KOMPAS.com – Cooking is a fun activity, but let’s face it, it can be quite messy, especially when using cooking oil.
Oil splashes not only dirty the stove, but can also damage clothing and even cause minor burns on the skin.
However, there are simple tricks to reduce oil splashes when cooking that you can practice.
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The method is to put the ingredients in a heated pan, namely a little salt. This will reduce splashes.
It should be noted, this trick is not for frying in a lot of oil (deep frying), but is more suitable for use when sautéing or frying ingredients such as meat, fish, or vegetables with a little oil to add additional flavor to the dish.
Test adding salt to prevent oil splashes
The following are the test results of this method when frying several foods:
Sausage
When you put the sausage into the pan, both salted and unsalted oil immediately splattered. But over time, differences begin to appear.
Salted oil will splash much less than unsalted oil.
While not completely splatter-free, using salt made cleanup much easier and saved me from minor burns from oil splatters.
Peppers and mushrooms
Oil splashes usually occur due to water reacting with hot oil. Water and oil don’t mix, so when the water evaporates below the surface of the oil, splashes occur.
paprika illustrationWhen sautéing peppers and mushrooms, the difference between salted and unsalted oil is very clear.
Oil without salt immediately splashes as soon as the vegetables are added, while oil with salt only starts to splash when stirring the vegetables. In fact, the splashes are not as high or as extensive as oil without salt.
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Meatball
Less salty oil splashes. But when cooking the meatballs, the salty oil barely splashed at all. While the unsalted oil continues to splash all the time.
As a result, salted oil makes cooking more comfortable without splashing hot oil on your arms or clothes.
Grilled chicken
This trick is less effective for roast chicken in the oven, because it doesn’t cook with a lot of liquid. When cooking grilled chicken, oil splashes still occur as usual.
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Using aluminum foil to cover the chicken for half the cooking time is still the best way to reduce splatter in the oven.
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