Yeah, I ruined a whole batch of broccoli cheddar soup that way. The texture was so grainy and split, it was a total loss. White vinegar is definitely the move for anything with milk or cream, just a teaspoon does the job without messing with the flavor. I freeze a lot of soup and learned that lesson after one nasty surprise. Now I keep both lemon and vinegar in the fridge just for this.

Totally... those bigger things are the whole problem most of the time. Quick fixes get talked about because they're easy, but cost and convenience are the real walls people hit. It's like companies focus on the small stuff because the big issues are too hard to change. They don't want to rebuild a whole system or cut into profits. So we keep getting bandaids when the actual wound is way deeper.

That part about only seeing it from their side after the fact is so common. I see it with noise, but also just assuming everyone has the same weekend routine. We all just assume everyone else is on our same clock, whether it's for chores, quiet time, or even traffic patterns.