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How long to cook brussels sprouts

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

Your time 4:30

How are they prepped?

Halving genuinely halves the distance heat has to travel. Whole sprouts take much longer than their size suggests.

How do you want them?

Fully tender is right if they are going on to be roasted or fried.

How to tell without a timer

Into the ice bath now.

Straight into ice water when the timer ends. Sprouts left in the hot pot keep cooking.

How it goes

  1. Into water at a rolling boil. Have the ice bath ready.
Every combination, as a table
How are they prepped?How do you want them?Time
Quartered Still crisp 2:25
Quartered Crisp-tender 3:25
Quartered Fully tender 5:15
Halved Still crisp 3:10
Halved Crisp-tender 4:30
Halved Fully tender 6:45
Whole, small Still crisp 4:15
Whole, small Crisp-tender 6:00
Whole, small Fully tender 9:00
Whole, large Still crisp 5:15
Whole, large Crisp-tender 7:30
Whole, large Fully tender 11:15

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.

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