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It's highly unlikely they steamed the sausages at 350 °F. Much more likely they steamed them at 175 °C, which gives the sausages that little bit more zest.
by RedShift1 4y ago
It's highly unlikely they steamed the sausages at 350 °F. Much more likely they steamed them at 175 °C, which gives the sausages that little bit more zest.
- Lio 4y agoYeah that is definitely a metric sausage. Deserves a litre of beer.
- rob74 4y agoOr half a litre. But definitely not a pint.
- joezydeco 4y agoI'm curious how this was done at standard atmosphere.
- HPsquared 4y agoNot at equilibrium, sausages are cooler then the (steamy) air.
- joezydeco 4y agoIn an open atmosphere, steam is 212F/100C (slightly less for higher altitudes). The point is "steam" doesn't exist at 350F unless it's in a pressure cooker. It's a valid preparation technique but not common in German kitchens from my experience.
- oasisbob 4y agoSteam exists at 350 degrees in the same way bread can be cooked at 350 degrees and come out moist. The bad assumption here is that all the water flashes off instantly, or that the temperature isn't referring to the thing you're cooking.
- HPsquared 4y agoSteam heated by boiling water at sea level can't exceed 100C, but if you further heat the gaseous steam (e.g. against a hot metal surface of some kind) you can heat it further. This is called superheating. Once it's superheated, it behaves just like any other gas - can be as hot as you like (until it chemically breaks down at extreme temperatures). In an oven at 200C, for example, with a little bit of water, the water would evaporate/boil and the resulting steam would be heated to whatever temperature the oven is at. The oven would be full of superheated (dry) steam. It's a matter of heat transfer, if you drip only a small amount of water slowly into the oven, it won't cool down much but the atmosphere can still be entirely steam.
- newaccount74 4y agoWhat you are describing is just normal heating, not superheating. "Superheating" means to heat something beyond the point of phase transition without it changing phase. Superheating would be heating water beyond 100 degree celsius. If it's steam, you can't superheat it any more, you just heat it. You are correct that there is no limit how much you can heat steam.
- HPsquared 4y agoAh, I was using the "engineering" meaning. In engineering, "superheated steam" is steam heated beyond its boiling point at a given pressure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam https://www.spiraxsarco.com/learn-about-steam/steam-engineering-principles-and-heat-transfer/superheated-steam https://www.spiraxsarco.com/learn-about-steam/steam-engineer... In a steam boiler, the boiling and superheating are often done in different locations: the water is first evaporated in one section, then the resulting "saturated steam" (i.e. at vapor-liquid equilibrium) then passes through a hotter section, often called a superheater, which heats it further beyond the boiling point. Superheated steam is better for turbines than saturated steam.
- newaccount74 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combi_steamer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combi_steamer No pressure needed.