food safety - Is it safe to use plastic wrap in boiling water ...
2017年4月13日 · I'd revisit this advice if your recipe called for cooking like this for longer than 5-10 minutes, there are likely more suitable products/recipes for extensive boil-in-the-bag manoeuvres. EDIT Many meals have passed, I'm less gung-ho on heating cling film/plastics.
equipment - Sous vide without plastic bags? - Seasoned Advice
FoodSaver bags have, AFAIK, always been polypropylene, which doesn't have BPA in it. Other bag materials in common use are polyethylene, which is also BPA-free. The major plastic with BPA is polycarbonate, and I don't know if anyone has ever made a bag from it... it's more expensive, I believe. (BPA is in a lot of non-plastics as well) –
fish - Can I thaw salmon directly in water? - Seasoned Advice
2020年10月18日 · My opinion is to go ahead and do it, without the bag. The points of the other answers, about a bit of stuff leaching into the water, are generally true, but I think the effect will be quite small. People tend to overestimate how much stuff is exchanged with meat submerged in liquid, either going in (marinades) or going out (soaking).
What is this white stuff in my black bean bag? - Seasoned Advice
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What to look for in a kitchen scale - Seasoned Advice
2018年4月6日 · Waterproof I wouldn't say is a huge concern, I can't think of a time where I would be all that worried about getting a scales wet. Easy to clean is handy, but it depends how you weight things. I usually put a bowl on before putting whatever I'm weighing in that so the scales don't get dirty usually, but if you were weighing things like butter ...
measurements - How should I pick a flour volume to weight …
* There probably are several such distributions, one for e.g. home cooks scooping bread flour and leveling it against the bag, another for pastry professionals scooping sifted flour and leveling it with a straightedge, etc., and then the sum of those should be normally distributed.
food safety - Why do frozen vegetables go bad more quickly after ...
2019年1月4日 · Once defrosted, each cell is then little more than a slowly-leaking bag of nutrient, exposed to the open air. Whether or not any bacteria gets in & starts to breed is almost irrelevant by this time, as your 'leaky bag' is going to dissolve into a pool of its own juices pretty quickly. This is why frozen veg is cook-from-frozen not cook-from-thawed.
Are carrots safe to eat after they have turned black?
2013年12月14日 · A few people have asked questions like: why not throw them away/why take the chance, etc. Whether or not I can afford to throw away a bag of carrots, surely we should be trying (as a society) to waste as little as possible. If we accept that, then it's down to forums such as this to advise on doing that safely. –
tea - Will swishing or moving a teabag around affect the steeping …
2018年6月16日 · I pour boiling hot water over my teabag and start my timer for five minutes and don't touch or swirl the tea bag. If the bag sits in the hot water 20% longer (6 minutes instead of 5), I would be lying if I tried to pretend that I could preceive a taste difference from the previous cuppa I'd sipped. I cannot.
How to adequately secure a liquid filling in a piece of pastry?
2022年8月22日 · Liquid fillings are typically piped into pastries after baking, like with donuts, eclairs, and cream puffs. The method you used relies on crimping and sealing the dough with a long seam in contrast to a single hole, giving the potential for leakage from a seam failure along the entire length of pastry.