Garlic

Every once in a while, a cooking hack comes along that changes your culinary life.

Take, for instance, a chef’s trick of running an egg through a sieve before poaching it to prevent those annoying wispy tendrils, or the time-honoured restaurant practice of parboiling rice to make speedy risotto whenever you like.

The downside is that some would-be “hacks” can end up using more effort than the “slow” version of prep, however. (I am still hurt by how inefficient and messy the supposedly game-changing garlic crusher I once bought proved to be.)

Perhaps that’s why Redditor u/Art_Z_Fartzche asked the members of r/Cooking to share the ”popular cooking ‘hacks’ that you’ve found don’t work, are bad advice, or are more trouble than they’re worth?”

Here are some of the most popular replies:

1) “Taking the tops off of strawberries with a straw.”

“It takes just as much time and effort [as manually removing them], and just dirties up more plastic for no reason.”

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2) “Peeling garlic by shaking the cloves in a jar or bowl with a lid.”

“It only ever half-works, and you still end up having to peel them the old-fashioned way. Waste of time.”

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3) “Adding oil to the water........

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