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Title: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: David In Indy on August 10, 2008, 03:47:50 pm
Boiling greens doesn't ruin their nutritional value, and slightly pink pork won't make you sick.   :D

Who'd have ever thunked it?!  ???


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Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 10, 2008, 05:45:57 pm
Well, regardless of health reasons......if I ate pork that was pink, I know I would throw up. Ugh!!
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: delalluvia on August 10, 2008, 07:16:59 pm
Good news about the pork thing, but I still don't buy #11.

I've twice tried recipes that instruct you to encrust a meat with salt and then cook it.

It's supposed to turn out juicy and flavorful.

I've ended up with tough pieces of leather that were so salty as to be inedible.

If anyone has tried those recipes and had success, please let me know your secret.
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 10, 2008, 10:01:25 pm
I've seen my mum rub salt into the fat around the pork before she cooks it. Not a thick layer of salt, she just rubs a light coating on it. And the reason she does it is so the fat turns into nice crunchy crackling.

Turning up the heat ten minutes before getting it out of the oven, also helps to make it crunchy, the same applies for your baked potatoes.

But I would assume if meat is tough, no amount of salt is going to make it tender.
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: delalluvia on August 10, 2008, 11:03:04 pm
I've seen my mum rub salt into the fat around the pork before she cooks it. Not a thick layer of salt, she just rubs a light coating on it. And the reason she does it is so the fat turns into nice crunchy crackling.

Turning up the heat ten minutes before getting it out of the oven, also helps to make it crunchy, the same applies for your baked potatoes.

But I would assume if meat is tough, no amount of salt is going to make it tender.

Or if it's a cut of meat that doesn't have a rind of fat.  The recipes don't call for just rubbing it into the fat, they advise rubbing it all over the meat.
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Lynne on August 11, 2008, 02:11:37 am
The type of salt used might make a difference.  I've had good results with a very coarse Kosher salt with beef tenderloin.  I'm not sure that a finely ground salt would work the same way.  It was my understanding that the salt is supposed to form a barrier to hold the juices in the meat so it wouldn't work if the salt is easily absorbed.
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: injest on August 11, 2008, 07:36:15 am
The type of salt used might make a difference.  I've had good results with a very coarse Kosher salt with beef tenderloin.  I'm not sure that a finely ground salt would work the same way.  It was my understanding that the salt is supposed to form a barrier to hold the juices in the meat so it wouldn't work if the salt is easily absorbed.

and from what I have seen on cooking shows it is put on VERY thick.
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 11, 2008, 07:43:25 am
and from what I have seen on cooking shows it is put on VERY thick.

You watch cooking shows Jess???......
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: injest on August 11, 2008, 07:45:31 am
You watch cooking shows Jess???......

sometimes...does that surprise you?
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 11, 2008, 07:49:20 am
sometimes...does that surprise you?

Well, yeah, its hard to think of someone who mucks the stables, and gives the cows internals, sitting down watching a cooking show.

Next thing ur gonna tell me is that you wear an apron...... ::)
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: injest on August 11, 2008, 07:57:31 am
Well, yeah, its hard to think of someone who mucks the stables, and gives the cows internals, sitting down watching a cooking show.

Next thing ur gonna tell me is that you wear an apron...... ::)

well someone has to cook...you dont' think Don is gonna do it? Mr. Real Men Don't Cook! (unless it is outside and flammable liquids are involved)

He gave my son a HARD time about wanting to learn to cook... :P

the neanderthal...
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 11, 2008, 08:11:34 am
Your Don and my Bob would make a good pair........

But Bob didn't mind our sons learning to cook.....and if we have a family barbecue, he gets one of them to do the cooking.......
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: injest on August 11, 2008, 08:44:24 am
Your Don and my Bob would make a good pair........

But Bob didn't mind our sons learning to cook.....and if we have a family barbecue, he gets one of them to do the cooking.......

oh?? Does your Bob throw a walleyed fit if you let the meat to vegetable proportions get too low??

 >:( ::)
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 11, 2008, 08:47:53 am
oh?? Does your Bob throw a walleyed fit if you let the meat to vegetable proportions get too low??

 >:( ::)

He woudlnt be bloody game......... >:( >:(
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: injest on August 11, 2008, 08:51:33 am
He woudlnt be bloody game......... >:( >:(

 :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: CellarDweller on August 22, 2008, 11:02:29 am
Food myths......

How about the one that said you shouldn't swim until an hour after you eat?

I always hated going to the beach and getting some snack, and then not be allowed to swim for an hour.

 >:(
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 23, 2008, 02:56:45 am
Food myths......

How about the one that said you shouldn't swim until an hour after you eat?

I always hated going to the beach and getting some snack, and then not be allowed to swim for an hour.

 >:(

Yeah, I reckon that was a myth......I think they just didnt want to feed us.....
Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: David In Indy on August 23, 2008, 03:39:23 am
Yeah, I reckon that was a myth......I think they just didnt want to feed us.....

I remember that one too. I always hated to eat lunch because mom would make me wait an hour before I could go back into the pool. She said if I didn't I'd get cramps and drown. ::)

They used to make us eat a box of Jell-o before a swim meet too. Not regular Jell-o. We had to eat the mix, the powder straight out of the box. I never could understand why it was okay to eat a box of Jell-o mix and jump straight into a pool for a swim meet, but yet wait an hour after lunch when I was having fun. It never made any sense to me. ???



Title: Re: Your Mom Was Wrong - Culinary Myths Dispelled
Post by: Katie77 on August 23, 2008, 03:57:18 am
Oh I loved the Jelly (thats what we call Jello here) straight out of the box. Its really just flavoured sugar with some gelatine in it. When I was young we would not only get the flavoured sugar but hidden in there was always a hard flavoured lolly ball....

Obviously they gave u Jello before a swim meet to give you a boost of energy.......(child doping)