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• PARBOIL - Partially cook food in boiling water. Why? For one, to avoid over cooking, particularly if your mixing food with different cooking times. Speaking of which, parboiling is a good time saver. If you do it in batches and store it right you'll have stock of food ready to get cooked in a short time since it's already partially cooked! Parboiling is usually done with veggies, but it's a good technique for pre-cooking some meats too like i discovered from Chef Tony's lesson on making Blackened Chicken. Other reasons for parboiling and notes about storing parboiled food? click here where the wiseGeeks are!