• Kata1yst
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    216 months ago

    A double boiler, sometimes called a “hot water bath”.

    Basically a container with what you’re cooking inside over the top of a pot of heated water.

    It heats things up evenly and gently.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      Ok i know what a double boiler is and what theyre for. I’ve never heard them called that before

      • Skeezix
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        -46 months ago

        People use fancy words when they want something to seem important.

        • Kushan
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          76 months ago

          It’s what it’s known as outside of the USA and the term has existed since about 300AD.

    • MacN'Cheezus
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      76 months ago

      Judging by the can, this thing is meant for multi-day backpacking trips, and you’re telling me that on top of tent, sleeping pad, change of clothes, propane stove etc. I have to bring a freaking bain marie along and do some french cooking nonsense in order to get this to taste right, when the patty already looks more like an industrially manufactured pipe seal?

      Sure, no problem, I got my bain marie right here, next to my solar powered sous vide oven and my portable overnight charcoal smoker. I don’t need room for water or sunscreen or anything, having a gourmet canned cheeseburger is far more important.

      LOL
      LMAO, even

    • @John_McMurray
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      46 months ago

      A Bain-Mairie is specifically a “hot water bath” of a ramekin in a pan full of water in the oven. Double boilers are stove top pot of in/on another pot of water.

      • Kata1yst
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        16 months ago

        In the baking world that is absolutely true. But it’s sometimes used more broadly in my experience, idk.

    • @kuneho
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      16 months ago

      we call this cooking sth “over steam”