This first one is a bit silly to lighten the mood. Although this information isn’t life changing, hopefully it’s still useful for your culinary journey! Throw Pasta at a Wall - If It Sticks, It’s Done Of course, cooking myths and misconceptions are a lot less detrimental to society - if you believe one your life has maybe been inconvenienced a bit, and it’s not like you voted for a guy that looks like if khaki pants learned to smile. Don’t believe the memes or what your friend of a friend said. But just like when you’re deciding which candidate to vote for, or trying to determine what is real or fake news - you should do some of your own damn research. You trust the people in your life, so you take their word without doing any additional research. If you’re learning to cook, you’ll find that there is a lot of misinformation out there! Maybe your Mom taught you that adding a potato to oversalted soup or stew will absorb the salt, or you heard from a friend that salt makes water boil faster.