I think at that point, you need hope, more than you need shelter, more than you need food, more than you need a blanket. Steaming is a great healthy way to eat.
And when the volcano on the island began to explode, Georges Hebert hops in his life raft. And he starts steaming in towards shore trying to save lives. And what he saw were tens of thousands of people-- one of the greatest natural disasters, at that time, in history-- tens of thousands
Now you can pan fry them and they're delicious but I still wanted to do the water cooking. And I realized that steaming them worked very well. So instead of putting them all the way in the water, I allowed the water to come to them to cook them.
So your steak is sitting there at 210 or 212 degrees until that water goes away. So you're steaming the meat, it sticks to the pan. The Maillard reaction, which as I said is amino acids and sugars creating flavor compounds, doesn't happen 'til over 300 degrees, so you're not going to get any browning.
And modern tequila makers are often doing them in just giant autoclaves. And they're steaming them instead of doing the slow underground roasting process. But that's really the first step.
wrap it tie poke some holes in the top of it and put that underneath the grate close to the to the burner as well the uh the wood will start steaming and then it'll smolder then it'll produce uh some smoke to flavor your your
There are instructions in our book, how to wash and how to cook. So, steaming hot Japanese rice here. And we're going to put it in now.
organic solution of stuff that might be there from infall from synthesis. Hot water, steaming volcanism all over the place, and little ponds that we can use as experiments. Here's a fumarole. And I reached down in the fumarole just to test whether any organic material was there, anything alive. And I pulled out a flask full of mud. We took this back to my lab here at Santa Cruz and analyzed it.
it's easy to prepare so you won't have to we have a saying that goes fono never embarrasses the cook cuz fono is really just steaming water salt and then you can even cook it in your microwave after that anything you want to accompany it with it could be made with a salad like
a temperature-dependent reaction, you now realize right, cooking methods that don't get that hot won't trigger that reaction. So, you have to get things that hot to get that reaction. When we think about steaming or boiling something, well, it's gonna bring a loss of flavors. Then at around 356, 360, somewhere in that territory, our cookie gets turned even darker brown. And this is from caramelization, as you guys were guessing earlier.
I like this--this is beautiful, he just steams them, do you put it in olive oil or yeah, at the end, but just steaming greens when they're incredibly tasty--that's what is best, just slicing a tomato. Now, but we have lost all of our confidence in being able to cook and we think that really cooking is about complication in a way that we really
Right? Wrap it in plastic and just let it sit. And like that, you're cooking it a little bit more and a little bit longer, and you're also steaming it up a little bit. The skin is easier to remove.
and the blue lines are the cell walls of the potato. Here's an example spread where we show what's going on. This is actually the first picture I took for the book to see if this cutaway thing would work. And it kind of did. This is steaming broccoli. So all of the little text boxes around the outside explain what's going on. What's happening with the boiling? What's happening with the condensation? How is it heating? Up in the corner, there's a box that
around because he knows the kids love them. He's -- he doesn't need them to fly. Umm, but let's assume that he did do it the standard way: Reindeer from rooftop to rooftop, umm, you know, steaming out of the North Pole, landing on a roof, going down the chimney, looking around, dropping off the presents, going back up the chimney and going on to
Baking and planked fish. That's it. That's it for fish cookery. Now, I wanted to take it -- and take it to a slightly different level -- so we started talking about steaming . Steaming fish is real simple. Aromatic steaming . You could steam it in a bamboo steamer.