Have electric stove? Dread making potato salad or pasta in the summer? Kitchen get so hot and steamy you have to turn up the AC or fan, and make your dinner cold before the sweat has dried from your brow? Well, if you can bear the 7-10 minutes of boiling water, after you drain whatever it is you've been boiling, fill the now empty pot with cold water.
By PJ from LI, NY
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Cool like that one
Hmmm . . . I'm not sure about this one. I do the same in the winter for the opposite effect. I want to capture the warmth in the hot water so it will release it slowly after the stove it turned off.
I've been soaking up the heat from the burner for years during the summer with this trick. Works nicely.
I think this is a fabulous idea.
I have to make potato salad tomorrow - I'll certainly give this a try.
Cooling down the stove really helps especially when the temperature outside is 102 degrees like yesterday. To speed up the cooling process, I added some ice cubes to the water in the pot.
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