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I was dared to ask this 🙈 And yes, I’ve lost a few friends today… #1 When cooking meat like pork chops and steak, if there's no thermometer around, is it okay to use a cookie cutter to cut a hole in the center to tell when the meat is well done? #2 Can you cook precooked TGI Friday type wings from the freezer section in a crockpot slowcooker without adding liquid?  #3 What went wrong when throwing raw chicken in a crockpot slowcooker and drowning it in Sweet Baby Rays buffalo sauce? Why did they turn out soupy yet fall off the bone like ribs? #4 Is it disrespectful to skip the fork and knife and pick a steak up with your hands and eat it like its a rib? 
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loveslongnails · Accepted Answer

I'm not a trained chef, I just do a lot of cooking, so here's what know.

#1 When cooking meat like pork chops and steak, if there's no thermometer around, is it okay to use a cookie cutter to cut a hole in the center to tell when the meat is well done?
It's ok to use anything you want get a look at center of a pork chop, but remember - depending on the thickness of the chop, pork has a small window of "success" and will continue to cook much faster when removed from heat, than a steak will. If no thermometer is available, I take a slice from the end. If it's cooked thoroughly, I know the inside will still be a little pink so I give it a blast of heat, remove it and start eating. By the time I get to the center, it's still moist and perfect. If it's steak, who cares? LOL Slice the middle open.

#2 Can you cook precooked TGI Friday type wings from the freezer section in a crockpot slow cooker without adding liquid?
You shouldn't cook ANYTHING in a slow cooker without adding liquid !!! You'll crack the pot !! I don't recommend cooking wings in a slow cooker unless you're dumping them in bbq sauce or some kind of marinade. Even then, they'll taste better if you use an oven or even an air fryer.

#3 What went wrong when throwing raw chicken in a crockpot slow cooker and drowning it in Sweet Baby Rays buffalo sauce? Why did they turn out soupy yet fall off the bone like ribs?
That's what happens in a slow cooker. The moisture melts the binders in the meats and they fall off the bones, no matter what the meat is.

#4 Is it disrespectful to skip the fork and knife and pick a steak up with your hands and eat it like its a rib?
It's rather unruly if you ask me, unless it's those tiny bone in steaks that look like chops. It's certainly not a classy thing to do, especially with an expensive steak.

t-8900 · Accepted Answer

Desi for #1: here skip to 1:31 this will help you out without committing a great heresy.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/vxF1n96cpHU

#2 I have no idea I only use fresh ingredients, never precooked

#3 some pre cook the chicken and then throw it in before it's totally done and leave it in the sauce on low heat the rest of the way. Make sure the chicken you buy doesn't have a lot of solution injected for your recipe (when they add 10%+ solution they have committed a great heresy)

#4 It is not properetiquette. You're name is Desi, not Attila the Hun.

To all the chefs out there, please provide some tips to this survey?

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

#1 When cooking meat like pork chops and steak, if there's no thermometer around, is it okay to use a cookie cutter to cut a hole in the center to tell when the meat is well done?
Sure, but I just opened a cut in it, split the meat apart enough to check.

#2 Can you cook precooked TGI Friday type wings from the freezer section in a crockpot slowcooker without adding liquid?
I would recommend not doing that. It's a crockpot, not an oven or air fryer.

#3 What went wrong when throwing raw chicken in a crockpot slowcooker and drowning it in Sweet Baby Rays buffalo sauce? Why did they turn out soupy yet fall off the bone like ribs?
I have no idea. I've never done that before.

#4 Is it disrespectful to skip the fork and knife and pick a steak up with your hands and eat it like its a rib?
Not in my opinion. Eat it how you want, just please don't do it well done. Go with rare, so tender tender much more flavor

Pink2000 · Accepted Answer

#1 yeah that’s fine but it would be simpler to just cut it.
#2 yes but I’d only do that if they had a sauce on em..
3. anytime you cook meat it makes it’s own liquid. You have to drain that off and then add the sauce cause it will definitely end up being soup.
4. not disrespectful

I’m a vegetarian but I cook everything.

Craftsman · Answer

1. My dad and I use a sharp knife to make a cut in the center of the meat to look. Cookie cutter removes too much meat and leaves the area to prone to over-cooking since a hole can act like a chimney for the heat.
2. I've never tried that. Seems to me that it should work, though heat distribution in a crockpot generally relies on liquid to keep all areas relatively the same temperature.
3. In my family we always cooked (fried or baked or barbecued) chicken before adding it into anything. If it's added raw to a liquid, you get a result similar to boiled chicken, which will take the chicken through a slimey state, especially when cooked in something as sugar and salt dense as a buffalo sauce.
There are likely other opinions, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Pick from all the replies to get what works for you, or at least a guiding into a workable result.
Take good care, stay safe and stay healthy!

