Gordon Ramsay has earned himself a reputation as a celebrity chef and with an adventurous palate. While this makes for great entertainment for us viewers, it doesn’t always look so pleasant for Ramsay. Take this clip from the 2011 season of his show, “Gordon’s Great Escape.” In it, the chef pays a visit to Vietnam and is served a rare delicacy: the beating heart of a snake… Here’s our mild NSFW warning if you don’t have a strong stomach… Well, I’ll be honest…that looks like a very stressful eating situation. And that poor snake! Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/snake-heart/
Dishwashers have been used for one general purpose for a long time now. But people who grew bored of the appliance only accomplishing one task have found a genius way of utilizing it for even more. Enter: dishwasher cooking. Yes, it sounds gross and soapy and not very healthy, but if you do it correctly, you can prepare some delicious meals in the dishwasher while your plates and utensils get clean, too! What you need to do in order for this to work is place your food in an air-tight container. Turn the dishwasher on its highest setting and it’ll do the work for you! The hot water rushing around the containers means that everything from vegetables to seafood and even poultry is cooked evenly! Unbelievable! Yes, you can even cook lobster in the dishwasher. To see a complete instructional guide on how to cook in the dishwasher, watch this video. (via Daily Edge) If you are looking for some recipes for dishwasher cooking, click on this link. It has quite a few options. If you’re feeling adventurous, try to make up your own! Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/dishwasher-cooking/
A self-professed food geek has developed a sleek kitchen gadget that makes high-end sous vide cooking accessible in your own home. Sous vide is a cooking technique where food is kept in a water bath that is held at a consistent, low temperature. As explained in the video below, the sous vide method can’t overcook food in the water, allowing consistent results each time you make something. It is partially similar to cooking with a crock pot, in that you can plan a meal ahead and leave food cooking for hours at a time. Seattle-based Scott Heimendinger and Lukas Svec created the Sansaire immersion circulator, which heats and holds water at a very precise temperature, circulating the water to even out hot and cold spots. The consistent results give you evenly-cooked food, as show in the image below (sous vide on left, versus traditionally-cooked on right). Sous vide is a technique we’ve seen in restaurants, but Heimendinger told Mashable it makes sense in the home environment “because it removes you from the role of human thermostat.” In an oven, the temperature is higher so you can overcook food. With sous vide, the water bath is set at or slightly above the intended temperature you want the food to reach. Heimendinger said he cooks a medium-rare steak via sous vide at about 52 degrees Celsius. Afterwards, he uses a blow torch to quickly sear the steak. Heimendinger, also founder of the blog SeattleFoodGeek.com, said he first discovered this technique when he went out to dinner and had a side salad with a sous-vide-cooked egg on top. “The texture was so incredible,” he told Mashable. “It was so perfectly cooked. The yolk: it was thick but still runny, and the white was like pudding … There was something totally special and different about it, and I had to know how it came to be so.” Along with cofounder Svec, Heimendinger wants to take their Sansaire gadget into full-scale production by raising funds on Kickstater. Their project hit its $100,000 goal in about 13 hours, when it first launched in early August. With 13 days still left to go in the Kickstarter campaign, backers had already pledged more than $516,000, as of Friday afternoon. The Sansaire costs $199, much lower than the pro $1,200 circulators Heimendinger says he traditionally saw on the market. This summer, competitor Nomiku also raised more than a half-million dollars on Kickstarter for its immersion circulator. The Nomiku device currently costs $359. A Food Geek Heimendinger (pictured above, left) said he has always had some interest in food, noting that both his parents were good cooks and used to have a lot of dinner parties. “When I got to college, I got more interested in cooking on my own, mostly because the food on campus was pretty terrible,” he said. Heimendinger studied information systems at Carnegie Mellon University and has worked for IBM and Microsoft. He’s now involved with Modernist Cuisine, a Seattle-area research lab that merges the art […]
Sometimes in life, there’s a camera in the right place at the right time. As it turns out, this video shows us one of those instances. When a young woman decided to record herself microwaving an egg for all the Internet to see, something happened that made us burst out laughing (mainly due to secondhand embarrassment). Please don’t try this nonsense at home. Yeah…I don’t think she’ll be doing that again anytime soon. Just a hunch. Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/microwave-egg/
