What's your secret ingredient that makes your version of a common dish better than anyone else's?

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 244 points –

Mine probably isn't that secret these days, but almost every sauce I add nutritional yeast to. Curry, chilli, bolognese, it just makes them all better.

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A (1) teaspoon might be used as a measurement. 1/32 of a Teaspoon is asinine.

Admittedly, yeah. Technically in the US’s stupid system that should be “a half pinch.”

A pinch being 1/16 teaspoon.

Lol, of course they have a name for it

Are all those recipes that call for a "pinch of this" or a "dash of that" suddenly making more sense to you?

I just thought it meant "a bit", and it basically does because noone can really measure a 16th of a teaspoon

I knew dash and pinch, I didn’t know tad, smidgen, or drop. Fascinating.

That's not a teaspoon. I didn't say you couldn_t measure arbritrary amounts of stuff, just eyeballing a 16th of a teaspoon is not something you can do accurately

Look i don't know what your dumb ass is on about, you can't eyeball the amount if you use milliliters either.

They literally make the spoons for measuring it.

what the fuck are you talking about? They didn't make teaspoons for measurement purposes... It's right there in the name.