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If you burn something while cooking(just a little), how do you get rid of the burnt smell if you don’t want to throw the whole thing away.
Please answer for both sweet and savory, like both for curries and items like kheer,halwas. In kheer milk tends to get burnt quickly and normally you have to stir a lot while making kheer and the burnt part sticking to bottom gets scraped and ruins the taste.
Hope someone can help cos it has been happening to me a lot lately..dunno why hintGShint :halo:
of all the things , you had to ask the most difficult question, now i will have to go hunt the answer , unless some nice GS soul knows the answer to this one
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Ok . I called up all my aunties and asked them the question and one of them told me that she uses potatoes …
Like what ever has gotten burned , just take about 3-4 large potatoes , wash them and without peeling them just cut them in large quarter pieces and place them in the pot , cover and continue to cook the dish on very very low heat … let that be for a good 5-8 minutes , then remove lid and taste the dish a bit , if the smell has reduced and you need to further reduce it , let the potatoes in for a few more minutes …dont forget to keep the lid tightly on the pot.
If you do not want to throw it then eat the remaining portion ? If it was meant for guests make another serving. You do not want to serve food with burnt food smell/flavor and leave a bad taste and bad impression in their minds forever.
There is no way you can get rid of the smoke flavor out of any dish , sweat or otherwise. If anybody think they can then they have some problem with their sense of smell and sense of taste, period.
I have a long story to tell about this phenomenon , but I will tell it some other time.
give it to the hubby as is...tell him u were multi-tasking the cooking , cleaning, laundry, ironing, mopping, dusting etc - all for him to come home a beautiful home.
When somethng like kheer burns, then take it off the flame very carefully and take of the first few layers into a separate pot .. and leave the burnt part behind … make sure you havnt stirred it at all … then add saffron and more almonds to the taken out kheer and the smell will reduce considerably …
If the soups and stews get burnt , just add one or two teaspoon peanut butter and watch the burning smell disappear
In kheer milk tends to get burnt quickly and normally you have to stir a lot while making kheer and the burnt part sticking to bottom gets scraped and ruins the taste.
I don't know how to get rid of the burnt smell/taste. But to your comment on burnt kheer, to avoid kheer burning/sticking to the pot, coat the pot with some butter - this prevents it from sticking to pot (this is in addition to the butter you add to the milk while cooking it).
While you still have to stir it constantly while cooking/reducing the milk down, the butter significantly reduces the milk boiling and burning into the pot.
You can't get rid of the burnt smell. If you really really want to use what's left, change the pot first thing. Don't scrape the burnt part.. just change whatever liquid is left into a different pot.
For savory, Ive heard of using milk...someone I know used this to fix palak paneer...one of my favorite things and it tasted just fine. There was a slight hint but I noticed after she told me she had burnt it a little bit and asked if I could detect smoke.
i would buy a time machine and put it next to the kitchen. and then whenever i burn something, i’d hop in and go back to just before it burns. and stir. and stir. and stir.
either that, or learn how to control the flame on my stove. how do you people burn stuff? i never do.
as soon as you smell that food is burning, you instantly remove the pot from the burner, stop the temptation of stirring the food anymore and right way pour the food into another container, ideally into a ceramic bowl (dont use spoon to remove any more food from the original pot, just let the natural flow of food do its job, that will prevent andy stuck food to be transferred to the new pot). To further stop the cooking process, put the ceramic bowl (with lid off if possible) in a sink full of cold water.
, with so much knowledge to share on different food and household matters. Lets do a little weekly game .
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goes to make dinner, hope I don’t burn anything today
