Do you know what you can cook, but you can not eat?

Of course, you know the right answers to many children's riddles. And how do you answer this question: "What can you cook, but you can not eat?"

We are sure that before your eyes flashed a light bulb. But this is quite another riddle - about a pear that can not be eaten in any way, despite the fact that it hangs. Then for certain memories of all sorts of exotic cuisine, such as Korean, with cooked and stewed dogs, Vietnamese and Chinese, for which it is customary to eat everything that can walk, crawl, swim or fly on their own. And also you probably remembered about the favorite dish of the ancient Vikings - half a year ago, rotting shark meat. But all this, apparently, is edible, as the people who use such exotic dishes, are alive and even prosper.

And the correct answer to the question about what can be cooked, but you can not eat, not even one - lessons, mortar of concrete, bed, clothing, glue or surprise. All this is really being prepared, but it is difficult to attribute them to edible things. With the exception of a surprise that may turn out to be a cake, or a homework, if you were asked to prepare a salad in the home economics lesson. Especially cautious skeptics will not fail to recall the fact that in times of famine people used food and glue, in particular, wallpaper and casein, as they were prepared from starch and skimmed milk. But this is, as the saying goes, quite an extreme option.

But young husbands and their equally young wives are quite capable of giving other answers to the question of what can be cooked, but can not be eaten. They laughingly can recall how the newlywed, trying to feed her fortified breakfast, mixed the ingredients, and instead of salt sprinkled eggs with soda. Or, as a young husband, deciding to present his half a surprise, cooked pancakes, plunging into the dough instead of a teaspoon of the same soda - the dining room. It's all really possible to cook, but you can not eat, because even the greatest love can not overcome the nasty taste of the resulting dishes.

Yes, culinary failures happen at all, but not all of them can correct. And even such a seemingly ordinary phenomenon, like brine, is often a real tragedy. But it's quite easy to fix it. Of course, only if you really slightly overdid the dish. And they did not throw an almost full pack in it or fry the chicken on foul fat. In recent cases, the question of what can be cooked, but can not be eaten, safely answer: "My culinary delights."

How to fix the situation with brine? If you overcook the soup, then put some rice in the gauze sack, throw it into the broth. Salted meat dishes saves completely unsalted gravy, but if such a trouble happened with vegetables, they are easier to process in puree, adding a few new ingredients, absolutely unsalted, as you know.

About how to fix burnt dishes, you can read in any book on housekeeping in the section "Little tricks." And let your motto be: spoiled - corrected, cooked and eaten!

Only, please, not a solution. And do not glue. Good luck in life and cooking!