Chef Q&A: Cooking Myths, Kitchen Rules, and Why Wrong Can Taste Right

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Episode notes

🎙️ EP153 – More audience questions. More proof that breaking rules and ignoring common sense sometimes makes food more delicious. From soggy chicken skin to overcooked pasta, sometimes wrong tastes right.

🎧 Topics Covered in This Episode

🍗 Soggy Chicken Skin — Hainanese chicken, hot-water trick, poached bounce

🌿 Ugly Greens — Army-green spinach

🥧 Recipes That Shouldn’t Work — Boiled-butter citrus curd, silky and perfect

🍝 Overcooked Pasta? — 25-minute spaghetti, risotto-style al dente

🥬 Wok-Fried Salad — Tossing mixed greens hot and fast

🎭 Trends We’d Kill (and Keep) — Gimmicks out, bistro classics forever

😭 When Food Hits Emotion —  ... 

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