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) –
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.
How do I wrap a spring-form pan in foil so it doesn't leak when I …
2015年12月2日 · If you have 18 inch wide heavy duty foil, pull a square that is 18X18, place your pan in the center of the foil and lift the edges of the foil up around the outside of the pan, effectively making a pan within a pan (spring form inside the aluminum foil pan.
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).
Why grease the pan, then line with greaseproof/parchment paper?
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Can I make popcorn with any corn? - Seasoned Advice
2019年4月5日 · it has a hard husk that is quite waterproof; it contains the right amount of moisture (14–20%, according to Wikipedia). When you cook the corn, the water turns to steam, and the husk stops the steam escaping until the pressure builds up enough to make the kernel explode and the starch turn to a solid foam.
food science - Why put flour in Oven Bag? - Seasoned Advice
2017年11月24日 · This question is about the plastic "Oven Bags" used to roast various kinds of meat or poultry in. I have some of these made by Reynolds Co., and in the Cooking Guide that came along in the package, it says: "Add 1 TBSP flour to bag. Shake! This helps prevent bag from bursting." This was before you put the rest of the food into the bag.
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. –
Found a kind of worm in my rice bag, what should I do?
Or a insect could have laid eggs in the rice after opened. This includes flour even after milled. As insect eggs are very elastic. Can go threw milling into flour. Even inalators that shake flour to separate the yolk. In a few weeks the yolk in a insect egg reforms. So such will happen more than once in your lifetime. Does the whole bag have ...
I bought a bag of Brussels sprouts that looked fine but smelled ...
2017年1月5日 · I recently bought a pre-packaged bag of brussels sprouts. The sprouts in the bag looked great, green and plump with not a spec of black or brown on them. The next day I cut open the bag and found that the entire bag smelled like a mix between vinegar and over-ripened cantaloupe. If I cut open a single sprout the smell was even stronger.