Ask Adam #8: Sous vide overrated? Cooking for quarantine depression?
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And if it's an upper class restaurant. well that's not a new phenomenon either, the three stars classification from Michelin appeared in 1931, and there was already excellent restaurants outside of Paris. but maybe that's a french exception: p
Date: 2021-03-09
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Joshua
Hey Adam, if you read this I would love it if you did a video on basic kitchen appliances. I have noticed that in a lot of videos you and other food tubers use things I don't own like a hand mixer or a food processor. I've recently been in the market for aquiring these items and I can't find anything I have any confidence in buying. These items appear to be according to Amazon reviews: universally garbage. The products are always 4 to 5 stars supposedly, but the actual writing in the reviews does not speak to a good product. I think I found a reasonable hand mixer finally, but I'm finding it impossible to locate a food processor that isn't going to apparently break on me and have zero warranty to back it up. This is even from major brands, and more expensive products are just as poorly reviewed! Am I just being too picky? I don't need a product that revolutionizes my life and lasts 30 years, but I'd generally like to buy stuff that will actually work and last a reasonable amount of time. No point buying 10 bad products over many years if I could just buy one good one.
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Hey Adam, if you read this I would love it if you did a video on basic kitchen appliances. I have noticed that in a lot of videos you and other food tubers use things I don't own like a hand mixer or a food processor. I've recently been in the market for aquiring these items and I can't find anything I have any confidence in buying. These items appear to be according to Amazon reviews: universally garbage. The products are always 4 to 5 stars supposedly, but the actual writing in the reviews does not speak to a good product. I think I found a reasonable hand mixer finally, but I'm finding it impossible to locate a food processor that isn't going to apparently break on me and have zero warranty to back it up. This is even from major brands, and more expensive products are just as poorly reviewed! Am I just being too picky? I don't need a product that revolutionizes my life and lasts 30 years, but I'd generally like to buy stuff that will actually work and last a reasonable amount of time. No point buying 10 bad products over many years if I could just buy one good one.
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Mimi
The point about car accidents due to deer strike makes me think of kangaroos. A car hits a large Eastern Grey or Big Red kangaroo? The car might be totaled!
But on the meat side of that equation, I think all kangaroo roadkill is likely fair game for wildlife to pick at, and I know there is a picture I have seen online of a wedge-tailed eagle (which are damn big birds) picking at a carcass. The meat industry like carefully harvests from healthy animals shot and packed for maximum freshness and hygiene.
Also, did you know, kangaroos are not farmed? It's all wild animal hunting. But the thing is, the kangaroos that get shot for meat are the big breeds that are not endangered.
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The point about car accidents due to deer strike makes me think of kangaroos. A car hits a large Eastern Grey or Big Red kangaroo? The car might be totaled!
But on the meat side of that equation, I think all kangaroo roadkill is likely fair game for wildlife to pick at, and I know there is a picture I have seen online of a wedge-tailed eagle (which are damn big birds) picking at a carcass. The meat industry like carefully harvests from healthy animals shot and packed for maximum freshness and hygiene.
Also, did you know, kangaroos are not farmed? It's all wild animal hunting. But the thing is, the kangaroos that get shot for meat are the big breeds that are not endangered.
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bobbler42
Re: game: it is very hard to maintain pLast production without pest control, which includes rabbits and deer. As a Brit I stand with George Minbiot in that a lot of what constitutes wild Britain has been shaped by millennia of livestock farming, especially of sheep. Hence no wolves, which previously checked deer populations, many fewer foxes, and rabbits everywhere. Deer prevent tree growth, bunnies eat everything.
As such I say bring on the Bambi burgers, Jamie Oliver s fried rabbit and wild boar with everything. Plus if good animal husbandry involves ensuring livestock only has one bad day, wild hunted game only has one bad moment. I can live with that.
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Re: game: it is very hard to maintain pLast production without pest control, which includes rabbits and deer. As a Brit I stand with George Minbiot in that a lot of what constitutes wild Britain has been shaped by millennia of livestock farming, especially of sheep. Hence no wolves, which previously checked deer populations, many fewer foxes, and rabbits everywhere. Deer prevent tree growth, bunnies eat everything.
As such I say bring on the Bambi burgers, Jamie Oliver s fried rabbit and wild boar with everything. Plus if good animal husbandry involves ensuring livestock only has one bad day, wild hunted game only has one bad moment. I can live with that.
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Sue
There s a lot more to using an immersion circulator than just cooking meat in a bag. I don t mind handling meat; but, I am afraid of destroying a nice steak. I just never did one inside. Sous vide made me comfortable cooking steaks inside. Other, unexpected, things I love about the immersion circulator is cooking polenta and dried beans. I do polenta in a silicone bag and dried beans in a canning jar. It s also nice for reheating things. Oh, deserts like cheesecake and custard in canning jars are also great.
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There s a lot more to using an immersion circulator than just cooking meat in a bag. I don t mind handling meat; but, I am afraid of destroying a nice steak. I just never did one inside. Sous vide made me comfortable cooking steaks inside. Other, unexpected, things I love about the immersion circulator is cooking polenta and dried beans. I do polenta in a silicone bag and dried beans in a canning jar. It s also nice for reheating things. Oh, deserts like cheesecake and custard in canning jars are also great.
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Jcewazhere
Young people are LESS jaded? Adam, welcome to the internet: P
I loved college, no partying but the learning and the campus and the people were all awesome. Hasn't really helped get a job, has gotten me lots of debt. Computer science major.
Lauren is awesome: ) She should become a regular.
Great video as usual, even if you did disparage sous vide, thanks for making it.
Addendum: Yeah, that restrict then binge thing is a [expletive] 15.
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Young people are LESS jaded? Adam, welcome to the internet: P
I loved college, no partying but the learning and the campus and the people were all awesome. Hasn't really helped get a job, has gotten me lots of debt. Computer science major.
Lauren is awesome: ) She should become a regular.
Great video as usual, even if you did disparage sous vide, thanks for making it.
Addendum: Yeah, that restrict then binge thing is a [expletive] 15.
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Colin
My first though when they moved on to the discussion around different cultures eating different meat and how many Americans think some of these other meats are weird/wrong/lesser was horse meat. The stuff is good man, people gotta get over the 'but I owned one as a pet' thing. I'd be open to trying dog or even cat, but the bigger reason I hesitate there is both dogs and cats are known to often have parasites (cats often infected with toxoplasmosis.
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My first though when they moved on to the discussion around different cultures eating different meat and how many Americans think some of these other meats are weird/wrong/lesser was horse meat. The stuff is good man, people gotta get over the 'but I owned one as a pet' thing. I'd be open to trying dog or even cat, but the bigger reason I hesitate there is both dogs and cats are known to often have parasites (cats often infected with toxoplasmosis.
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Zelkrov
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3: 16
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For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3: 16
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Aaron
Wrong. Sous vide is under-rated and misrepresented. It is not a 4-6 hour method, it is a longer method and has everything to do with controlling temperature from package to table. Still, nothing compares. I can r eat expensive steak at fine restaurants anymore - even when the company pays. Oh, and it is really just for red meat.
Sous vide don t do 140
Poaching is 212.
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Wrong. Sous vide is under-rated and misrepresented. It is not a 4-6 hour method, it is a longer method and has everything to do with controlling temperature from package to table. Still, nothing compares. I can r eat expensive steak at fine restaurants anymore - even when the company pays. Oh, and it is really just for red meat.
Sous vide don t do 140
Poaching is 212.
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