Kitchen Game: The Tricks They Never Wrote Down
Some of the best cooking knowledge never made it into cookbooks.
It lives in memory. In observation. In watching someone older in the kitchen who didn’t measure, didn’t explain — but somehow made food taste better every single time.
These are not recipes.
These are the small moves that change everything.
Welcome to Kitchen Game: The Tricks They Never Wrote Down.
Every week, we’ll share one practical piece of kitchen wisdom that turns ordinary meals into restaurant flavor.
Once you learn it, you won’t cook the same way again.
Kitchen Game #1 — The Vinegar Trick for Ground Beef
Most people brown ground beef and accept the greasy smell and heavy taste.
Add 1–2 teaspoons of vinegar while it’s halfway browned.
The acid tenderizes the meat, cuts the grease, and dissolves the browned bits back into the beef. You don’t taste vinegar. You taste deeper, cleaner beef.
How to do it
Brown 1 lb beef halfway
Add 1–2 tsp vinegar
Stir and finish cooking
Perfect for tacos, chili, spaghetti sauce, sloppy joes.
This wasn’t a recipe.
This was Kitchen Game.
Come back next week for another trick they never wrote down.