Any ideas why this recipe would direct me to pre-biol the water in a kettle before bringing it back to a boil in a pot on the stove top?
by brown_bagger
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Jillcametumbling81
It seems quite unnecessary.
Sometimes there will be recipes that tell us to preheat the oven and the oven isn’t even involved.
Jazstar
Cus it’s faster. I always boil my water in my kettle before pouring it into the pot. So much quicker. At least with aussie kettles, I know in the US electric kettles aren’t really a thing lol
beatricelaus
Because it’s faster?
UniversityAny755
The way I’ve always done it is to pour the boiling water over the bulgar in the pot you let it boil more for a minute then cover and turn down/off the burner.
CaptainBasketQueso
My best guess would be that when you’re talking about this small of a measurement, you want to be precise and not risk losing water to evaporation as it gradually heats and comes to a rolling boil.
Lemzy99
lol it’s such a British thing to whack the electric kettle on to speed up boiling of your pasta water and stuff I know so many people who do this haha
DiplomatIan
We do it regularly, even as Americans. (Who have lived a long time outside the US, granted.) Electric kettle heats much, much faster than a pot on a stove.
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Howthehelldoido
What is going on with the measurements? 3/4 or 1+ 1/2?
10 Comments
It seems quite unnecessary.
Sometimes there will be recipes that tell us to preheat the oven and the oven isn’t even involved.
Cus it’s faster. I always boil my water in my kettle before pouring it into the pot. So much quicker. At least with aussie kettles, I know in the US electric kettles aren’t really a thing lol
Because it’s faster?
The way I’ve always done it is to pour the boiling water over the bulgar in the pot you let it boil more for a minute then cover and turn down/off the burner.
My best guess would be that when you’re talking about this small of a measurement, you want to be precise and not risk losing water to evaporation as it gradually heats and comes to a rolling boil.
lol it’s such a British thing to whack the electric kettle on to speed up boiling of your pasta water and stuff I know so many people who do this haha
We do it regularly, even as Americans. (Who have lived a long time outside the US, granted.) Electric kettle heats much, much faster than a pot on a stove.
Electric kettles are a thing in other parts of the world: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yMMTVVJI4c)
This is unrelated but I did one box with hello fresh and canceled because I didn’t care for it and they have called me every single day for a month since then. Sometimes twice a day. I answered once and they offered me a bunch of discounts and I said no and they are still calling me.. this along with the AI recipes I don’t like this company at all. I understand peoples’ complaints lol.
What is going on with the measurements? 3/4 or 1+ 1/2?
What?