It turns out you've been cooking incorrectly: how to actually cook eggs, sausages, pasta

It often happens that even such a simple culinary procedure as cooking eggs, sausages or pasta does not end up as desired.

The most common mistakes in this matter are undercooking or, on the contrary, overcooking.

Yulia Arkhipova , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti and a chef, spoke about how these products should actually be prepared so that the end result is “what you need.”

Sausages

You can cook it in film, and you definitely shouldn't remove the natural casing, but you should pierce it with a fork. You can remove the artificial casing if you wish.

It is also possible to rinse the sausages with water. Although this process will not change anything.

In other words, we take the product out of the refrigerator and place it in cold water (it should completely cover it).

If you put sausages in boiling water, the casing may burst.

By the way, you need to boil the sausages in boiling water for about 20 seconds from the moment it boils. If frozen, keep them for 5-7 minutes.

Eggs

The main thing to understand here is that the longer the egg is boiled, the more sulfides appear (they give the yolk a grayish-green tint).

Therefore, it is recommended to boil eggs for a maximum of ten minutes.

The optimal time for boiling a hard-boiled egg is 9 minutes after the water boils; for a soft-boiled egg – 3 minutes; for a soft-boiled egg – 1.5 minutes.

Pasta

Chefs recommend: to get perfect al dente pasta, you need to cook the pasta for 6-7 minutes.

If after this they are still hard, you need to extend the process by half a minute.

Well, in general, the cooking time of pasta depends on its type, thickness, shape, freshness (recommendations regarding cooking time are usually placed on the product packages).

If there are no recommendations, then we focus on the marking (division by numbers, most often number 6 is used, they are cooked for about 9 minutes).

Experts advise cooking the pasta in a large pot of salted water, stirring constantly to prevent it from sticking together.

For reference

Boiling (cooking) is one of the most common types of thermal processing of food products by heating in a boiling liquid (for example, in water, milk, broth) or in an atmosphere of saturated steam.