for pasta that involved putting a block of Feta in a baking dish, with cherry tomatoes, garlic, thyme, and enough olive oil to make the US Military invade my apartment on the pretense of harboring WMDs.

Well…the feta didn’t melt too well. I kept adding pasta water, and mashing…no dice. It looked like vomit, had the acidity of vomit, and smelled like garlic and thyme-flavored vomit.

Of course, I tried to still eat it. Of course, it tasted like salty, oily, lumpy, chunky vomit with pasta in it. It was revolting!

I relented and had a hot pocket for dinner.

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

#7

Ever see the weird thing where you put spaghetti noodles through hotdog bits and then cook them and it looks cool?

Yeah, you know how the spaghetti inside of the hotdog gets cooked? It doesn't. Enjoy your needles.

People Online Trashed These Well-Known Food Hacks That Are Useless In Real Life

#8

Not exactly a hack, but I’ve watched so many tutorials on how to cleanly filet a whole fish and I am convinced they are all CGI. Mine always come out looking like they were filleted by feral cats.

Keywords: Cooking | Food hacks | Cooking failures | Useless hacks | Cooking hacks | Real life

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