My budget stew took so long to thicken I nearly ordered pizza out of spite

A potato works faster than cornstarch, @the_david.

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Oh man, I feel that wait in my bones! I read a cooking blog that said letting a stew boil with the lid off is the old-school trick. It lets all that extra water steam away way faster than just simmering. I tried it last month with a beef stew and it went from soup to thick in like twenty minutes. Saved me from a very grumpy frozen pizza dinner.

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the_david7mo ago

Throw a little cornstarch slurry in there next time, works like magic. Almost ordered pizza myself last week waiting on gravy.

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