levelwave > wrote in message >...
> Peter Aitken wrote:
>
> > There are many "kitchen myths" that you hear regularly - ideas about cooking
> > and food that are known to be false but seem to have a life of their own.
> > For example, "searing meat seals in the juices." I thought it would be fun
> > and perhaps useful to create a web page that debunks these myths. If you
> > have any favorites I'd love to hear them. If possible, please include some
> > information or references to back up your "myth-busting" opinion. I want
> > this web page to be objective with research and citations backing it up.
>
>
> A drop of oil in the pasta water keeps the pasta from sticking...
>
> Chili doesn't have beans in it...
>
> ~john!

Not so much cooking but cooking related. Add egg shells to you
garbage disposal to sharpen the blades. Any understanding of what
happens down there would debunk this myth. Cook pork till it is well
done to kill of the virus that causes some type of worm (sorry can't
remember what the name is and I am not about to go search the internet
and come back to give you all the name just so that I may have a
facade of intellegence, you all know who you are). All I have to
support this is what Alton Brown said.