Every once in a while, a cooking hack comes along that changes your culinary life.

Take, for instance, a chef’s trick of running an egg through a sieve before poaching it to prevent those annoying wispy tendrils, or the time-honoured restaurant practice of parboiling rice to make speedy risotto whenever you like.

The downside is that some would-be “hacks” can end up using more effort than the “slow” version of prep, however. (I am still hurt by how inefficient and messy the supposedly game-changing garlic crusher I once bought proved to be.)

Perhaps that’s why Redditor u/Art_Z_Fartzche asked the members of r/Cooking to share the ”popular cooking ‘hacks’ that you’ve found don’t work, are bad advice, or are more trouble than they’re worth?”

Here are some of the most popular repli

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