S/O meal planning

ucgrad · January 2012

So, you know how you were always told that if you want to "speed defrost" meat, you can put it in cold water for 30 minutes or so? And they also said never to use hot water.

Well, over Christmas I was reading Cooks Illustrated, and there was a note in there that the FDA recently approved defrosting meat in hot water (CI tested with almost boiling water). The test defrosted chicken in 5 minutes.

I feel like my life has been changed! My chicken always starts to get cooked when I defrost in the microwave.

misscastle · January 2012

I always defrost meat in hot water and have never gotten sick. I'm a risk-taker like that, though :-p

SarahKate31 · January 2012

ucgrad:
So, you know how you were always told that if you want to "speed defrost" meat, you can put it in cold water for 30 minutes or so? And they also said never to use hot water.

Well, over Christmas I was reading Cooks Illustrated, and there was a note in there that the FDA recently approved defrosting meat in hot water (CI tested with almost boiling water). The test defrosted chicken in 5 minutes.

I feel like my life has been changed! My chicken always starts to get cooked when I defrost in the microwave.

Ugh, I get so angry when the edges start to cook!

Good to know about the hot water. If I use that method I usually use room temp-ish water but it takes awhile.

EverAfter07 · January 2012

misscastle:
I always defrost meat in hot water and have never gotten sick.

Same here. That's how my mom always did it and I do it the same way.

LoveLossHopeRepeat · January 2012

Good to know!

I'm vehemently against defrosting in the microwave because I hate that the chicken starts to cook around the edges and feels rubbery. It grosses me out.

My Mom used to just thaw stuff on the counter overnight/all day, but if I did that, DH would have a conniption.

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