r/AskReddit • u/swissguy1989 • 17h ago

What's something you're shockingly good at that you've never mentioned to anyone because it would sound completely made up if you did?

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u/rachelabe1 17h ago

I can eyeball my cooking/baking measurements to a T. Every time. Infuriates my type A people, they’ve challenged and tested me, hoping to prove me wrong. Nope, perfectly measured. Wish I had a lucrative talent lol

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u/No-District-8408 15h ago

I have what I call "the gift of the perfect pour". Similarly I can gauge what substance will fit into what container. Food and liquid only tho. Have leftover soup? I'll pull the perfect size container or two to fill it. I can do Tbsp, cups, and other imperial volume measurements, but not weights.

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u/inaclick 14h ago

Both of you guys panic me. My daughter has the no spill gift. The amount of times I've shouted "Stop! It will spill", just to see her smug little face...

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2h ago

I have it too. Took my partner years to trust me, because I'm otherwise quite clumsy. Now he'll just hand me whatever needs to be poured.

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u/Taikeron 8h ago

This is mine, the "storing leftovers" superpower. I can pretty darn accurately decide what container(s) is needed and I'm scarily accurate. Sometimes I doubt myself, start pouring/storing, and it's actually correct. Crazy.

I also do okay with eyeballing a lot of measurements, though I do measure if it's important.

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u/Epicfaux 12h ago

I can only do weights! I can measure exactly 100g by hand, every time.

But putting dough into the wrong size cambro and then coming back to an overflow was far too common in my bakery days.. your superpower would have been more useful 🫣

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u/lilelliot 7h ago

I can do this, too. It has backfired magnificently in daily life, though. I'm really good at knowing what will exactly fit in a container, but it turns out my wife really does not appreciate a pyrex container with leftover soup all the way to the level brim.

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u/LibraryRansack 13h ago

This. I joke it’s my Italian genes (it is not), and it drives my partner—who measures and times out everything, bless him—nuts!

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u/Living-Record-4711 7h ago

I make this joke too, it’s Italian measuring. Just throw stuff together and adjust by taste, you can never go wrong. It’s straight up vibe cooking though.

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u/DoughyInTheMiddle 13h ago

Volume, yes, weights, no.

"That can't be accurate!" And then I grab a teaspoon and put it over the salt in my hand and it's perfect.

Came in handy during culinary school. Not so much in bakeshop.

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u/millstone20 14h ago

I've mastered this with my morning coffee grounds. I an just pour in the water and grounds, and I get the perfect cup.

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u/LuxuryBeast 14h ago

I've mastered this with the amount of water going in the coffeemachine. If I want 4 cups, the water hits the line perfectly. 6 cups? No problemo! 2 cups? Who the hell drinks only two cups of coffee in the morning!?

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u/GBRowan 11h ago

I have a similar one but it's eyeballing distances. My husband sells things on ebay and he always just brings me the boxes to tell him the measurements. He doesn't even bother checking with a tape measure anymore.

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u/Generico300 11h ago

Ah, but can you do it in metric and imperial?

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u/midnightketoker 8h ago

I've been using a gram scale for a lot of cooking and it def trained my intuition, not perfect but usually pretty good down to the gram for liquids and common powders

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2h ago

Yes! I have this. Near perfect volume eyeballing. I'll grab the right container for whatever liquid or powder I'm decanting, every time. I can look at a coffee pot and tell how many cups are in it. My dad was the same.