{"id":3151,"date":"2006-05-16T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T04:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2006-05-16T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T20:07:58","slug":"salting-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/salting-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Salting the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve had any cooking training, you almost certainly were told to salt the water in which you cook vegetables. It turns out that, objectively\/scientifically, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you do. <!--more-->The salt doesn&#8217;t <del datetime=\"2006-05-16T20:05:33+00:00\">make the water boil faster<\/del> raise the boiling point by any amount that makes a difference. It doesn&#8217;t make the vegetables retain their color any better. It doesn&#8217;t make them taste any differently than if you salt them afterward. In spite of that, I continue to salt the water in which I cook vegetables. I feel like I&#8217;ve done something wrong if I don&#8217;t. I know &#8220;better,&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t mean I can comfortably do it. <\/p>\n<p>Learning to cook isn&#8217;t just a matter of learning the science of cooking. It is also and, in fact more so, learning the behaviors of a cook and the lore of cooking. It is becoming part of a community of practice. Almost (can I delete that &#8220;almost&#8221;?) everything we do we do as part of a community of practice. Even science is a community of practice, with specific language and expected behaviors that are not absolutely correlated with the objective facts about science, laboratories, etc. In other words, even scientists &#8220;salt the water before cooking.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>However, not everything members of a group do is necessarily one of its practices. Salting the water before cooking is a practice of cooking; throwing spilled salt over your shoulder isn&#8217;t, even though a significant number of cooks do. Even they recognize that it is, instead, something outside the practices of cooking. <\/p>\n<p>So, what kinds of practices make us uniquely who we are as Mormons? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve had any cooking training, you almost certainly were told to salt the water in which you cook vegetables. It turns out that, objectively\/scientifically, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-mormon-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}