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Recipe for Disaster is Slate’s column about the things recipes get wrong—and how to fix them. If you’ve noticed a recipe annoyance, absurdity, or outright lie, file your complaint here and we will investigate!
A while back, I was tasked by the Kitchen with testing and rating six of the most popular online recipes for lentils. Though I already knew the basics of lentil cookery, I knew very little about how to actually make them delicious, so I was excited to sink my teeth into this assignment. And as I reached the finish line, having tested and tasted recipes that drew on a range of culinary traditions, two surprising things happened: One, I…
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