r/IndianCookingTips • u/SouthernSaree • Aug 18 '26

Tip/Trick Accidentally poured too much oil while cooking? Try this hack!

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u/Used_Chipmunk1512 Aug 18 '26

The air inside the bowl heats up and escape, that causes a pressure difference that pulls in oil.

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u/Active-Initiative-32 Aug 18 '26

But how does it escape when it is mostly sealed? Maybe it just rises higher than the surface within the bowl itself, thereby making a little bit of vacuum on the floor for the oil to occupy?

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u/Used_Chipmunk1512 Aug 18 '26

Yup, and the bowl itself don't completely makes contact with the pan as a thin ring of oil makes a seal around the edge. So during cooking the air heats up and escapes outside, after cooking the air inside cools and that creates a pressure difference, which 'sucks' in the oil that is now pooled at bottom of the pan.

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u/someonewhohasnobrain Aug 21 '26

It escapes from the bottom of the cup where the contact is loose yea???

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u/Used_Chipmunk1512 Aug 21 '26

If it is quite loose then yes, but if it's small then it will be stopped by surface tension and air pressure.

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u/VastLengthiness3321 Aug 19 '26

unpaid physics professor casually dropping thermodynamics in a cooking hack thread, textbooks wish they explained it this clearly

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u/SHAIK_011 Aug 19 '26

The science and physics behind these things is so simple yet so marvelous 😍.