You, of course, know the correct answers to many children's puzzles. And how do you answer this question: "What can be cooked, but not eaten?"
We are sure that a light flashed before your eyes. But this is from a completely different riddle - about a pear that cannot be eaten in any way, despite the fact that it hangs. Then, memories of all sorts of exotic cuisines, such as Korean, with boiled and stewed dogs, Vietnamese and Chinese, in which it is customary to eat anything that can walk, crawl, swim or fly on its own, probably flashed through.
And you also probably remembered the favorite dish of the ancient Vikings - six months ago, rotten shark meat. But all this, apparently, is edible, since the people who use such
exotic dishes live and even prosper.
And the correct answer to the question of what can be cooked, but you can’t eat, not even one - lessons, concrete mortar, bedding, clothes, glue or surprise. All this is really being prepared, but it is difficult to attribute them to edible things. With the exception of a surprise, which may turn out to be a cake, or homework, if you were asked to cook a salad at a homework lesson. Especially corrosive skeptics will not fail to recall the fact that in hungry times people consumed food and glue, in particular, wallpaper and casein, since they were made from starch and skim milk. But this, as they say, is already an extreme option.
But young husbands and their equally young wives are quite capable of giving other answers to the question of what can be cooked, but not eaten. They may laugh, remembering how the bride and groom, trying to feed her fiancé with breakfast, mixed up the ingredients, and instead of salt sprinkled fried eggs with soda. Or, like a young husband, having decided to give his soul mate a surprise, he prepared pancakes, plunk into the dough instead of a teaspoon of the same soda - a tablespoon. All this can really be prepared, but not eaten, since even the greatest love is not able to overcome the ugly taste of the resulting dishes.
Yes, there are culinary failures for everyone, but not all can fix them. And even such a seemingly ordinary occurrence as overshot is often a real tragedy.
But it is quite easy to fix. Of course, only if you really slightly oversalt the dish. But they did not throw an almost complete packet into it or did not fry the chicken in rotten fat. In the latter cases, to the question of what can be cooked, but can not be eaten, feel free to answer: "My culinary delights."
How to fix the situation with overshot? If you salt the soup, then pour a little rice in a gauze bag, throw it into the broth. Salted meat dishes are saved by completely unsalted gravy, but if such a nuisance happened with vegetables, then it is easier to process them in mashed potatoes, adding a few new ingredients that are completely unsalted, as you know.
You can read about how to fix burnt dishes in any book on home economics in the “Little Tricks” section. And let your motto be: spoiled - correct, cook and eat!
Only, please, not a solution. And not glue. Good luck in life and in cooking!