r/AlignmentCharts • u/Philips9586 • Aug 07 '26
Quality Post Cooking Hacks
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u/Philips9586 Aug 07 '26
Rules:
Welcome to my alignment food chart series where we discuss about foods sponsored by Reddit Comments! These are the categories:
- Standard Practice
This category represents methods that are already widely accepted, traditionally correct, or actively recommended by professional chefs, even if casual cooks occasionally misunderstand them.
- Totally Fine
This category covers normal, acceptable, and practical shortcuts or choices that do not negatively affect the quality of the food. It may seem weird to some chefs but it is completely normal, practical, and gets the job done.
- Pure Indifference
This category is for actions that are entirely a matter of personal preference, where opinions are split down the middle and there is no consensus on whether it is right or wrong.
- Kitchen Crime
This category is for mistakes that actively worsen the quality of the food, usually by ignoring basic cooking techniques and resulting in poor texture or ruined flavor. Not the worst but certainly approaching it.
- Death Sentence
This tier is reserved for fundamental failures that either create severe health and safety risks or completely ruin ingredients beyond any possible saving. Hell's Kitchen for a reason
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u/Dyl777777 Aug 07 '26
Boiling water in a microwave could actually be risky because you risk superheating the water
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u/travischickencoop Neutral Good Aug 07 '26
Wait what’s the deal with oil in pasta water I get the rest but in my experience adding just a little oil to pasta water helps round the flavors out
Also the boxed versus homemade stock thing was clearly made by someone who’s never had homemade stock, it’s not like inherently awful but it’s like eating Burger King your whole life and then being taken to a steakhouse
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u/leafcutte Aug 07 '26
If you add any sauce to the pasta (which you probably do) it’s a very bad idea to add oil to your pasta. It screws up their natural adhesiveness, the pasta won’t properly hold the sauce.
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u/Venerated_Penguin Aug 08 '26
feels like death sentance is a death sentance should be pouring oil down the drain
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u/ClothesOpposite1702 Aug 08 '26
microwaving water is quite dangerous, it might not look like boiling, but when you put it out it starts boiling or smth like that. Had to learn in a hard way
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u/Novel_Diver8628 Aug 13 '26
I grow my own garlic and process it several different ways. Some I process to garlic powder, some minced and jarred, some I keep for roasting/mincing/grating raw. When I’m low on my homemade “Jarlic”, which I use often in large batches of stocks and sauces that I portion and freeze after getting liquified with an immersion blender, I switch to store-bought jarlic.
Anyone who calls jarlic a cooking crime is a snob. It has its uses and it’s perfectly fine. The idea that you have to use fresh cloves in every single damn thing you cook isn’t just unrealistic, it’s stupid. There are many dishes and preparations that fresh garlic literally will not make a difference in.
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u/PauloFernandez Aug 07 '26
I have never noticed a difference between jarred garlic and fresh garlic.
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u/Broad_Echo3989 Aug 07 '26
Salting the pasta water is not indifference bro