/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16354624

Toasting rice gives it a toasty flavor.

Your lids have holes so they can vent. Fine for typical quick meals < 1h, but shitty for long stews > 1h.

Are these the kinds of questions you really want to be asking?

>>16354624
The hole is so you can drain pasta just turn it upside down and hold the lid on.

>>16354624
This is a glass lid thing to relieve built up steam pressure. Otherwise there is a possibility of the lid popping up, then shattering when it slams down.

>>16354853
don't do this, makes mustard gas

>>16354878
Do you live in a fucking cartoon?

>>16354624
so my gf can brap into the food while is cooking

>>16354624
You're American didn't you?

It's to let steam out.

>>16354883
No. I live in a world of observable physics. Tightly fitting lids become even tighter when condensated steam fully seals the gap. The heavier the lid is, the greater the amount of steam pressure that can be built up. If you've ever used PYREX Visions cookware, you'd know the lids can rattle the entire time the steam pressure lifting them up. That glassware was way stronger than the glass lids in current cookware.

>>16354906
Does steam come out of your ears when you get mad too?
>the lid will POOF up to the ceiling and fall back down with a whistle before shattering!

>>16354909
I've only seen them lift up a fraction of an inch, but imagine you were to tap on a piece of glass very lightly with a hammer for hundreds of hours. How long before a crack forms and it shatters?

>>16354909
>Does steam come out of your ears when you get mad too?
Yes. Yes it does.

>>16354929
>imagine you were to tap on a piece of glass very lightly with a hammer for hundreds of hours. How long before a crack forms and it shatters?
Chinese glass? It'd break by the end of the day. American glass? The hammer would break first (assuming it's a Chinese hammer)

Your supposed to fuck it

>>16354906
Oh, so that's why my dutch oven exploded

>>16354628
Why the Oakland whistler

>>16354624
You're meant to plug it up, retard. It keeps in the flavour that way.

>>16354929
glass doesn't deform, it fails catastrophically. it's statistical analysis to determine the "most likely" failure point for a particular make of glass, but it's still hard to predict.

>>16355144
Glass bends.

>>16355154
elastic deformation, there's no(practically no) plastic deformation. you can wobble it back and forth and such but as soon as you push it to the limit it shatters.

>Got Slow cooker as a gift
>Cook up some shanks
>Leave glass lid thing like this to cool
>Hear a bang
>It shattered into a million pieces

>>16354624
>Will this be a problem for making foods like steamed veggies or rice?
No, it will have a gentle release of steam, which is fine and actually a positive.

>>16354624
You can stuck a match or a broken bamboostick in it, if you are afraid from it. The pressure will lift the lid for a few mm (seven and a half-fortififth of an inch and a little) and give off a weird noise, as repeatedly knocks down on the pot.

>>16354906
>i fucking love science

/ck/ has to be the dumbest board on 4chan

>>16354624
It's a fuck hole. It's needed to add sauce.

>>16354909
>he's never had an acme pot lid fall on your head resulting in a 4 foot bump sticking out of the top of your head
Ngmi

>>16354624
>What exactly is the point of this?
Equalize pressure. When a pot is cooling the gas inside contracts. Without any way for air to get in the external pressure would eventually break the glass.

It's so you can stick your meat thermometer in there without having to take the lid off.

>>16355308
lol it's down there for sure. but that's why I keep coming here, despite not giving a shit about cooking

>>16354906
I would bet 10 thousand dollars that you cannot find a single pot whose lid will shoot up and shatter instead of just rattling a bit and spitting water on the sides.

>>16355574
good answer actually, I didn't think of air getting in

>>16354624
The real answer is to prevent shattering if you place the lid on hot soup and let it cool.
The vaccume that gets created can shatter the glass lid if it seals.
Even steal lids can warp if the lid seals to well.

>>16355585
Oh fuckkkkkkkkkkkk

>>16354624
it so your pan doesn't fucking explode as pressure builds up

I like the cooling lid suction answer the best.

>>16355308

no that would be r-eddit9k or /adv.

