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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