• @macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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        61 month ago

        How you would use one to prepare a tinned cheeseburger I cannot fathom.

        You’d be making the variant known as steamed hams. It’s an Albany expression.

    • Kata1yst
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      201 month 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.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        71 month 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@lemmy.world
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        01 month 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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          11 month ago

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

    • @eerongalA
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      71 month ago

      It’s a lower pot that you boil water in with an upper pot that you put the food in. No water gets near the food, it’s meant for applying even, indirect heat