hey all,

I've created a topic here to share and discuss interesting cooking tips.

Do u know of any interesting traditional way of cooking?
1) Soaking bitter gourd in salt water to reduces the bitterness level of the bitter gourd
2) soaking raw cockle in milk before cooking to remove the fishy smell of the cockle
3) cooking rice with lemon juice to increase the stickyness and whitening the rice
4) cooking vinegar with meat to tenderize meat

These are some of the interesting tips i've heard. What about you? Let's share and make the world a more delicious place!



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This post has been edited by chloe_yee87: Sep 26 2009, 04:32 PM

Try wash and soak rice overnight in a dash of cooking oil, then the cooked porridge will be very smooth and soft.

use rice water to water the plants

Use remain ing assam water to polish your silverwares & etc...better than any polisher...

use coke to wash toilet bowl

Thanks guys! but we're discussing on how to enhance the food by addition of other ingredients...

not to wash toilet ya

Oh..wokkay...but using cooking materials for something else might nake this thread more happening...haha..

I was wondering how those Ipoh chicken rice & melaka Chicken rice make their Pak Cham kai so tender...tips please...

The Pak Cham Kai, go through the process of dipping into boiling water(with incredient like ginger and leek) then go into ice water. Repeat 3x this process. Until the chicken is cooked but not overcook. The ice water prevent overcooking and shrink/tighten the skin (to preserve the sweetness of the chicken).

There are also chicken rice sellers who have specific order for chicken (must be how many months old, weigh how many kg etc) to the supplier.

oh...this is good tips...let me post it up on the first post
Thanks for sharing!

tie pandan leaves and add into rice for boosting smell, helps lower uric acid level as well.

ppl who cook call these "methods"

only those who cant cook call these "secrets".

teh secret to my secretive sup is using ginger, without peeling off the base skin.

secret?

hmm...mine not anything secret...but i find it quite useful

-peel ginger off with a spoon instead of a knife, safer
-add a dash of corn flour to the meat before stirfrying..will turn out smooth n succulent

Ha ya, me too use the spoon to scrap ginger skin!

adding vinegar to water before boiling egg.
the egg shell wont crack