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I love cooking and science. I cannot figure out why anyone would want to cook a salmon in ice? even if it's possible, what's the actual value?
by blovescoffee 3y ago
I love cooking and science. I cannot figure out why anyone would want to cook a salmon in ice? even if it's possible, what's the actual value?
- nsxwolf 3y agoWondering the same thing. Is this a culinary technique, or just a way to show off some novel directed energy cooking technology?
- lifestyleguru 3y agoShowing off to other rich obnoxious people.
- FpUser 3y agoThis, except "obnoxious". Nice uninformed person could still fall for it
- lifestyleguru 3y agoThey have no interest to befriend nice non rich people.
- drewcoo 3y agoWhich presumably sells more ovens!
- bombcar 3y agoA surprisingly large number of these high end ovens are sold into houses where they are literally never used. I'm talking touring a ten year old house and I open the oven and the original manual is still taped to the grill. At least in this case it might be shown off as a party trick.
- lifestyleguru 3y agoIt made one wife once very excited though.
- hammock 3y agoThe frozen outer layer seals in moisture and flavor, preventing the food from overcooking or drying out during the cooking process
- aacid 3y agodon't we have more effective ways to seal in moisture and flavor than freezing fish in block of ice?
- hammock 3y agoYes. But not more effective ways of demonstrating this technology
- blovescoffee 3y agoIf this technology is actually worth $10k, there should be a demonstration of an actually valuable cooking process with it. This contrived demo makes it feel less valuable than it might be (I don't really know if it's actually valuable...)
- itishappy 3y agoScroll down. This is the first of ten examples.
- thfuran 3y agoDoesn't not overcooking it also prevent overcooking?
- mrkeen 3y agoLet's say I've got a cooked fish sitting in ice, scales & eyeballs included, how do I get that to a state where I could serve it? Is there a recipe where already-cooked frozen fish is an ingredient?
- bagels 3y ago
- brokencode 3y agoI don’t think there’s a reason for it, it’s just really cool.
- joshspankit 3y agoWe regularly underestimate the value in people doing impractical things at the leading edge. Many restaurants around the world are feverishly hungry for new cooking techniques that they can use to explore new approaches and create fundamentally new dishes. Sous vide is a more recent one and it was used to create all sorts of new approaches that had effects for home cooks as well as people outside the cooking world altogether.
- undersuit 3y agoIt's not cooking the salmon in ice. A block of ice was hollowed out, the fillet was put inside, the block was supposedly covered with a layer of ice and then the Dialog oven only heated the salmon inside of the ice.