How I grilled the best steaks I've ever eaten

Not a ringing endorsement… personally I stick to cheese, nuts and fruit when eating on trains and airlines. British Air serves a decent scone with clotted cream, but I don’t generally eat processed carbs (I drink them instead! Mmmm, beer).

If I was going to sous vide (which obviously I’m not) I think I’d stick with high-end reusable silicone bags, to decrease the amount of waste, and I’d keep my eyes open for empirical studies of the health impact of silicone.

Wow, I never worked in a restaurant quite that nasty. Thanks for the warning!

Well, I’m not doing it, so I can’t be doing it wrong :slight_smile: and I think you misinterpreted my posts, since I’ve never once suggested that boil-in-bag and sous vide are the same technique. The commonality between them that concerns me is that I don’t like them; in this way they are also similar to Axl Rose’s vocal stylings and Robert Silverberg’s novel Son of Man, neither of which I have attempted to boil although it is tempting.

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Considering that it’s been used in all kinds of medical implants for quite some time, has been generally been determined not to react with food or beverages, and is usable in cookware that goes 3 - 4 times hotter than sous-vide cooking would, there’s probably not much risk there.

Considering that pretty much anything that you cook in will leach something into your food, you’re going to have a very hard time finding something that’s definitively safe, no matter what cooking method you’re using. And even if you do decide a certain material is “safe”, that doesn’t say anything about what various manufacturers might have added to it either knowingly or unknowingly. If you look at it as absolutes (safe vs unsafe), you’re pretty much screwed.

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Yeah, totally agree about the silicone. Seems unlikely to be a problem, but since it’s apparently not been actually studied I’d still keep my ears open for any empirical studies. Also, unlike common plastics, I can’t taste or smell silicone. (Pro tip: if you use wax paper instead of plastic to wrap sandwiches it prevents that nasty airplane-food odor).

As for cooking with stuff that doesn’t leach into your food, there’s always glass and pyrex, and there are also substances that I want to leach into the food (like iron for example, or in specific circumstances copper).

want to invest in my antigravity infrared-beam cooker?

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and no one has shared America’s Test Kitchen’s take on steaks? (don’t defrost, put them on the grill (or oven) while still frozen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ch3PMDe30

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Been having a very restricted diet for some time, always used to have sliced boston butt cutlets (probably the wrong words here, but that cut is used for cutlets here anyway, or at least, slices…) in the freezer, frozen really nice and flat. Got really nice results just popping them in a pan and frying them! Did read that tip online somewhere, not what you linked, but still - very handy if you want to have something in the freezer that you can cook in a yiffy. At least since it was one of the few things I could eat at the time. :wink:

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