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Again...Its not me thats wrong...I didn't decide the proper method of preparing scrambled eggs. Again, that doesn't mean you have to prepare or eat them any other way than you like. Actually if you cook scrambled eggs that long then yes, you are overcooking them and that is not the correct way to prepare anything. Yes there are many ways to prepare food to pleases many different palates...but that has nothing to do with whether or not that method is the correct way or not.
Is this a trick question? Its like steak, they should not be cooked past medium rare. But if you like it that way then by all means....its your egg.
Right...thats me to a tee. Thats actually what I do in my spare time....wait....do you know me?
AGAIN...Its not me you are disagreeing with...its accepted culinary knowledge. Thats what is making you ignorant.
If you think that culinary techniques taught to professional chefs is nonsense, then I got news for you. You can't cook.
I wouldn't say you need special training, you can teach yourself but I only know of a handful of "cookbooks" that actually teach cooking techniques instead of just regurgitating a list of recipes.
Anyone interested in learning how to actually prepare food would find the following authors of great help.
Julia Childs
Jacques Pepin
James Peterson
any books by the Culinary Institute of America
Gosh, you'd think that someone who thinks they know EVERYTHING about what's right in the culinary field, and has the bad grace to call someone IGNORANT for disagreeing with you (and whoever you might want to cite) ... would know that the woman's name is Julia Child, not Julia Childs.
It's ridiculous to think that there's "accepted culinary knowledge" that are unbreakable rules, I don't know what to say. Cooking is an art form. And in art, there are no formulas or rules.
As the video pointed out, eggs are scrambled differently in different places.
To cook has a very simple definition: to prepare food with heat. Egg + heat = cooked egg. Cooking an egg wrong would be not using heat. James Beard may have a preferred method, but it's not like he invented cooked eggs. Instead of "wrong," the accurate description would be "different from the way James Beard likes his eggs."
Scrambling some eggs for breakfast? Be warned: They're "one of the most overcooked dishes in America," food writer Michael Ruhlman tells NPR. "We kill our eggs with heat." What we should really be doing, he says, is cooking them "very slowly over very gentle heat." That way, "the curds form," and "the rest of the egg sort of warms but doesn't fully cook and becomes a sauce for the curds.
I agree and I wish more people knew that. Salmonella can be found in runny, slightly cooked eggs. I tell this to people who tell me they love runny eggs and they act like I'm crazy!
According to the American Egg Board’s Egg Safety reference, an average consumer might encounter a contaminated egg once every 84 years.
Yes...very risky. Much more risky than getting in a car...or flying...or swimming.
Just to clarify. You do realize salmonella isn't like the plague or something. Unless you have some immune deficiency then its pretty much like getting the stomach virus for a few days.
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Okay, right, I believe you........hahahaha
I can guarantee you I have better references for my cooking and baking than most. I even have several women whom I have never met hate me because their husbands carry on about how wonderful my cooking is. Actually, just 2 weeks ago a very good friend who does not like macaroni and cheese ate 3 helpings in our home because he loved the macaroni and cheese I made. My own cheese sauce, fresh pasta made in my kitchen right before it was prepared. Yup, I do not know how to cook. I normally feed more people in a week than most do in a year when it comes to guests and good, healthy, full of flavor meals. So me and mine I'll stick to my own cooking and baking and if you think all of those "professionals" are so wonderful you stick with them and I'm glad you will never be invited to my home for supper but that is absolutely your loss and not mine.
Awkward...
Like one of those times people say no a few too many times denying something.
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Gosh, you'd think that someone who thinks they know EVERYTHING about what's right in the culinary field, and has the bad grace to call someone IGNORANT for disagreeing with you (and whoever you might want to cite) ... would know that the woman's name is Julia Child, not Julia Childs.
It's ridiculous to think that there's "accepted culinary knowledge" that are unbreakable rules, I don't know what to say. Cooking is an art form. And in art, there are no formulas or rules.
I don't recall claiming to know everything about the culinary field. I don't recall being a Julia Child fan either. I honestly have read exactly one of her books a very long time ago, but it was good and I do recommend it.
Cooking is only part art, its also part science. Its the last part that has rules.
I didn't claim there were any "unbreakable" rules. In fact I said go ahead and break them, just stop trying to convince yourself and other people that you aren't breaking them.
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IGNORANT
[ig-ner-uhnt]
adjective
1. lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
2. lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact: ignorant of quantum physics.
3. uninformed; unaware.
4. due to or showing lack of knowledge or training: an ignorant statement.
I wasn't calling anybody a name by pointing out that they were ignorant of accepted culinary techniques.
Cooking is only part art, its also part science. Its the last part that has rules.
Cooking is an art. Baking is a science.
The only people overly concerned with "accepted culinary techniques" are the pretentious group who call themselves "foodies," and are generally unable to cook themselves, and people with no imagination or creativity.
...the pretentious group who call themselves "foodies,"...
Yikes!! I'm a "foodie" - I appreciate the art, the science, and the subtlety of food and its preparation. I'm more disappointed by those who generalize and stereotype.
The only people overly concerned with "accepted culinary techniques" are the pretentious group who call themselves "foodies," and are generally unable to cook themselves, and people with no imagination or creativity.
All baking is cooking, cooking might be baking. One of the most artful expressions found in the cooking world is found in baking, cakes.
Alton Browns, a classically trained chef, entire show theme was based on a scientific approach to cooking. Not that foodnetwork is the paradigm of great cooking, but they do have a some real chefs and a few of them actually teach cooking techniques. On the other hand they also have "Bitchin Kitchin".
I think all good chefs could by definition also be labeled "foodies", so not sure where you are going with that.
Look, this has been fun but we are kind of past the point of devolving into a "yes it does", "no it doesnt" grade school argument. Nothing has been added to the discussion in the last few pages, so with that, I am signing off.
I can't stand the white not fully cooked, which is why I always order my eggs over medium and not over easy. Sometimes I still end up with the white not fully cooked. Sometimes I end up with the white cooked, but the yolk hard. I don't think even cooks in a breakfast place know how to cook eggs.
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Thats actually what I do in my spare time....wait....do you know me?
