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3 good reasons why you shouldn’t cook at night
In the evening, too, it is better not to get up to the stove – even doctors agree with this popular omen. It looks like this is not just superstition!
In general, many popular signs and all sorts of superstitions were associated with cooking in Russia. Girls who got into their husband’s house, for example, were forbidden to cook food until she settled down here as a hostess. They also believed that one should not cry, sing and even kiss next to the stove or stove – supposedly the element of fire is so powerful that the emotions experienced next to it can be transmitted to food or even change the atmosphere in the house.
About nighttime cooking, people who believe that at night it is impossible to look out the windows, and indeed to meddle in the street, were afraid to even hint. And only the most “courageous” housewives undertook to put the dough at night in order to prepare pies for the family in the morning. Why does this sign exist and how logical is this prohibition?
Cook and eat right away
Food prepared for future use is a salvation for many housewives. Indeed, today rare women can only afford to be a mother, wife and home cook – everyone also has a job. Therefore, they cook with several pans at once, and when there will be free time. Sometimes this time is only at night. Another thing is the benefits of such food.
Even if it is broccoli soup, with repeated heating such products lose their “magic” properties. American experts from the FDA generally believe that fish and meat products (cutlets, for example) should not be reheated more than once. So the healthiest food is the one that is just cooked and eaten right away.
If you follow this rule, then those who are used to cooking looking at night should also have supper after midnight. And here is a new difficulty – before going to bed, nutritionists advise not to overeat.
The feeling of hunger spoils the dish
There is another argument against nightly cooking – those who finish work late get up at the stove at night, which means they cook in a hurry, because after a hard day you always want to eat. The feeling of hunger makes you rush and forget about the quality of food. With this approach, the dish comes out not very tasty and poorly cooked – undercooked or overcooked.
There is only one advice here – find a way to have a snack a couple of hours before bedtime, postpone cooking until the daytime, or use healthy foods that can be cooked quickly enough, such as frozen vegetables.
Night chef is a tired chef
A more mystical explanation of this theory says that the energy of the person who cooked is transmitted to the dish. In Indian temples, for example, cooks are a special class. Only priests are allowed to cook food, whose heads are free from evil thoughts.
At the end of the day, we lose a lot of energy, only sleep helps to restore them. And if, instead of going to bed, we stand at the stove, our thoughts are likely to be about anything other than what our hands are doing. We will scroll through the events of the day in our heads, we can fantasize about how it would be worthwhile to act in a given situation.
If the thoughts are not positive, anger, disappointment, then this, again, if you believe the theory, will be passed on to food. It is unlikely that anyone will consciously want to share their feelings of disappointment through the soup. Although, of course, this is just a theory.