#cooking question

[owlee22]

Since you're supposed to salt pasta water, but you're supposed to boil ocean water to remove the salt.... if you were making pasta with ocean water would you still need to add salt? 🤔

[tj-crochets]

Hey! I have a cooking question. My dad wants to experiment with making his own barbecue sauce, but every recipe he’s found uses vinegar. I’m allergic to vinegar*. Do you think using a bit of lemon juice for the acidity of it would work, or is there something that would be a better substitute?  *I’m probably allergic. There’s no test for vinegar allergies, but I every time I eat anything with vinegar I get hives. Luckily, I hate the taste of vinegar.

[yellow-anonymous]

Does that sign say “Milk Pie”?

If so, what in blazes is a milk pie?

Because i’m relatively pretty certain that one cannot make a pie out of a milk-liquid.

[martinkhall]

Cooks of Tumblr I've got a question for you. I've got a recipe for a marinara sauce made of canned tomatoes. It calls for one can of crushed tomatoes and one can of whole tomatoes (equal size by volume) which it then calls for me to crush while in the pot cooking.

Now, I'm following the directions this time (aside from adding like four times as much fresh garlic and a bit of garlic powder. Three cloves for a whole pot of sauce is ridiculously little garlic. Especially when the sauce is going to be fighting the strongly flavored ravioli I bought). But materially is there a difference between using one can of crushed tomatoes and one can of whole tomatoes that I then crush or am I just adding an unnecessary step to making the sauce?

For the curious it's part of a larger recipe for a ravioli bake with sauce and cheese found on the back of a packet of cheese shredded cheese.

[baygeethefirst]

Cooking question: how do you get carbonara to work? I mean, no matter what I do, the eggs don't form a "rich sauce" for the pasta; they just become bits of scrambled egg mixed with herbs and pasta. It's irritating. I've tried using whole eggs, egg yolks only, saving and re-adding some of the pasta-cooking water, you name it.

[lemondifficult69]

Is a rice Krispy treat made of Goldfish crackers a thing? I'm gonna make it a thing.

[the-moth-of-all-time]

Anybody got a good, simple recipe for a gal who’s never had mushrooms to try a portobello? I’ve got a couple in the fridge staring me in the face

[chaoschronicler]

So question to anyone that cooks, do you keep the basil leaves in the dish you are serving or do you take it out once the dish is done cooking?