QuickCheck: Does a spoon in your cooking pot tenderise a meat dish?


THERE is an old wives tale popular in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines that states if you want to tenderise your meat, one of the best ways is to cook it with a metal spoon in the pot.

Seeing as Hari Raya Aidilfitri is here and many will be cooking their rendang, we thought it would be a good idea to ask if this was true. Is it?

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