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When I worked in kitchens, I had five seperate timers on my station so I could keep from constantly burning things. I’m so glad I realised it was burning me out before I finished my apprenticeship.
Oh shit! My pasta! Thanks!!
Yeah, this is a good idea.
Wish the twat that fell asleep after starting to cook some food had done that at my previous place. Almost burnt the entire building down and because of her stupidity, it displaced at least 2 families and a couple of pets were lost.
Holy shit!
Why is it that when I see post about things people with ADHD find helpful like this, its a hard lesson I learned on my own? I often wonder if I have ADHD.
This is pretty much how I went undiagnosed into middle age.
I don’t have ADHD (afaik) but recently while I was making coffee, my brother told me something while the coffee was pouring from the machine, and after a while I turn and find it overflowing and leaking watered down coffee everywhere. It wasn’t a fun start to my morning and it left me concerned for my short term memory lol
Do y’all’s stoves/ovens not have built in, repetitive, annoying timers?
I can’t imagine putting something in the oven without hitting that
Mine will shut off after the timer finishes
I have a gas cooker that will continue to cook long after your house has burned down around it.
Mine plays a little tune, both my dad and I use the timers on our phones instead
Yes but when you walk out of the room and get distracted, you can’t hear the oven timer.
@luthis No thx. Music, a glass of whiskey and dancing in the kitchen is my solution.
ProProTip: Rice cooker. You think “meh I don’t need it” but they’re the tits, get you one that can steam too (the instapot style, not the little bullshit $15 ones. Those are good too though.)
Do you have one you can recommend?
I just have a cheap one of the instapot style ones, I don’t even know the brand, sorry.
I was wondering how they burnt rice. But then I remembered people will make it in a pot.
Alexa in the kitchen has saved many a meal.
Also the multiple NAMED timer feature has been tons of help keeping things in order. “Potatoes timer 45 minutes” “Roast timer 2 hours”
Pro tip: get a rice cooker. No more burnt rice. Also: much better rice.
This, so much. Especially if you cook short grained rice like sushi, makes it almost impossible to fuck up.
I resisted getting one for so long because I didn’t want a single purpose appliance when I could make it in a pot.
So I finally allowed myself to get a little one, and I love it so much. 1 part rice, 2 parts water, push button, walk away… perfect rice.
In case anyone else has the same issue, you can make rice just as easily in an electric pressure cooker (e.g. Instapot) which has a much wider use case.
Although, I’ve never used an actual rice cooker, so I can’t testify to the difference in quality
I’d read that too. I hadn’t let myself buy an Instapot either because I have a stovetop pressure cooker that I’m comfortable with using. I have crockpots, and a sous vide circulator (which I love dearly, omg, wanna talk about set it and forget it) . I already had accumulated all the things separately that an Instapot can do. But when COVID started, I let myself buy an Instapot, because I expected to be cooking so much more and thought maybe this miracle appliance everyone raved about would save me effort in the kitchen. And what I found is that for my recipes and cooking style, the Instapot may do all those things, air fry, sous vide, slow cook, pressure cook, but it can’t do them as well as my existing equipment. It might hold the water temp ok for sous vide, but it’s not circulating the water (an important factor in the cooking style). It ran too hot on the low slow cooker mode. It took fricking forever to come up to pressure. I could only air fry one portion at a time. I finally conceded that I’m just not the target user for those things. I never did try making rice in it though. We’ve since moved and it’s packed up somewhere. When I find it again, I might try it one more time, but otherwise it is destined for my MIL’s annual yard sale.
I’m not the target user for the instant pot either, but it does rice pretty well. That’s about all I use mine for, actually.
I didn’t like rice. A food I had to eat to please my wife that she can have rice. Like once a month
Then she got a rice cooker. A cheap one. Good rice, I started accepting it better. Like, okay, every two weeks is okay. Maybe one and a half.
Then she got a good one. I mean, medium price range, like between 100 and 150€. I demand! rice one a week! Okay, I did some research and got good rice as well. But oh my gosh. This is such a difference.
And it helps so much with adhd as well - you can put in the rice and forget it an hour longer as planned and it is still great, warm and delicious. Just a game changer when it comes to rice.
Pro tip: if you’re cooking rice, use a rice cooker. A really cheap one does a much better job than the stove. It also doesn’t burn the rice, because when it’s done it switches to keeping it warm.
hmm… Yeah maybe I should get another one of those.
If you’re feeling fancy, get one with a timer in it. Other than that it just needs a power switch and a cook/warm switch. Rice is honestly the only food that really deserves its own cooker IMO.
I want one, but don’t have room for yet another kitchen gadget
Kitchen island time!
My house has a solid ban on any product with “maker” in its name.
That’s rough self-homelessing on cardiac pacemakers, but house rules are rules I guess.
That sounds like quiter talk to me and mama didn’t raise me to be no quiter.
More gadgets!
I learned young that I have to use timers for all cooking tasks. I have zero ability to identify how much time passes. I’ve always been jealous of people who just throw food in the oven or on the stove, do a bunch of stuff, and instinctively retrieve all the food, properly cooked.
Wierdly, when I do put a timer on, I can. I suddenly realise it’s been about 17 minutes and I’ll check and the timer is 20 seconds off ringing. Only happens when I actually put a timer on though, and I can’t intentionally do it.
My partner (also ADHD) can sometimes count down a timer to the second, it’s incredibly eery. Though, to be fair, she is a drummer.
Oh, I try, but I use “ok google” and my girlfriend’s phone, my mum’s phone, my kiddo’s phone and my own all then set timers. And then they won’t stop going off from my voice command, even though they started from my voice command.
It’s crazy when I’m in the kitchen :P
Even without ADHD, this is good advice.
Especially for pasta. I only really eat Barilla, and do it a minute less than they say on the packet for al dente. Rolling boil first, salt, chuck pasta in, stir it so they get a good coating, cover, stir every other minute, drain immediately then mix into whatever sauce I’m cooking (or sauce into the pot with the pasta) to cook it in for a minute.
Guess what, it’s exactly the same as the much cheaper store brand stuff.
It is not.
It sure is. Have fun throwing your money away.
My £4 a week pasta habit for something I enjoy is not throwing money away. If this was truly the case then restaurants wouldn’t be using better brands than supermarket own brand stuff. Nor would I choose the £1 box over the 40p pack when I could be saving money. Di Cecco is another brand which is good but not so easy to find.
If a restaurant isn’t making it fresh, they’re buying it in bulk from a wholesaler. Maybe they’ve got a deal with Barilla, or maybe they shop at the same restaurant supply store I do and get the sacks of brandless dried pasta. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.
You’re clearly a nasty person who should have stopped responding after your initial, pointless comment.
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I learned to do that after burning soup.
Yeah, let’s be glad I didn’t take the whole house with me that time.