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Why to throw cucumber slices into a saucepan while boiling potatoes: a trick from experienced housewives
17.11.2023 11:58
Some experienced housewives perform an unexpected action when preparing boiled potatoes.
They take a cucumber, cut it into slices and throw a couple of the resulting pieces directly into boiling water.
Despite its apparent senselessness, this trick helps to achieve one interesting result.
This way, the side dish turns out much better.
The essence of a culinary life hack
The presence of cucumber slices in the pan reduces the risk of the potatoes boiling over, reports MOS SMI .
If there is cucumber juice in the water in which the nightshade is located, then the tubers will definitely reach readiness and will not boil over.
The potato will retain its shape. At the same time, there will be no "cheesiness" in it.
Of course, after the side dish is ready, the cucumbers should be thrown away. The pieces of the vegetable should be thrown into boiling water only to improve the consistency of the potatoes and bring them to full readiness.
Lemon Trick
There is another way to keep the shape of potatoes. You can use lemon slices.
Citrus juice also prevents the root vegetable from boiling over. But this life hack can only be used when cooking potatoes in their skins.
