Common pantry ingredients like AP flour, rice flour, and potato starch behave similarly to cornstarch when it comes to thickening, baking, and frying.

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There’s nothing worse than a thin sauce or a watery stew, but such undesirable outcomes can happen to the best of us, which is why the kitchen gods have blessed us with cornstarch—a magical powder ...