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the half-commitment of cooking, boiling things only until they agree to finish later
means To partially cook something by boiling it briefly, so it can finish cooking by another method later.
from From the Old French 'parboillir,' from Late Latin 'perbullire' — 'per-' (thoroughly) plus 'bullire' (to boil), so it originally meant to boil completely. English speakers then misread 'par-' as 'part' and the word flipped its own meaning, drifting to 'boil partly.' A rare case of a word arguing itself backwards: born meaning 'all the way,' now living as 'only halfway.'
- name origin
- From Latin meaning thoroughly boil, ironically now means partly
- freezer trick
- Parboiling vegetables before freezing kills enzymes that ruin them
- crispy potatoes
- Roughed-up parboiled edges become impossibly crunchy when roasted
- rice industry
- Parboiled rice keeps nutrients locked inside the grain
- speed hack
- Slashes oven and grill time dramatically without sacrifice
blanching vegetables — cooks carrots, broccoli 2-3 minutes in boiling water before grilling or freezing
potatoes for roasting — parboiled 10-15 minutes in uk sunday roasts to achieve crispy outsides at 220°c
pasta water technique — italian cooks parboil pasta 2 minutes under al dente before finishing in sauce pan