>>16356230
/tv/ is pretty bad too. The only saving grace there is the cunny posters.

>>16354624
the hole in the lid is to let some of the steam to escape so it doesn't start rattling because of the pressure. The steam inside the pot would be enough to cook the food anyway.
>Is there any advantage to browning the rice first like that?
you have to "toast" the rice in butter for a few minutes when making risotto according to the traditional recipe.

>>16356163
>steal lids

>>16355828
If anon was a dirty bastard and didnt clean his lid properly, carbon and filth could make an airtight seal, causing it to fly off and spray hot water/food/fat. Had a mate in the army who burned himself because the dirty cunt never cleaned his cooking pot properly, saying the crusted crap 'added flavour'.

>>16354624
the hole is a jew scam, it's obviously not for letting air escape that would be insane, it's an excuse to cut material costs. 1000 of those holes is a full lid. Not a bad racket desu

>>16354624
>>16354628
>1 minute later

sus

>>16354624
a.) it's to let the steam out, but has a more specific purpose. if lids are a good fit, chances are, they'll let the pressure build up a bit more before dislodging enough to let steam out first - chance for the lid to blow off. also, pressure cooking. you can clamp the lid down, and install that annoying dildo on top of that hole.

2.) caramelisation

>>16354878
Dumbest shit I've read all day.

>>16354624
The hole is there to remind you of George Floyd.

I plug mine with a little piece of foil when cooking rice. I don't know if it helps, but it gives me peace of mind.

>>16354894

>>16354878
based retard

>>16354624
It's so they can pop the glass out of the mold when it's made at the factory. The metal button is added so there's no raw glass.

That would be my guess.

>>16355279
>t. Waggles dead chickens around to make it rain

>>16354624
it's because they are trying to penny and quarter the customer. By removing a little glass on ever lid they save billions a year. Just look at chips or other items that get reduced by .1 oz for no real

>>16354881
Actually DO do this, op. This anon is gay and/or Jewish.

>>16355279
I almost took his post seriously. Thanks for calling him out.

>>16354895
It's the opposite. It's to let fresh air in if you keep the lid on when the cooked food cools down.

steam can escape out the gap of the lid no problem. But when it cools down, it can create a vacuum seal that sticks the lid to the pot/pan and can make removal very difficult or even break the lid.

Based retard thread.

>>16354624
It's a straw hole so you can sip on the broth or sauce

>>16354624
to try and prevent boil-overs when you're making pasta

>>16357819
this

>>16357660
b+r

>>16354878
still herping the good derp, anon

>>16354624
It allows pressurized gas to escape after I cram it up my ass

>>16357660
delete this

>>16357660
>the goyim knows

>>16354636
>Toasting rice gives it a toasty flavor.
Another insightful insight courtesy of anon.

>>16357660
>By removing a little glass on ever lid they save billions a year.
false
the cost of removing the glass PLUS adding the lil steel ring around the abcess is greater than the cost of simply leaving the extra fraction of a gram of glass per lid.

in principle you're right about saving a fraction of a penny for chips, pizza boxes, etc. at scale (millions of units) fractions of pennies are no joke.
but not with that hole.

great thread guys

>>16355308
>/ck/ has to be the dumbest board on 4chan
I don't think /ck/ is any dumber than
>/mu/
>/tv/
>/gif/
What else are the dumbest boards?

>>16359668
/x/ /sp/ /b/ /a/ /mlp/ /qa/

/biz/ also has a large population of idiots getting sucked in by obvious scams

>>16354624
If you want your kitten meat as fresh as possible, you want to make sure the kitten dies of temperature, not asphyxiation. The tiny hole is so the kitten can breath.

>>16354624
have you ever boiled anything? you know how, if you put a lid on it, it'll bounce up and down if the heat isn't basically minimum? that's why that's there.

>>16359688
>/x/
you gon regret this when you roast in hell for eternity, square

>>16354878
>>16354883
>>16357046
it's to stop the lids from rattling around when the water starts boiling.

>>16358206
that makes sense