Harold McGee

And so, you know, it was him.

He had no formal training whatsoever, but it would be him like flipping through Harold McGee.

and then you know ruining the kitchen for weeks on end like learning how to make a mozzarella that you would not really want to eat but um there was something about the kind of the process of the whole thing that i found kind of fascinating i knew from a young age that this was all that i was going to do was going to be you know messing around with kitchen gadgets and uh Yeah, somehow here we are.

I hope he never hears this.

Oh, wow.

So, um, it works great, and I, I actually think Harold McGee-

Mm-hmm

... who we should honestly have on this podcast, 'cause he would be like, "That's wrong.

So that is my favorite way to thaw meat, and there is actually evidence.

I will link to an article from The Splendid Table where Lynn Rosetto Kasper interviewed Harold McGee, I love Harold McGee, love Lynn Rosetto Kasper also, about this, and there were some science labs, some food science labs, that did the studies and tracked the bacteria growth and found out that this is perfectly safe.

So I will link to that for you in the show notes in case you aren't sure.

But this is wonderful for when you are in a hurry and you have some kind of meat in the freezer that you wanna thaw.

Oh, constantly.

[laughs] We have to start with the patron saint of food nerds everywhere, Harold McGee.

Yes, Harold McGee.

He published On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen back in 1984, and his background is what makes this book so incredibly unique.

He wasn't a chef, right?

The neon-colored blender recipes are a dead end.

A total dead end.

Instead, you need to understand the fundamental chemistry of your ingredients, like Harold McGee teaches with his emulsions.

It's fine.

I remember doing this story with, um, Harold McGee about, about-

My guy.

I love him so much

Nastassia.

I was at a freaking restaurant with Harold McGee I was at a restaurant with Harold McGee two nights ago in what's it called Cambridge and the dude next to me With his person he was with, they were watching a game on their freaking phone out loud next to me.

And if he didn't have like a hundred pounds and seven inches on me, I would have reached across and been like, oh, you know what I mean? No one wants to hear that.

A conversation is a one sided.

It was given out.

How the heck did we get on Hitler Times? We're not normally a Hitler style show.

Although I do have an interesting story about Harold McGee and Hitler, which I might have told recently on the show.

I can't remember who I was talking to about it.