• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It would take a lot of salt to have a large noticeable difference, but I like to believe it helps.

      As a very loose and unreliable rule of thumb for every 5% salt you raise the water’s boiling point by about a degree, but anything more than 2500 mg is over your daily recommended value: each cup of water is 236,588 mg so 5% of 2 cups water would be 23,658 mg.

      But it’s not wrong to say adding salt helps cook rice, just not by a noticeable amount.