And mild mind blowing for those non-academic: frozen meat and some veggies thaw faster in sub 4 C salty water solution and taste better when cooked.
Forgot what it’s called: brine solution
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Ooh, which veg?
Haricot verts (green bean?), broccoli, soy beans, green peas, avocado chunks, corn and zucchini cubes.
Edit: just don’t thaw your meat WITH your veggies. That might get you salmonella or yersinia.
Second edit: Yersiniosis sucks, unfortunately (likely) got it from organic pork and veg from a farm that apparently didn’t believe in health protocols, was seriously ill for three weeks despite not undercooking anything. Now I even rinse my lettuce for at least two minutes.
I honestly don't understand how people in the food and animal agriculture industries, people who know just how poor the hygeine standards usually are and how terrible the quality of life for the 'product' is, can still eat stuff harvested from these animals.
And the toxic bio waste from these farms is spread over feilds as 'fertiliser' that poisons the land, destroys the nearby water sources, and sickens the people who eat the vegetables.
This toxic bio waste is also fed to other animals, 'chicken litter' is the shit and dropped feathers scraped up from industrial chicken farms and it's sold as cow feed ffs. Pigs are fed ground up refuse food waste, plastic packaging and rot and all.
And if you work in kitchens, you will have seen the pus filled absesses in the pork and beef, and the bloated, broken chicken legs with their discoloured burns from where the hens grew so fast their legs broke under them and couldn't move out of their own excrement anyway because their cages are so small.
How can people know this and still consider eating these diseased and tortured animals for food? Let alone good food.
Ugh, sorry for ranting, this is just so fucking disgusting and I can't comprehend how people keep eating like this and supporting these practices.
Edit: I will try the salt water thawing for the soy beans in my freezer, thank you for the tip!
Fair enough but when I worked in the restaurant industry, a periodic visit/inspection from the FDA warned us NOT to defrost sealed plastic packaged food in hot/warm water because something something bacterial growth.
Because people might forget about it and not know how long it's been in the danger zone.
It's fine to do at home, as long as you don't do the same and poison yourself.
It basically comes down to: are you as capable as a moderately intelligent child?
Ok was the food laying around after defrosting?
Or what was the logic here?
You're supposed to defrost food in the fridge at ~4°C, because the warmer it gets, the more the bacteries are gonna reproduce.
Maybe a year ago. Now tiktok is just ai bots posting clips from twitch and YouTube videos is parts and not posting all the parts to cause comment hate engagements.
Which, unironically, cites the Yahoo article that covers the Twitter posts that cover the tiktok video that teaches the uneducated masses how to defrost food with heat.
I literally just had someone on this site call me sad for looking up statistics to see if a claim a celebrity made was true
We're fucked y'all
Bro, you're supposed to just read the title then rage dump the first thing that comes to mind. Could you even imagine what the world would be like if people took the time to back up their claims with evidence? If people gave measured responses to this crazy thing we call life, slowly unwinding all the nonsense!? If being thoughtful was what dictated success instead of driving engagement regardless of positive or negative?!?
Yeah, neither can I.
I've shocked for years that somehow humanity even came this far, 20% of the population must be doing some heavy lifting keeping the other 80% afloat
I mean, hordes of clerks and ‘unskilled’ workers are still mostly necessary so that food and goods to feed, house and clothe the 20% are delivered properly. Otherwise it would be Ayn Rand's utopia where geniuses make stuff all day while being supplied by magic.
You're kidding yourself if you think it's 80:20. It's likely closer to 90:10 lol
Sad
I feel like the subtle burn in this is the implication that the undereducated don’t know the difference between melting and thawing.
Nevermind that; the real issue is that using hot water to thaw food is dangerous advice because the outside will get warm enough to spoil while the center is still frozen. You're supposed to use cold water to do it, and that water should either be running from a tap or switched out frequently as it warms.
I ~~feel~~ like the subtle burn in this is the implication that the undereducated don’t know the difference between melting and thawing.
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thaw /thô/ intransitive verb
- To change from a frozen solid to a liquid by gradual warming
melt /mĕlt/ intransitive verb
- To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
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Sure, that distinction has no difference if we’re talking about water.
But if you put a frozen chicken breast in the refrigerator, it will not be in liquid form the next day. It will simply be “not frozen” any longer.
- to become free of the effect (such as stiffness, numbness, or hardness) of cold as a result of exposure to warmth
Or another example. You have a block of frozen cheese. You put it out on the counter for 24 hours. Would you say that cheese is now “melted” and ready to be put on nachos?
But if you put your cheese on the counter, it's still yours.
You need someone else's cheese for nacho cheese.
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Thawing doesn't imply changing from a solid to a liquid. It means changing from a frozen solid to a room temperature solid.
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I would say it’s the centerpiece of the punchline.
But what do I know? I’m a bear and I eat the heads off of fish.
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YouTube: picture of content creator looking like he just got mind-blowing news as he played the TikTok video then gives a reaction
Lemmy: "Oops! All jeans!"
Nope, now all beans. And now corn, and now horny posting, nope back to beans
just as the orb has foretold
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For anyone who missed out on learning food safety guidelines at some point, which I don't blame anyone for - Don't thaw your food in hot or even warm water. Even if you don't accidentally cook your food before you meant to, allowing the outer layer of the food to spend time in the temperature danger zone while the inner parts thaw will allow bacteria to start causing trouble. Now, if your frozen thing is small or thin enough to completely thaw in like 5 minutes, you're probably fine using warmer water, but in general, try to keep everything under 40°F(4°C) until you're actually ready to cook it.
Also, I've found that things just thaw faster in cold water. My theory is the large temperature differential creates a sort of cold barrier, like the Leidenfrost effect. Or maybe the outside cooks enough to slow the heat transfer.
But moving cold water is the trick for a fast thaw.
Moving water is the key. If the water is stationary, the liquid nearest the food cools, thus reducing the thawing effect, and convection alone isn't enough to bring in fresh water to that region. Either hold the item to be defrosted under a running tap, which is rather wasteful, or put it in a bowl of water and stir it.
What's Mastodon? /s
It's a bullfighter that wears a fancy cape, but that's not important right now.
No, that's a matador. A Mastodon is a series of diverging or converging pipes or tubes often found in engines for intake or exhaust.
reddit: here is a blog post about how I used LLMs to remove limitations from my printer
Also reddit: and my axe!
Also Reddit: banned for encouraging violence for talking about an axe!
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