On the Food network they boil potatoes but they poach carrots. They poach turkey, but they boil eggs. They sauté’ onions, but they fry eggs in the same pan. Likewise, they fry hash browns but they sauté’ onions in the same pan before adding the potatoes.
I can go on for days,
soren446@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 1 year ago
All good but I'd just like to point something out.
When you boil pasta you're actually hydrating it, and it's a process that occurs above 80C, you don't need water to be boiling savagely.
In fact, it's preferable to let pasta simmer, as full boiling is a bit too "violent" and tends to damage most kinds of pasta.
You know, when some pieces are broken and torn like when it's overcooked? You can avoid that by keeping the temperature low.
Some people in Italy even turn the fire off after the water has started boiling ,as the water is hot enough to cook the pasta and keep it nice and firm.
evilgiraffe666@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Interesting, I was taught you used a rolling boil for pasta so it wouldn’t stick together. Maybe there’s a halfway where it rolls for a few minutes then gets turned down as the pieces soften and become vulnerable to tearing.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You’re correct but it begs the question, why the hell would they poach carrots? If any vegetable can stand up to boiling it’s a carrot. Blanching I could see, (that’s a 2 minute dunk in boiling water, OP, with a quick cooldown) if you wanted to pre-cook them so they wouldn’t be harder than everything else. Maybe they were just being poncy.
soren446@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Le sigh. Your answerI makes me really wish we could have the equivalent of r/askculinary here.
NPC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m a cook and just created !askculinary@lemmy.world for you. Feel free to direct any culinary question you have to it and I’ll do by best to answer them.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait you dont boil potatoes?