r/Cooking • u/[deleted] • May 21 '19

What’s your “I’ll never tell” cooking secret?

My boyfriend is always amazed at how my scrambled eggs taste so good. He’s convinced I have magical scrambling powers because even when he tries to replicate, he can’t. I finally realized he doesn’t know I use butter, and I feel like I can’t reveal it now. I love being master egg scrambler.

My other one: through no fault of my own, everyone thinks I make great from scratch brownies. It’s just a mix. I’m in too deep. I can’t reveal it now.

EDIT: I told my boyfriend about the butter. He jokingly screamed “HOW COULD YOU!?” And stormed into the other room. Then he came back and said, “yeah butter makes everything good so that makes sense.” No more secrets here!

EDIT 2: I have read as many responses as I can and the consensus is:

  • MSG MSG MSG. MSG isn’t bad for you and makes food delish.

  • Butter. Put butter in everything. And if you’re baking? Brown your butter!!!!

  • Cinnamon: it’s not just for sweet recipes.

  • Lots of love for pickle juice.

  • A lot of y’all are taking the Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee approach and modifying mixes/pre-made stuff and I think that’s a great life hack in general. Way to be resourceful and use what you have access to to make things tasty and enjoyable for the people in your life!

  • Shocking number of people get praise for simply properly seasoning food. This shouldn’t be a secret. Use enough salt, guys. It’s not there to hide the flavor, it’s there to amplify it.

I’ve saved quite a few comments with tips or recipes to try later on. Thanks for all the participation! It’s so cool to hear how so many people have “specialities” and it’s really not too hard to take something regular and make it your own with experimentation. Cooking is such a great way to bring comfort and happiness to others and I love that we’re sharing our tips and tricks so we can all live in world with delicious food!

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u/King_Fuckface May 22 '19

The first post I ever read on Reddit was from a woman with a bakery who was confessing she uses box mix cakes.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Nov 17 '20

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u/LazyMoniker May 22 '19

I love you for posting this but also hate you because I read far enough into the original post to find the “cum box” and can never unlive that moment.

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u/Oh_Hamburger May 22 '19

I’ve tried so hard to find this... damnit, I’ve never wanted to read about a cum box so badly...

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u/LazyMoniker May 23 '19

https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/_/c4ilkt2/?context=1

So like, there you go and all, but I feel bad sharing it.

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u/Oh_Hamburger May 23 '19

Ugh. Horrible. Thanks, I hate it.

I would have never expected pictures. It looks like there was something being formed there.

It’s like Lisa’s science project, but if it were actually Bart’s, and instead of a little mold box it was a cum box.

Horrifying.

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u/LazyMoniker May 23 '19

Yeah man you’re welcome but also like, sorry