CaptainRonnie · Answer

#1
Easiest way to tell is to throw the slab of meat against a wall. If it leaves behind a trail of blood as it slides down, it's not well done yet.
#2
Precooked frozen wings are meant to be sucked on like Popsicles. Never dethaw or warm them up.
#3
Try injecting the Buffalo sauce into the chicken with a syringe for an even, inside-out heat distribution
#4
Very disrespectful to use your hands to eat steak. You're meant to leave it on the plate and smash your face and mouth into it with your hands tied behind your back like you're bobbing for apples.

jamesgoldman · Answer

I can answer the two I've experienced

The first I have used a carving knife and cut steaks in half at home... in my restaurant days it was time based and just went back on the grill if it was deemed undercooked by the customer and never saw an overcooked on even the one that sormt 10 minutes in the pizza oven and was served for the 4th time, pretty brittle

The 4th absolutely and i am guilty so having blood (I like steak medium rare) I know it isn't blood but anyway so going full caveman and going red from my elbows to my head is a given

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

1. It's easier to slice it in half down the middle and it gives a better view of the entire slab since the edges are going to cook faster than the center, so cookie cutting the center will only give you an idea of how fast the middle is cooking.

2. Technically yes, since all you need to do is heat it. But it might not come out evenly heated since crockpots are designed to be used with lots of liquids.

3. Because you drowned it in sauce, chicken contains water and fat, mix that with the sauce for a long enough time and it turns to soup, and raw chicken takes a long time to cook.
4. Utensils =/= respect.

Shark_61695 · Answer

1. I stick a knife in, leave it for a moment and test against my lips.
2. Probably not, slow cookers need volume.
3. Dunno, don't do slow cookers, try them in an air dryer, only takes 20 mins.
4. Hmm... a proper steak shouldn't be possible to pick up with ease, if it stays rigid, it is overcooked :) a caveman steak on the other hand... always handy weilding a massive bone.

Phoenix98 · Answer

1# Cookie cutter might be kind of hard to use but the way I do it is I just take a fork and knife and cut a gash into the center then peel it back.

2# I don't know I've never tried it.

3# The sauce turned liquidly and soupy because of all the heat in a enclosed space with nowhere to go.

4# I don't know about disrespectful but it is weird to eat a steak with your hands.

Wiredone · Answer

#1 there is no perfect way to check when steak is done. Everyone likes their steak cooked differently. I like mine medium rare. I make a mean steak on the grill
#2 anything that goes in a crackpot needs water.
#3 you made pulled chicken instead of pulled pork. Put it on a roll and have a BBQ chicken sandwich
#4 it's not disrespectful just so wrong.

whosnumber1 · Answer

#3. it was in the slow cooker too long. the humidity can't escape and the chicken just falls apart. you want the best chicken ever? get a smoker. fucken perfect chicken.

#2. take it easy on the slow cooker! anything you slow cook is going to be falling apart. I would do those with wings on the bbq

#1 just cut off a rib. or pick it up with thongs. you should be able to tell

happy cooking.

oh and the steak thing! yeah go for it. haha

TrueConfection · Answer

#1 I go by tenderness.  #2 I hope I never find out the answer to that one. #3 Did you cook the chicken on high or low? Crockpot or Instapot? #4 Not if you're alone.

Redstang88 · Answer

1) Well done steak? 🤢
2) Ummm, no. That’s not crock pot food
3) Well that’s what crock pots do… If you want it crispier, use an oven or bbq
4) Maybe not if you’re sitting around a campfire in the bush. But at the table yeah a little

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

I haven't created a steak or pork chops not yet at least, I am a beginner in the food making. I had only created few specific foods at the moment but I am hoping to eventually create more food.

Jouth · Answer

huh? chefs?

Well when i die I don't just want people to remember me in their hearts for my kindness. i don't want people just to remember that I listened to them and made then feel heard. i don't want then to just remember me for the ways in which I helped them. I want girls to also remember how big my dick was. Only the cute girls tho, the ones with the fat girl smell can forget.

Brass tax here. The truth is, people don't remember what you said, they don't remember what you did, people remember how you made them feel. And my dick feels the best.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

1. Not sure. Probably. 2. Never cook anything in a crock pot without water. 3. I don't understand; what's the issue? 4. Not if you're by yourself.

Mehzmeh · Answer

To the first question….. wtaf!!! Helll no... To the next two. Hell no. To the last one…. Maybe

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

I am a chef! And dear lord girl 🤣🤣🤣 what in the helllll. Just YouTube that shit god damn it 🤣 come on now.

Sarahr123 · Answer

I think I’ll convert to pure vegetarianism because I am starting to get grossed out by eating animal meat 😂

AviatorTom · Answer

I'm not a chef and only an average cook. Any advice I give you about cooking should be taken wit ha grain of salt... and probably ignored.

bulletbob555 · Answer

I can cook but I don't cook in slow cooker. Don't feel I'm qualified to answer these. Did have a slow cooker someone lent me you could fill it up with oil about two thirds of the way up and fry the wings. Raw or frozen 10 minutes

Peenshake · Answer

That all sounds pretty good to me. Get yo ass back in the kitchen haha

loves2learn · Answer

No, no, chicken breast is better, no. 🤣

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