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beetroot/boiled

How long to boil beetroot

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 40:00
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This is measured from the boil. Bringing a pan up from cold adds roughly ten minutes on top and varies with your pan and your hob, which is why the app asks you to say when it gets there rather than guessing.

How big are they?

Whole or cut?

Whole and unpeeled keeps the colour in the beetroot instead of in the water.

How to tell without a timer

Cold water and the skins slip off in your hands. Wear gloves unless you want pink ones.

How it goes

  1. Cold water, lid on, full heat. Tell Sensei when it reaches a rolling boil.
  2. Rolling boil, skins on, stalks trimmed to an inch.
Every combination, as a table
How big are they?Whole or cut?From the boil
Baby / golf ball Whole, skin on 29:30
Baby / golf ball Halved 20:45
Medium / tennis ball Whole, skin on 40:00
Medium / tennis ball Halved 28:00
Large Whole, skin on 51:30
Large Halved 36:00

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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