quick hot water bath for thawing meats??

[abifae]

Heck, I just toss meat on the counter before work and hope it's thawed when I'm done. If I notice it seems too warm, I chuck it in the fridge. And I've still never been sick. LOL! This is safer with beef than chicken, though.

 

[MorelCabin]

I use my cast iron fry pan to thaw stuff...just put it in the pan and it thaws much more quicly than on the counter...cn't figure it out, but it works

 

[Wannabefree]

Heck, I just toss meat on the counter before work and hope it's thawed when I'm done. If I notice it seems too warm, I chuck it in the fridge. And I've still never been sick. LOL! This is safer with beef than chicken, though.

I do this with all meats. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, venison...they all get thawed on the counter sitting in the sun I'm not scared, and have not gotten sick. I may be resistant to bad thaw cooties or something. Oh well...aint changing it, it still works

 

[abifae]

I do this with all meats. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, venison...they all get thawed on the counter sitting in the sun I'm not scared, and have not gotten sick. I may be resistant to bad thaw cooties or something. Oh well...aint changing it, it still works

Probably we have awesome gut flora now It's not like humans evolved eating carefully safe and FDA approved foods.

 

[ORChick]

I use my cast iron fry pan to thaw stuff...just put it in the pan and it thaws much more quicly than on the counter...cn't figure it out, but it works

Its a heat exchange effect; the metal sucks the cold out of the object to be thawed. I read about someone testing the theory by putting out 2 ice cubes, one on a metal pan, and one in a ceramic bowl, or a cutting board or something non-metallic. The one on the metal thawed faster. I think there was even a *special* metal surface that was for sale a few years ago, just for thawing . As you have noted, a metal pan or cookie sheet works just as well.

 

[Neko-chan]

Heck, I just toss meat on the counter before work and hope it's thawed when I'm done. If I notice it seems too warm, I chuck it in the fridge. And I've still never been sick. LOL! This is safer with beef than chicken, though.

I do this with all meats. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, venison...they all get thawed on the counter sitting in the sun I'm not scared, and have not gotten sick. I may be resistant to bad thaw cooties or something. Oh well...aint changing it, it still works

I agree, I've done both water thawing and counter thawing, and I'm still alive. If it's large pieces of meat though, I usually leave it to thaw in the fridge for a couple days. I do that with large roasts and turkeys.