I thought everyone knew this...but I guess not? Did you know to do this first? 🤷🏻‍♀️

My mom uses corn starch all of the time, especially during Thanksgiving for turkey gravy. She has celiac disease (so everything needs to be gluten free for her) and I have a dairy allergy so we're always substituting something when it comes to cooking.

Rather than using water you can also put aside a small amount of the sauce or soup to cool and then when you're ready mix the cornstarch into that instead.

One imp thing to note about cornstarch is you have to let it boil for a few mins after adding, that’s to cook the starch out. Otherwise it could taste too “starchy”. Another tip is that instead of water, use a liquid ingredient from your recipe. For example if you are cooking soup, use some cold stock to make the slurry. If you were making a cherry sauce, use some of the cold cherry juice, etc. this way no extra water is added.

Oh, that’s why I messed up my other recipes- I also just dumped it in my sauce like it was nothing, had no idea! Thank you so much!

in Poland every grandma or mom will teach you that haha

It also makes a mean porridge! Add milk to a pot with a couple spoonfuls of cornstarch (even though the milk is cold at this point we still dissolve it in a smaller recipient before adding it to the pot). You can mix in sugar, or a sweet chocolate mix and BAM! Delicious porridge or even pudding, depending on how much corn starch you add. We used to cook this a lot back home when we were kids 🇧🇷. It's a good way to fill up your stomach if you don't have a lot of food around and it's a nice, easy treat when you're craving something sweet, warm and converting 🥰

You can also dilute the cornstarch with whatever you’re cooking: broth, sauces, soup - spoon it over the cornstarch in the little bowl until dissolved

It's also good for greasy hair roots! Lol. I like to use corn starch in sauces, it's much easier than a roux for most dishes.

I do this a lot with pasta sauces that have a cream base. It definitely works!

Corn starch is also great to thicken up your cheap acrylic paints too!

Yes, mixing in cold water first is a must! Great tip!

Thank you Jeanelle for the cooking tip, much appreciated. My Mum does the same thing as you....👌☺💘☺

Idk if you tried Jamaican Food already but if you haven’t I highly recommend you give it a try. Although I don’t know too much about the cuisine Ik that what I’ve had is excellent.

Best way to thicken a sauce by far!👍

I feel like when it comes to thickening desserts, cornstarch leaves an empty flavor. Almost like it removes the base of the dish. Do you know what I mean?

Pretty amazing 👏 😍 💖 ✨

oh thank you so much for teaching this!

Now that I'm teaching my kids to cook I used this video as an example too. Thanks

I believe you can also use potato starch to thicken it. My mother uses it to thicken up curry if it is a bit thin or she keeps it like that to make curry udon! Its delicious! 😋

Ok this is fax I made gravy the other day and it was really good and it called for corn starch so I poured it in (diluted ofc) and it started thickening immediately it was really good!

Yeah....i remember it I was making manchurian and i just needed to thicken it...there r thickeners but it was late in night...i was craving them...i decided to use flour but instead ended up using corn flour....it was amazing.... Now i regularly use corn starch

Works way better than flour! I love it

I love this!! I do this all the time when I’m making sauce after cooking pork.

This is how you make any stew feel rich

Awesome. I was just looking for this info yesterday

Cool!

I use this tip all the time. My mom taught me this when I was a kid.

Also the best for making gravy 😋

Thank you 😊

Thanks Jeanelle, very cool.

You shouldn’t always rely on cornstarch to thicken sauces. The problem with that is it takes away the need to reduce your sauces. If you want to maximise the flavour of your liquid and thicken it, reduce it enough first then if needed; add corn starch

I eat the cornstarch by itself been doing it for over 21 years

Ad this to my list of things I thought I knew.

I don’t know why, but when I saw the cornstarch in the water… it kinda made my eyes teary. I used to live in the UK, me and my family are foreigners so it wasn’t easy and my dad couldn’t get a job (I think) but his friend helped him and gave him a job at this vape shop. We didn’t live like we do now. I remember my mom used to make this really good cereal, yknow that powdered milk that you add some water to to make milk? That, she had it heated up with some cereal, I tried replicating it but it was never the same. It tastes so good, she must’ve done something different but she never told me what it was. It may just be cereal but it’s my comfort food. Usually when I’m sick, my mom would make me that same cereal with coffee (I only started drinking coffee when I turned 12 so only then she made coffee). It just makes me feel really good. I’m sick right now, my head is burning up and my body is totally frigged up, she made it for me this morning and when I went to watch shorts I saw this. I know this is totally weird but it gives a sense of nostalgia.

