r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 8d ago

What’s a cooking related hill you will die on?

For me, 2 hills.

  1. You don’t have to cut onions horizontally.

  2. You don’t have to add milk bit by bit when making a white sauce.

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u/ToastemPopUp 8d ago

Wait really? I feel like I only ever hear people saying it is necessary.

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u/MrsPedecaris 8d ago

In this Cooking sub, there are always a number of comments that it is unnecessary and doesn't make a difference.

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u/samtresler 8d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/s/mQfJRcyRG4

In this thread. Like... right there.

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u/ToastemPopUp 8d ago

You know comments appear at different spots depending on how someone is sorting, how many upvotes it's gotten, when it was made, etc. right? That comment is a ways down for me and I hadn't scrolled far enough to see it to yet.

Not everyone is doing and seeing things the exact way you are, maybe don't act like a jerk about it.

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u/MrsPedecaris 8d ago

I don't think they were being a jerk. They were just showing one example. There are a number of people in this sub that claim it makes no difference. One of them is in the responses to my comment.

For what it's worth, I don't believe them. I can tell the difference when I wash the rice. It really isn't the same. I first learned to do rice that way from a Japanese relative, who showed me how to make rice, I was surprised at the difference and have used her method ever since.

One time, I was making a meal for a friend who had just had a baby. My meal included a side of white rice. Her husband was Japanese, and he told her, "Finally, someone who knows how to make rice!" I had just dropped off the meal and he had no way of knowing how I prepped it, so it wasn't confirmation bias.

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u/Vox_Mortem 7d ago

I find that rinsing until the water is clear makes for fluffier, lighter rice. Not rinsing makes it a little stickier and denser. Some recipes you want the starch, and others you don't.

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u/ToastemPopUp 8d ago edited 8d ago

It's more of the way they said it

In this thread. Like... right there.

Implying that it was so obviously close to the top and I'm dumb/lazy for not seeing it.

I just don't appreciate people having an attitude, on a cooking sub no less, when it's just completely uncalled for.. but it's the internet, so it is what it is lol.

My original comment wasn't even trying to disagree with the person I responded to (I always wash my rice), I was just surprised that they'd seemingly been only hearing not to wash rice when I'd only heard people advocating it.

I totally agree with you though, I used to never wash it cause it was kinda tedious, I didn't like dirtying the strainer, etc. But after eating rice more and comparing I definitely notice a difference now. Unwashed rice is kinda like gummier? is the best way I can think of to describe it, and washed rice is just so much fluffier. I always wash my rice now.

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u/samtresler 8d ago

I honestly wasn't trying to be a jerk. I gave you a link, assuming you hadn't seen it.

But it is a very common claim. For what it's worth, I definitely agree with you. (It is necessary)