Kitchen Science: 5 Tips to make food cook faster ⏩

Food in cooking pot

Science touches every dimension of our life and being aware of it can improve our lives in many ways like saving energy, efforts and money. Food is an important aspect of our life and kitchen plays a dominant role in how the food finally reaches our plate. Science in the kitchen is a useful field to explore as lately more people are entering the kitchen to take control of the food they eat and to have improved understanding of cooking process. These tips will be useful for anyone who spends time in the kitchen. Here are the 5 tips everyone can use to make food to cook faster.

The 5 tips are

1. Adding salt
2. Using heavier lid
3. Having tall and narrow pot
4. Type of cookware
5. Stirring food

We may be already familiar with these methods by word of the mouth from someone or from our own experience but it is also better to understand the “why” behind it.

1. Adding salt

Adding salt while cooking food with water increases the boiling point of water and hence more heat can be added to water. This is called elevation of boiling point. Thus it lessens down the time required for cooking. Moreover, salt also penetrates the food, breaking them down faster speeding up the cooking…