/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13643602]

How do I thaw frozen chicken breast without ruining it?

[Anonymous No.13643605]

>>13643602
Submerge them in cold water and refrigerate for 24 hours.

[Anonymous No.13643607]

>>13643605
Fuck that I ain't got all day

[Anonymous No.13643615]

put it in the microwave for 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.13643616]

>>13643607
have your mama breathe on it with her hot stank breath

[Anonymous No.13643620]

Run it under hot water thats what I do with a frozen beer can

[Anonymous No.13643630]

>>13643602
you could turn your oven on and off a few times an hour.

[Anonymous No.13643663]

>>13643602
If your chicken breasts are still frozen when you're actually ready to start cooking then you're a fucking idiot and no tips about thawing them is going to help you from ruining anything you try to cook.

[Anonymous No.13643789]

drop all of it immediately on deep fry then wait 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.13643796]

How hard is it to put them in the fridge the day before?

Hell worst case you can sit them out on the counter for ~10 hours.
I go to work at 7:30, i get home around 18:00. If i take out a package of frozen chicken breasts before I leave, they're defrosted by the time I get home.

Pretty simple shit

[Anonymous No.13643816]

>>13643602
the two ways to defrost meat properly are:
1) The best way - Take it out of freeze and put it in the fridge the night before you want to use it. Most pieces of meat the size of a chicken breast, steak, pork chops etc will have completely defrosted in 24 hours. Whole chickens, pork/beef roasts etc will take 1.5 to 2 days
2) The quick way - Submerge in a bowl of cold water, and replace the water every 15 minutes. Do NOT use hot or lukewarm water, and don't forget to replace the water every 15 minutesor the temperature can rise up to the point where bacteria will start to bloom. Unstick any pieces frozen together to ensure proper defrosting. It shouldn't take more than an hour, hour and a half at most.

A note for before freezing, separate the pieces into individual servings before you freeze (assuming they aren't bought frozen) so you aren't defrosting 2 pounds of chicken at a time.
If you are doing mince/ground meat then you should double bag it in case the water leaks in, you don't want soggy ground meat, it's a pain to deal with. Meatballs as well, because defrosting can lead to them getting mushy.

[Anonymous No.13643821]

Remove from packaging amd place into plastoc bag. Submerge in warm water for 30-60 minutes. Use immediately.

[Anonymous No.13643826]

Can use a metal tray/pan to speed up the process. Works like a heat sink in reverse.

[Anonymous No.13643835]

>>13643826
Yup, also your oven might work too, my oven has a metal body and metal top, so it acts as a giant heatsink when something is defrosting on top.

[Anonymous No.13643854]

>>13643821
to add to this, break up the chicken into its individual pieces or if you want it to defrost even faster you can cut it up into small chunks. remove all the air out of the bag you're sticking them in to guarantee full contact of the meat with the water on the other side of the plastic.

don't even need warm water, can do it with cold water.

[Anonymous No.13643886]

>>13643616

[Anonymous No.13643923]

>>13643602
As it has been said, the best way is to put it in the fridge overnight.

Although, when I haven’t got all day or I when I decide to cook something atm, I use defrost option on a microwave. Mine has a weight setting which calculates optimal time. However, it’s not precise and it depends on thickness or how the meat is clumped together. If you microwave it for an additional time, be careful as it may end up half cooked.

[Anonymous No.13643935]

>>13643796
>Hell worst case you can sit them out on the counter for ~10 hours.
do not do this if you want to continue living.

[Anonymous No.13643937]

>>13643854
you're meant to do it with cold water retard.

[Anonymous No.13643941]

>>13643935
Lmao, unless your house is 75f+ inside, you'll have no problems.

Hell half the time I come home and the center of the breasts are still slightly frozen

I've been doing this once or twice a week for 15+ years

[Anonymous No.13643971]

>>13643941
>24 degrees
which is normal room temperature in much of the world at least part of the year

[Anonymous No.13643998]

>>13643971
This is an american site, as much as you might not want it to be.

75f+ would be stupidly hot for an american home, we all have AC units or HVAC systems.

My home is set to 67f, anything higher than that would be a bit unusual. At MOST i'd expect 70-72f for an interior house temp.


Obviously if you're 3rd world and your house is gonna be 75f+ 24/7, don't leave raw meat out.

[Anonymous No.13644512]

Microwave on popcorn for an hour

[Anonymous No.13645091]

>>13643998
what the fuck

are you

trying to say

[Anonymous No.13645395]

>>13643602
>take frozen meat out of freezer
>place on aluminum pan
>place pan in fridge
>come back next day and it's completely thawed
is this not how you are supposed to thaw meat?

[Anonymous No.13645512]

>>13643998
Typical American... he can't construct a proper sentence

[Anonymous No.13645600]

Boil it before you cook it.
If that doesn't work, throw it on the ground until it shatters, then the smaller pieces will thaw faster. Any dirt or debris from the ground will actually help it thaw faster, and in addition all those germs cook off later!

[Anonymous No.13645615]

>>13643602
put them in a large bowl and put them under cold running water for a few hours.

[Anonymous No.13645616]

>>13645091
>>13645512
seething third worlders without home AC

[Anonymous No.13647064]

>>13643602
put it in hot water. It won't give you salmonella

[Anonymous No.13647066]

>>13643602
Move it from the freezer to the fridge two days before you intend to cook it.

[Anonymous No.13648407]

>>13643602
Put it in cold water, some idiots will say hot water but ignore those bitches, you don't want to cook it in the hot water, just thaw it so cold or room temperature water and time.

[Anonymous No.13648594]

>>13643602
Just cook it in a plastic bag with a suvvveedd frozen solid

[Anonymous No.13648773]

>>13648407
What's wrong with hot water. Never used it, but I'm curious why everyone is against it.

[Anonymous No.13648791]

>>13644512
Is this how popcorn chicken is made?

[Anonymous No.13648982]

>>13648773
Its warm enough for bacteria growth to occur.

[Anonymous No.13649322]

>>13643937
that's what my post says you autistic twat