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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, April 04, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

Why would you choose to steam vegetables over simmering or boiling?

— Sarah Harbin

Answer:

So just different methods steaming, you know can really keep a lot of the flavor and texture to them where boiling you're going to get a lot of the nutrients. It will actually go out into the The water so if you're boiling something like I don't know like asparagus you'll see your water is actually kind of green afterward. Or simmering you're going to get like a little bit of a charred Edge down the edge of it too. So it's gonna add a different kind of texture. So steaming will keep it kind of in its closer to the original state. I guess simmering will give you just kind of a little bit of char on it just and it could be a very slight versus boiling will be close to the steam, but it's gonna dissipate some of the flavor in the nutrients of the water.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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