While cooking one day I noticed my pot of potatoes were drastically close to boiling over. Instead of frantically turning down the heat, a light bulb went off in my head. I remember reading in one of my cooking magazines that if you lay a wooden spoon across a pot of boiling water, it would prevent it from boiling over. Hmm.. lets try this.
It worked! Well, it mostly worked. It works best if you lay the wooden spoon onto the pot as soon as you start boiling. Once the starch boiled over the pot the initial time, it didn't happen again and I didn't adjust the heat settings.
I then tried it again, placing the spoon on the pot immediately and it worked like a charm!
|it didn't boil over after that|
|I placed the spoon on the pot from the start and it didn't boil over at all!|