Habitual overcooking
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If there's one thing I hate it's bloody habitual overcooking of food. The other half spent 15 minutes boiling eggs in the air fryer, thereafter the shells were glued on.
It's the combination of pre heating whatever for longer than necessary, then the maximum cook time at maximum temperature, plus some time on top 'just to be sure'. My parents are also culprits.
Does this (pardon the pun) boil anyone else's piss?
It's the combination of pre heating whatever for longer than necessary, then the maximum cook time at maximum temperature, plus some time on top 'just to be sure'. My parents are also culprits.
Does this (pardon the pun) boil anyone else's piss?
How do you boil eggs in an air fryer?
EDIT:
Ah, like this https://cookathomemom.com/air-fryer-eggs/
Would never have thought of that
EDIT:
Ah, like this https://cookathomemom.com/air-fryer-eggs/
Would never have thought of that
Isn’t overcooking the same as not cooking for the correct amount of time. The same principle would apply to undercooking food.
Cooking is both an art and a science, and knowing how long to cooking come with experience.
I suppose some people just like to air on the safe side and nuke their food.
Cooking is both an art and a science, and knowing how long to cooking come with experience.
I suppose some people just like to air on the safe side and nuke their food.
I do two boiled eggs in my air fryer, 15 minutes at 120C, and they're fine - as I'm usually slicing them for sandwiches I want them to be hard boiled. Sometimes the shell brings a bit of egg white with it, but not always and not much.
I guess what they say on the packet (not the eggs packet, other packets) about "all appliances vary" must be true.
My mother used to overcook stuff - her idea was that cooking stuff for longer would make it softer, perhaps some confusion from using the slow cooker a couple of times. It was always edible, but it's funny how she'd take several hours to cook some oven chips and a few pieces of oven-cook chicken or fish, and I can do the same (albeit for one person) in 25 minutes, the time it says on the packets they come in. I expect it was just habit, and not wanting to waste the food / harm the rest of us by undercooking it, and leave us without a meal if it all went wrong. She resisted getting a fan oven for ages, because it would mean re-learning cooking times, and I expect she wouldn't have wanted an air fryer for the same reason.
I guess what they say on the packet (not the eggs packet, other packets) about "all appliances vary" must be true.
My mother used to overcook stuff - her idea was that cooking stuff for longer would make it softer, perhaps some confusion from using the slow cooker a couple of times. It was always edible, but it's funny how she'd take several hours to cook some oven chips and a few pieces of oven-cook chicken or fish, and I can do the same (albeit for one person) in 25 minutes, the time it says on the packets they come in. I expect it was just habit, and not wanting to waste the food / harm the rest of us by undercooking it, and leave us without a meal if it all went wrong. She resisted getting a fan oven for ages, because it would mean re-learning cooking times, and I expect she wouldn't have wanted an air fryer for the same reason.
When I was younger my mother was terrible for it, I vividly remember pork loins as hard as concrete.
Her steak cooking method was the best though. "I know you asked for medium rare, and the recipe says 6 mins for medium rare, so I've given it 8 mins to be sure". Brilliant, thanks......
Her steak cooking method was the best though. "I know you asked for medium rare, and the recipe says 6 mins for medium rare, so I've given it 8 mins to be sure". Brilliant, thanks......
Water conducts heat something like 25 times better than air so presumably the heat transfer in to the egg is slower in an air fryer than it is in water.
Re. the shell being difficult to get off, try sticking the eggs straight in to cold water a soon as you've finished cooking them, this usually makes them a lot easier to peel
Re. the shell being difficult to get off, try sticking the eggs straight in to cold water a soon as you've finished cooking them, this usually makes them a lot easier to peel
RizzoTheRat said:
Water conducts heat something like 25 times better than air so presumably the heat transfer in to the egg is slower in an air fryer than it is in water.
Re. the shell being difficult to get off, try sticking the eggs straight in to cold water a soon as you've finished cooking them, this usually makes them a lot easier to peel
...and use a spoon twixt shell & white. Works a treat.Re. the shell being difficult to get off, try sticking the eggs straight in to cold water a soon as you've finished cooking them, this usually makes them a lot easier to peel
Slow.Patrol said:
Ex mother in law - Brussels sprouts.
Boiled into a soggy green slop.
We had Christmas Dinner there once. I literally had indigestion for six weeks. I had to get some special medicine from the GP.
Sounds like my MIL's cooking. Boiled into a soggy green slop.
We had Christmas Dinner there once. I literally had indigestion for six weeks. I had to get some special medicine from the GP.
veg cooked al dente, then another 30 minutes just to be sure.
SmoothCriminal said:
What benefit is there to doing it in the air fryer?
I can literally think of none
I'm still uncertain about how to tell when a pan of water gets to the correct temperature for boiling eggs (I can't remember whether anyone actually answered that last time I mentioned it, and can't find the thread to check) or how long to leave them in for, so to be able to stick them in the air fryer at a specific temperature for a specific time works well for me. I also don't have to wait however long it takes to get that pan up to boiling point, the air fryer is up to 120C in a minute or two but beeps loudly when it's got there. And I feel better about leaving them and doing something else while they're in the air fryer, but have memories of the pan "boiling over" sometimes when my mother did them in a pan, so would feel the need to watch it.I can literally think of none
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