Learn to cook and your journey will expose you to all manner of tips and tricks for getting

things done in the kitchen, including some things you should never do because reasons,

and some things you should always do because reasons.

Today we've got a roundup of many of the most popular cooking myths, things that you

should or shouldn't supposedly do, and that you might have been doing wrong for a long

time.

Cooking myths are today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Craig Good from Skeptoid.com.

Cooking myths.

One of the things that distinguishes homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom is that

we are the species that cooks.

This millennia of growing, hunting, preparing, processing, and cooking our food has produced

a lot of folk wisdom.

Some is based on solid science, and some is just plain made up.

Because preparing food should be rewarding, fun, and safe, grab an apron and join me in

the kitchen.

See if you can guess which cooking tips are myth?

True or somewhere in between?

There's no way we can cover them all, but we'll try to catch a lot of common ones.

Let's start with some myths about equipment and technique, and then march through the

pantry by category.

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