Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoTIL if you want to make a powdered drink like hot chocolate or cup-a-soup, add a tiny amount of water to the powder and make a paste before adding the hot water to avoid clumping.message-square32fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1262arrow-down1message-squareTIL if you want to make a powdered drink like hot chocolate or cup-a-soup, add a tiny amount of water to the powder and make a paste before adding the hot water to avoid clumping.Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Carrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish65•9 months agoSame technique as making and integrating a cornstarch slurry to thicken a soup.
minus-squareØπ3ŕlinkfedilinkEnglish36•9 months agoIf you add hot water to corn starch, you’re gonna have a bad time. And clumps. (Use cold water to make the paste, then add that to the heated liquid you want to thicken via corn starch, FYI.)
minus-square@Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-29 months agoNow the real fun is doing 5 gallons of soup, breaking out the industrial immersion blender and xanthum gum. Blender > clumps.
minus-squarecowfodderlinkfedilinkEnglish12•9 months agoIn my experience 5 gallons of soup will need about 15 picograms of xanthan gum! That shit is powerful!
minus-square@RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•9 months agoAdd starch to cold water to make gravy. Add starch to hot water to make dumplings.
minus-square@gmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•9 months agois there nothing Americans won’t add corn products to?
minus-square@Carrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoI was going to say gasoline, but actually no, not really.
Same technique as making and integrating a cornstarch slurry to thicken a soup.
If you add hot water to corn starch, you’re gonna have a bad time. And clumps.
(Use cold water to make the paste, then add that to the heated liquid you want to thicken via corn starch, FYI.)
Now the real fun is doing 5 gallons of soup, breaking out the industrial immersion blender and xanthum gum.
Blender > clumps.
In my experience 5 gallons of soup will need about 15 picograms of xanthan gum! That shit is powerful!
How does that improve the slurry method above?
Add starch to cold water to make gravy.
Add starch to hot water to make dumplings.
is there nothing Americans won’t add corn products to?
I was going to say gasoline, but actually no, not really.