Well, I use cornstarch all the time 😀 it's a common thing in my country ❤️

I use corn starch for sweet things and flour for savory spicy etc

Thanks 👍

I love cornstarch but its not that kind of accessible in our area, but we have corn flour thou

If you’re making a pan sauce try using gelatin. It sounds weird but once you try it the texture is unmatched

Thanks you 😂❤

My grandma scrapes potatoes, plantains "yuca" or "malanga* and adds it to the food to thicken it.

My mom taught me that trick a while back!

That Moment when i love your Videos but forgot to subscribe now i did it 😁

I've done this. 👍🏾

This is how my mom always made gravy. I was very confused by people who used flour.

You can also use rice flour for the same purpose. In india we are not to eating corn flour a lot so rice flour is something our stomach is used to

My mom does the same!

we always use it to thicken up our soups or sauces.

my dad does this too

I'm also Filipino so thats the only method we know of too. We don't really use flour to thicken sauces, it's always been corn startch.

Adam Ragusea has a great video where he goes over most forms of thickeners

I’d say a roux is better but whatever works for you

This is what my mom and aunt does to make the soup for nasi campur thicker 😋

My “friend “ just did that 😂

I first mix it in hot water otherwise it gets sticky and clumped up

Why did my mom never teach me this, I’ve just been sprinkling it in and trying to mix really fast... come on mom??? Do you not know this? If not, I gotta tell her.

In Europe we use it with every soup or sauce

You should try lotus seafood if you have one where you at

My mom always told me this

Thank you I finally found someone who dosent eat the corn stach

I do this all the time when my tteokbokki sauce is too thin 😂

Were you trying to make palabok? My mom always use cornstarch to thicken our palabok sauce !

Remember with corn starch it's needs boiled to become it's thickest so make sure you boil it

If I'm using one cup of chicken broth for my Cajun pasta how much cornstarch should I add to this because I'll be putting in my heavy cream 1 cup after

Does it affect the taste in any way though? Im currently trying to make this asian dish containing chicken and vegetables. Im supposed to make a sauce out of soy and cornstarch, but i always think it just tastes solely of soy, and im wondering if adding more starch would make the sauce "smoother".

If you add enough of it would it become a block of soup

What's the ratio of cornstarch to water?

What r ur thoughts abt sharing food

I make a home made Szechuan sauce and no matter how much slurry I put in, it doesn’t seem to thicken enough. I don’t wanna put more than 4 teaspoons worth cause it’ll ruin the taste. Any alternatives?

This is also why a lot of diyers use it to make clay!

Don't need to use the small amount of cold water either. Just take out a quarter cup of your soup, mix in the cornstarch into it. Since it's a small amount of soup, it'll be way easier to mix. Then mix the slurry into the rest of the soup, and you're done.

I use xantham gum

I'm a man that had failed to read instructions with the idea that I had watched mom do this a million times with simple gravy packets. Later in time I made the same mistake with corn starch

One question Is corn starch and corn flour same?

Why corn starch instead of flour ??

I use arrowroot to thicken

Idk if u get this or not but either way it’s ok so my story is I was making edible slime and it was so sticky until I added cornstarch.I know this is completely different for how ur using it

Does it take the taste away any? I always worry about that lol

Does it taste any weird

Me tooo!! Thickens my stews, plus a plain tablespoon to eat plain...lol 😆 🤣 😂 😹

What's the song?

If you put that I a cup and gave it to me I would:thanks for the milk

This is a very common technique in Pakistan, we do this with every Chinese sauce

OH GOSH I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS EARLIER i literally had just cooked a sweet and sour chicken which called for cornstarch to be added to thicken the sauce but I wasn’t aware of how I should use it and the instructions were a tad vague so it became a clumpy mess JFSIHEOAPA

I use cornstarch to thicken up my hot chocolate!

Corn starch slurry doesn’t keep soups thick for long, it usually goes back to watery after a few hours. A flour+butter roux is still the better option.

Cornstarch needs to be brought to a boil to get clear

I don’t like corn starch or potato starch because of the feeling on my fingers. I absolutely hate when it gets on my skin. Skin in crawling now.

Ok

Use curd.

i think your cooking palabok sauce? am i right.. also do u speak tagalog

Normal things that you get thought at five

I use milk

Forbidden milk

oh so you have to do that first 🤡 now i get it

Well damn, wish i watched this 30 minutes ago. My sauce is ruined 😂😂

I just notice how pretty she was l feel stupid 🥲

I can't even begin to describe my frustration when I see people just add cornstarch without slurrying it. Just like flour and baking soda/flour and the like, that stuff does clump and it DOES NOT taste good when you come across one of those bombs even after you are done cooking/baking. Only CERTAIN things and in certain ways can cornstarch be added without slurrying with no problem, but you really have to check.

It's called SLURRY