Cook’s Illustrated’s Lan Lam delves into the cooking techniques and science behind some of our most innovative recipes. In this episode, show shows you a counterintuitive, yet highly effective method of browning food in water.
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Would this work for dishes with browned potato slices?
Love this. I kind of did this with mushrooms without realising it. I used butter and the water in the butter helped wilt down the mushrooms fairly quickly. Now I understand this process better. Thank you.
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I use your trick all the time. Great results, although counter-intuitive…
I learned to cook from my parents from very young, I had a debate with my friend about caramelizing onions… he tried telling me that caramelized onions means you must sprinkle sugar or sugar water on it which is why its called Caramelized😂
Cooking is basically science 🙂
Really informative, terrific delivery. Very pleasant presenter, well done
ATK went pretty hard on vegan and vegetarian cooking recently; their website is almost exclusively vegan/veggie recipes now. Had to unsubscribe from their site after many years of being a loyal paid subscriber.
Takes too long to get to the browning stage. My method is to do it the old fashioned way without adding any additional water, but with the pot covered with a lid, which helps the meat release the juices faster in high even temperature steam environment.
this is an eye opening with water! thanks!
Wow. Game changer! I'm very interested if any of these concepts translate to roasting veggies in the oven.
just add brown suggar lel
I always do this
Game changer…wow..Ty again …
Huh, cool I've been doing this for a long time. Just figured it out on my own 🤷
I stumbled upon this by accident and yes, it works great!
Nice idea. Can I use white wine instead of water with the mushrooms?
Fascinating. I'm going to have to rethink a few of my normal cooking routines. That's a good thing!
Water does not brown food. The residual oils/fats from the bacon is what caramelizes it. However, all of her food choices had high water content prior to cooking.
Wait! The bacon! What about the bacon??