{"slug":"rendang-too-watery","recipeSlug":"rendang","title":"My rendang is still watery","shortTitle":"Rendang is still watery","symptom":"Loose orange-brown sauce remains around otherwise tender beef.","directAnswer":"You are probably at the kalio stage, not a failed stage. Keep the pot uncovered at a gentle simmer and stir more frequently as it thickens. Stop only when there is no loose sauce and the dark paste clings to the beef.","doNow":["Keep the pot uncovered at a gentle simmer.","Use a wide pot surface and stir from the base more often as the sauce tightens.","Lower the heat for the final darkening rather than rushing it."],"doNot":["Do not pour liquid away; it carries the coconut and bumbu that must reduce.","Do not use high heat to force the final stage.","Do not call it finished while sauce still runs off the beef."],"why":"Rendang passes through a saucy kalio stage before it becomes dry rendang. Pan width, batch size, coconut milk, and heat can move the clock substantially, so the visible state matters more than the stated duration.","nextState":"The spoon leaves a path that stays visible and dark paste clings to each piece of beef.","panels":[{"label":"Not ready","appearance":"Loose orange-brown sauce","test":"A spoon path fills immediately","action":"Keep reducing"},{"label":"Ready","appearance":"Dark paste clinging to beef","test":"A spoon path remains visible","action":"Lower heat and finish"},{"label":"Too far","appearance":"Blackened paste stuck to the base","test":"Acrid smell or dry burnt spots","action":"Move the unburnt portion to a clean pan"}],"step":4,"locale":"shared","status":"awaiting-field-verification","recipe":{"slug":"rendang","title":"Rendang","url":"https://www.bumbulens.com/recipes/rendang","dataUrl":"https://www.bumbulens.com/recipes/rendang/data.json"},"localizedVersions":{"en-AU":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery","id-ID":"https://www.bumbulens.com/id-id/perbaiki/rendang-masih-berair"},"schemaVersion":"1.0","entity":{"type":"cooking-diagnostic","id":"rendang-too-watery"},"publication":{"status":"awaiting-field-verification","canonicalIndexable":false},"canonicalUrl":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery","dataUrl":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery/data.json","inLanguage":"en-AU","links":{"self":{"href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery/data.json","mediaType":"application/json"},"canonical":{"href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery","mediaType":"text/html"}},"actions":[{"id":"read_diagnostic_data","actor":"agent","label":"Read the cooking diagnostic","method":"GET","href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/fix/rendang-too-watery/data.json","mediaType":"application/json"},{"id":"read_recipe_data","actor":"agent","label":"Read the Rendang recipe entity","method":"GET","href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/recipes/rendang/data.json","mediaType":"application/json"},{"id":"open_matching_cook_step","actor":"human","label":"Open the matching Rendang cook step","method":"GET","href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/cook/rendang?step=4","mediaType":"text/html"},{"id":"view_recipe","actor":"human","label":"View Rendang","method":"GET","href":"https://www.bumbulens.com/recipes/rendang","mediaType":"text/html"}]}