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Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes (www.cubbyathome.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/cooking@lemmy.world
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During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because "a can" means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.

Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m curious, do you use the first line on your middle finger to measure water?

That’s how my grandmother taught us (pot and rice cooker).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    i used to use my index finger, now i'm all about different ratios of water to rice depending on the grain because i'm fancy. we've got a 25 lb bag of jasmine we're working through that i do 3water:2rice + 1T butter + 1/2 t salt.

    Current project is good garlic rice, so i've been sauteing up some garlic butter (for 1 cup of rice, 10 cloves in 4T butter, then adding all the cloves and 1T of the garlic butter), but it's not quite garlicky enough. I'm not sure whether i need more cloves or to make the butter more garlicky somehow.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You and my dad would get along great. He uses a whole bulb; his fried rice version has this toasted garlic flavor that’s just tasty.

    My SIL adds Better Than Bouillon Roasted Garlic with her garlic rice (I dont remember if it’s a teaspoon or tablespoon).

    Another version we learned was adding a combo of grated garlic and baked garlic; they both have different yet distinct flavors. That’s my aunt’s version and she uses chicken broth (Alton Brown’s recipe).

    Lol on the fancy… good for you. You’re right though, different kinds of rice require different amounts of water. We already got that lecture from our grandparents a looooong time ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    The problem with that is that the size of the pot changes the volume of water with a linear finger measure.

    Like for extremes if you had a test tube shaped pot with a foot of rice deep and only a finger depth of water is way different than a giant wide pot where grains area single layer and then a finger depth over top.

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