People Reveal Cooking Secrets They Swore To Take To Their Graves In This Viral Online Thread (35 Pics)

People that I know with food pickyness, can detect that food being cooked or fried 3 rooms away.

LOL. My hubby hated all vegetables. Then he ate my cooking. "Wow, so good!" he said. Now he, too, is a vegetarian. I just didn't tell him he was eating things he thought he hated :-)

Unfortunately, my husband has a nose like a bloodhound and he can smell garlic a mile away. No garlic for me. Not even a tiny bit.

Says three cloves? I read 3 heads of garlic!

There's no such thing as too much garlic

You wouldn't need to tell me, I would be able to taste it. Absolutely despise ANYTHING with coffee in it.

It is a very delicious addition! Just be careful to disclose the ingredient at a party or event where you don’t know all the guests. As a person with a rare, but very real, allergy to coffee beans, I beg you to treat it like a nut. I have had some tasty, but scary experiences with this “secret ingredient”.

Add also rum! You'll thank me later!

Yum! Very common in Swedish baking. One of my favorite things are kärleksmums - directly translated to "love yummy" (kärlek=love and mums=yummy) 😂❤

Not if you hate coffee.

Hmmm.. *takes kotrs*

I know this one! A pinch of salt for anything sweet.

I don’t know about salt, but mixing the hot cocoa powder with milk is WAY better than mixing it with water

Reverse also, rarely you will find industrial food without sugar in it

A friend who was a chef, told me to put a pinch of salt in a cup of instant coffee, and it tastes like fresh percolated coffee. Fools everyone!

Usually flawless recipes, btw! Trust your boxes, especially if you're making something for the first time. Then you can modify the basic recipe with your own secrets, if you like.

My Grandma had an amazing Devil's food cake recipe with an amazing frosting to go with it. I had always assumed it was a family recipe. My Grandma informed me that it was from a Betty Crocker cookbook.

My grandmother's secret soup recipe. Mix a can of vegetable soup with a can of tomato soup. Bless her heart

The best oatmeal cookies are from the Quaker oats tub.

Pro tip: put some garlic heads in aluminum foil, add olive oil, salt and pepper. Seal it and bake it on low heat for 30 minutes (you can do it while cooking meat, so you don't waste space/electricity) and then peel it. It's amazing. Also goos for onions, peppers, chiles, or whichever vegetable you like.

What? Probiotics would gross people out? Oddly specific...

"Garlic is actually crack" lmfao

My husband insists that garlic," is a vegetable, NOT a seasoning". We eat a lot of garlic. Looove it!

The garlic amount is recipes is a starting point, you gotta feel it in your heart.

I asked my sister in law to make my wedding cake. I provided the box mix. She did the skillful decorating part. It looked wonderful and we got many compliments on how moist and good it was.

I really hope the cakes weren't really expensive since she did that. If I go to a bakery and pay a lot of money, I expect it to be baked by a real professional using "whole" ingredients. I would not consider myself a great baker or chef, so when I go out to buy something at a bakery or restaurant I expect it to be something that I would't be able to make as good myself.

White cake mixes in industrial quantities are sold by food-service suppliers

I worked for three years at a café'/bakery that's well known in my area for their GREAT cakes. You know what? The top and bottom layers of your Bavarian cream cake is from a giant, restaurant-sized bag of cake mix! (Now, the filling IS made in the store and is awesome!) If you order a chocolate or vanilla cake? It comes from that giant bag as well! Also, while I'm spilling the tea, the plain chocolate and vanilla buttercream cupcakes are ordered in bulk, kept frozen, and iced every day in the store.