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cauliflower/blanched

How long to cook cauliflower

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

Your time 3:20

How big are the florets?

How do you want it?

Fully tender is the one to pick if it is going into a puree or a cheese sauce.

How to tell without a timer

Into the ice bath now.

Straight into ice water when the timer ends. Florets 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 big are the florets?How do you want it?Time
Small (bite-sized) Still crisp 1:45
Small (bite-sized) Crisp-tender 2:30
Small (bite-sized) Fully tender 3:50
Medium (two bites) Still crisp 2:20
Medium (two bites) Crisp-tender 3:20
Medium (two bites) Fully tender 5:00
Large (quartered head) Still crisp 3:00
Large (quartered head) Crisp-tender 4:20
Large (quartered head) Fully tender 6:30

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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