I’m starting to suspect Dr. Oetker’s credentials may not be real…
FWIW - this picture has been floating around since the mid 2000’s; the person who blogged about it cooked it super wrong. The instructions said to use a bain marie, and they didnt know what a bain marie, but saw you boiled water in it, so they just boiled the can. If you boil a can, water is 100% going to seep into it, and turn it into…what you see here.
Ok so wtf is a bain marie?
Wait are these cans not watertight?
They are in the same way any canned good is. If you boil it, the can is likely to warp slightly and allow water in, also things like plastic liners and other chemicals can leech into your food, you generally aren’t supposed to cook food inside the cans they come in.
Canned food is literally pasteurized in said can, while submerged in water at temperatures slightly lower than 100 °C. The whole reason to put food in cans is to create an airtight atmosphere that can be thermally treated with hot water. This kills certain spores (mainly botulinum) which is why canned food has a very long shelf life.
It’s still not correct to cook the food that way, but not because of the reason you made up.
Pretty sure Ashens covered Trekking food in an old video on yt.
I’ve noticed Ashens is kind of winding down, release schedule is basically just the holidays now, has he announced anything? Retiring etc?
Haven’t heard anything about retiring yet. I think part of it is a lot of the pound shops he depended on for tat have gone away. On top of that, after all these years I would guess that he is running out of novel junk from his collection to talk about. He’s also been working on his feature films too, which may be more rewarding to him in the long run than reviewing wonky toys and terrible food.
I’m cool with him slowing down as long as he’s enjoying himself.
I think he is running out of stuff a bit, yes. IMO he should open his PO Box back up. though the more spaced out releases do make it easier to post new videos in !ashens@lemmy.world “on time” (quotes because it’s not really as on time as you’d think)
