One day I and my cousin visited a restaurant and so many cooks came to take our order.We told them to make us a broth with some slizes of bread we asked for just one and they all sped off to the kitchen. WE were worried that they might make a not so good broth and waited anxiously for our food,
finaly the waiter arrived with our broth as we took a scoop of it we felt so disgusted as it tasted so bad
i asked the waitter how many cooks cooked the broth 5 cooks he said then i remembered a proverb saying too many cooks spoil the broth.
Some examples of contradictory proverbs are "Look before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost," as well as "Many hands make light work" and "Too many cooks spoil the broth." These proverbs seem to contradict each other in their messages.
too many cooks destroy my soup.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. I just love the aromas in the house when my aunt cooks Italian food.
"Too many cooks spoil the broth."
"MY mother always used to say"
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
The records of when and where the quote 'too many cooks spoil the broth' have been lost to time. However looking at the origin of the word 'broth' it seems to have been used at least since the 12th century in England. It's possible the quote was a wise person's musings which spread and became popular with the original creator never being given credit.
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No, those statements are not aphorisms. An aphorism is a concise statement that expresses a general truth or wisdom. Your statements are more like general observations or proverbs.
Too many cooks do spoil the broth means that when too many people are involved in a given idea their contrasting views may make the project fail.
Too many cooks spoil the broth (like a soup).
To clarify broth, usually for making consumme, cooks whisk egg whites, sometimes with their crumpled shells, into a broth. The egg proteins stick to particles and impurities in the broth, eventually gathering into a scummy disk know as "the raft". The raft floats to the top and is discarded.