Talk:Low-temperature cooking

Sleight of Hand, or One of these things is not like the others

The Theory section starts by declaring that there are four reasons meat is cooked and establishing claims that non-standard techniques such as Low-temperature cooking can address these in different ways. The four reasons are given as:

• to tenderise it
• to provide additional flavours
• to kill harmful bacteria
• to kill parasites

After that introductory paragraph, there are four subheadings that appear to elaborate on these reasons with the implication being that Low-temperature cooking can address them differently for aesthetic and possibly nutritional gain. The four subheadings are:

• Tenderisation
• Flavour
• Bacteria
• Gravy

Hopefully the area in need of a rewrite (or at least restructuring) is evident. (Unless this technique proposes making gravy out of parasites, in which case further information is required in addition to the necessary restructuring.)

I don't have the knowledge required to fix this article, so I have made no changes to the page itself. I place this note here in hope that someone more familiar with the subject will read this and act. 24.21.189.34 (talk) 07:48, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Risk of Infection

The article does not address the risk of multiplying bacteria at the 'Low Temperature Cooking' in a sufficient manner: True, most bacteria are on the surface of food, but some are not. Furthermore, some bacteria are rather tough to kill and need you extended times at high temperature to succeed.--DrJunge (talk) 12:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not an expert on microbiology, so can only really repeat what's in the articles I'm summarising. However, I'm under the impression that the technique as described is used by a number of restaurants worldwide, and has been featured on TV cooking shows and described in newspaper and magazine articles without significant incidents of food poisoning resulting from it, so can only assume that it is relatively safe. I certainly don't see a substantial difference between this and the practice of having a blue steak. JulesH (talk) 20:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Moved from comment on main page

anyone know the specific cooking techniques involved, e.g. dry-heat methods such as baking or moist-heat methods such as braising? How does this differ from crockpots or sous vid? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wombat1138 (talk • contribs)

Dry heat. As it says in the introduction, its a variant of roasting. The difference between it and a crockpot/sous-vide is primarily in not having to immerse the meat to be cooked in a liquid, and is performed at standard air pressure. JulesH (talk) 20:19, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

References

Anon user's tagging of this article

While I agree with some of the points made, I disagree with others.

• There is no need to completely rewrite this article. The tone is appropriate, and a very large proportion of the content is adequately sourced.
• I've left in the single source/inline citation tags. While I don't believe having a single source is necessarily a problem, I understand the desire to expand based on another source. I also don't believe lacking inline citations is a problem in a single-sourced article, but again can see the motivation to change.
• I've removed the weasel words tag. There is nothing weaselly about the sentence it was attached to, although I agree that the sentence is unsourced and have thus left the fact tag attached to it.
• The comment in the introduction that the technique is unusual was unsourced, and I do not believe it would be easy to source it. While I consider it common sense that this is true (99%+ of books on cooking techniques do not mention this technique as a possibility, and the technique has only come to greater attention recently because of Heston Blumenthal's extraordinary success), it probably should not be included if we cannot source it, therefore I have removed the statement. JulesH (talk) 23:18, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Dishwasher method?!

A curious, even weird method, hardly something to be taken seriously. There ought to be more appropriate examples of low temperature cooking than using the dishwasher.--Dvd-junkie (talk) 02:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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