Timeline for Why pour water over the covering plate while cooking okra?
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| Oct 27, 2015 at 20:04 | comment | added | MaxW | Well an uncover pot and a cover one are different. With a covered pot you end up with a steamer "above" a boiling liquid, but is not a pressure cooker. Chicken and dumpling is a favorite of mine and you must use a lid to get the dumplings to rise. I'm not thinking of dense noodle like dumplings but ones cooked on top of the liquid that have an fluffy interior like a biscuit. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 19:40 | comment | added | rumtscho♦ | Interesting. After your answer, I agree that the water-weighted plate does not create a pressure cooker, despite the claim of the top answer. But seeing how upvoted the top answer is, it seems that people readily believe it (it fooled me at first too). So it may very well be the actual reason behind the practice, due to cooks telling the story to each other, even if the belief behind it is false. So I'm very confused about whether the top answer should be upvoted (because it's a good candidate for explaining the reason) or downvoted (because it promotes a false reason)... | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 3:27 | comment | added | MaxW | @blokedownthepub - Exactly. A stack of plates should have the same effect if I'm right. // As far as moment of inertia its convoluted. Let's look at it this way. If you could suspend the stack of plates 1 mm above the pan, then the plate wouldn't rattle on the pan. Think of using three paper clips on the edge of the pan to just hold the plate above the edge. | |
| Oct 27, 2015 at 0:13 | comment | added | user40324 | Moment of inertia? Is the plate spinning? If you wanted to just weigh it down why not use another plate? | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 23:37 | history | answered | MaxW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |