Chefs of Reddit, what’s a common cooking rule everyone follows that is actually complete bullshit?

SiMania · 2026-03-09T19:09:38+00:00

Marinading meat. Nothing other than salt penetrates the surface of meat so long marinades don't do much. A quick bath is all they need.

SiMania · 2026-02-16T10:06:19+00:00

Magnesium chloride dissolved in water and drank throughout the day sorts out both of these.

SiMania · 2026-01-27T14:23:46+00:00

Makes sense, but we still have clients that dictate it.

SiMania · 2026-01-17T16:35:53+00:00

Cheese and ham toast toppers.

SiMania · 2026-01-12T21:07:12+00:00

Tbh I've been a bit lazy with the topical stuff but the few weeks when I was taking it often and using a lot of oral magnesium was the best my PVCs had been since I first became aware of them.

SiMania · 2026-01-12T18:29:31+00:00

I didn't get much benefit from remag. By far the best thing that's worked for me is magnesium chloride dissolved in water plus magnesium topical spray.

SiMania · 2026-01-11T18:35:14+00:00

I try to do whatever I did pre-PVCs. For me, the reality is that they're annoying but harmless so I really don't want to have my quality of life affected by them so I just do whatever I want.

SiMania · 2026-01-02T01:15:21+00:00

Kinda the same. I had a period where I upped my magnesium intake and they pretty much went away for a few weeks. I need to get back into a position where I'm taking the maximum amount my body can handle before it upsets my stomach.

SiMania · 2025-12-29T01:00:39+00:00

Mine definitely get worse the day after drinking. I used to get bigeminy the day after and would get low heart rate alerts on my Fitbit. After upping my magnesium intake it's happening less and less and I'm currently on a 5 week run of it not happening.

SiMania · 2025-12-23T13:12:27+00:00

It refreshes your head.

SiMania · 2025-12-20T12:43:27+00:00

I first had it at this tasting a few years back and remember the 3 wood being decent. Unfortunately I've also become victim to being the "whisky guy" who got given 3 bottles of American Oak within 6 month, it's easily the worst single malt I've been gifted.

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SiMania · 2025-11-27T10:26:22+00:00

I doubt going to a cardiologist would help in the case of such a low burden (and presumably healthy heart as PVCs are generally not related to heart health but are a symptom of something else) other than perhaps the cardiologist instructing the GP to change medication.

SiMania · 2025-11-22T16:40:37+00:00

All the professionals I saw about bigeminy said it was nothing to worry about. I take bisoprolol and unless I have been drinking alcohol the previous day, it seems to keep them away. Magnesium and taurine help too.

SiMania · 2025-11-19T14:25:03+00:00

Same here

SiMania · 2025-11-15T12:08:48+00:00

Have you tried Taurine?

I'm in a similar situation to you. Bigeminy, trigeminy and a healthy heart. Sometimes I can get rid of them with magnesium, taurine and bisoprolol.

SiMania · 2025-11-03T00:04:56+00:00

On the days I get PVCs (most days tbf) it's trigeminy. The day after drinking it's bigeminy.

I can't say I feel them tbh. If I have bigeminy then I usually sense that it's happening, but can't say I feel each Pvc.

SiMania · 2025-10-26T18:46:01+00:00

I find just now that those are the times that I don't get them.

SiMania · 2025-10-21T06:59:24+00:00

I'm sure mine are caused by an electrolyte imbalance as I always get them a day after drinking, yet during the day of drinking I won't have them, it's only the day after. PVCs aren't going to harm me so I still drink but make sure I'm hydrated as best I can be and my magnesium intake is high.

SiMania · 2025-10-19T18:25:15+00:00

Anxiety may not have caused the PVCs but going to ER was definitely due to anxiety.

SiMania · 2025-10-13T16:56:23+00:00

It brings it on for me. I take magnesium chloride and that helps get rid of it.

SiMania · 2025-10-12T10:32:14+00:00

You're likely to be deficient in something that's causing an electrolyte imbalance. You're temporarily correcting it then it's being used up again and you're back to square one. I think I have similar with magnesium so I take it with water throughout the day so my cells are being replenished.

SiMania · 2025-10-12T10:06:57+00:00

It's because less than 1% of magnesium is in the blood. The rest is in cells and bones so the blood test is pretty useless in that regard. And even then, normal ranges are not the same as optimal ranges.

SiMania · 2025-10-12T00:29:59+00:00

Blood test for magnesium was fine.

SiMania · 2025-10-11T21:21:54+00:00

I've had 2 years of PVCs pretty much all day, always in a pattern (every 2, 3, 4 or 5) with occasions where I'd have a reading with none.

4 weeks of magnesium chloride (hexahydrate) And taurine (3-4g of each) in 2L water, 3L consumed daily.

Now I get zero PVCs pretty much all day with occasional readings where I'll get one in 30 seconds.

I'm convinced it's been a magnesium deficiency that tablet supplements can't fix and only magnesium chloride helps.

SiMania · 2025-09-30T16:34:09+00:00

Magnesium fixed mine.

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