LOL!! But, I appreciate the end of the article which was saying that pros were recommending steaming and simmering instead of high heat cooking for reasons similar to what has talked about for decades about how high heat can accumulate bad kinds of transformations, though "water based" is more about the benefits of steaming and simmering at lower temperatures, and what those are, than the bads of high heat.

I get that. Most food was cooked mostly with water for most of history. The TikTok part is certainly ridiculous. :) Or...remember when the country turned against boiling? Because of things like boiled chicken (ick for flavor, texture and likely overcookedness) with the cooking water served as "soup". [shudder] Perhaps it takes, "Bro, you invented soup" to relearn it. Or...perhaps the ever so popular steam ovens at all price levels is a hint that the people who actually cook already get it. :)

That reminded me - when I worked in a popular family-owned breakfast & lunch restaurant during HS, one of my tasks was de-boning boiled chickens for salads - they do come out nice and moist that way.

Really boiled like the Jewish (or Eastern European?) grannies did? Or “poached” (simmered well below actual boiling) in the classic way for chicken salad? 😁 You definitely have aseat in the laughing section for the ”Bro, you inventeds….” 😝

The family was Italian-American, but I don't think there was any poaching. They'd cook several whole ones at a time in a huge pot.

Just wait until they discover “heat based cooking”.

Yeah, dry and wet methods of cooking have been around for a long time. However, a lot of people don't know that. A lot of people don't know things that seem like simple cooking notions to others. The science and such behind the methods has been known for a while- but the science learns and changes a lot. I'm not surprised at what seems to be a rediscovery of wet cooking methods on social media.

It amuses or amazes some that are in the know. But maybe it should make one sad instead for the state of affairs our food education is in.

It's crazy how profoundly ignorant so many people in our country are, I agree.

You're right. But we do intoduce the concept of books, as well as the basics of reading them to most of the children, snd it's their choice to prefer a TikTok video from some random dude to Joy, or Mark Bittman's more modern compendium, or for the A/V only crowd, Jamie Oliver's new curriculum of learn 10 adaptable dishes and you'll be able to cook anything. The scientific info about why water based cooking is good for you is newer and enlightening, but its application to ”Bro invented soup,” is just silly, and I don't read more into it than that Dude wants to be a content creator but has yet to learn discernment.

Children are notoriously bad at determining what's in their best interest, what's good for them - and some folks never grow out of that, it seems.

Okay. I have water based cooked today. :) Even watched a pot come to a boil. :)

Cabbage soup with beef bones, canned tomatoes and onions. A rather delicious recipe from a friend.

I tried a picture but it was really bad.