Help. Currently in the middle of cooking a pork roast with some recipe I got online, the first one that comes up when you google it. Said to use foil to make clean up easy. So I thought, cool, and wrapped the thing in foil, put it in a glass baking dish, stuck it in the oven at 350 for an hour.
Take it back out, thing is cold and soft to the touch, and is cold and wet in the middle, dark red inside, cept the bottom, which looked like it had actually cooked. So, wrapping it in foil fucked it up right? I have no idea what I'm even looking at with this thing, so in my ignorant mind I was like hey cool wrap it in foil, keeps the heat in, cooks evenly. I'm guessing foil works both ways and keeps the heat out if you fully enclose it?
What now tho, I stuck it back in the oven and am just going to periodically check it till it looks done.
Put it in the oven, don't wrap it in foil, cook until done.
Hunter Fisher
was the pork at room temperature or close to it? was it frozen? is your oven termometer reliable?
Justin Baker
Thas what I thought, took it out and checked it again without the foil wrapped on it, it's actually cookin now.
It was thawed yeah, guess it was the foil after all.
Evan Martinez
also, you know the foil has different sides right? brighter side should be on the inside
Xavier Cox
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Samuel Morales
No, I don't, I legit do not know how to cook or anything about the properties of foil.
Thanks for telling me though, lesson learned.
Carson Sanders
the brither side being on the outside reflects the heat, so it doesn't penetrate into the meat.
if you turn it to the inside, it directs the heat directly to the meat
it's probably why it didn't cook
Daniel Jackson
I'll have to take a look at it, but yeah the foil is definitely the culprit. Taking it off and it cooked through and though.
Too through and through actually, it's not awful, but it's not what I'd serve at a fancy restaurant. Lil bit dry.
Caleb Lopez
>buying groceries from target
Easton Morales
I buy all kinds of shit from Target when I find a gift card my mommy gave me for Christmas.
Cameron Wright
You two are exaggerating. Turning the foil the wrong way wouldn't rest in cold meat after being in the oven an hour. Its a fucking oven, foil isn't going to reflex THAT much heat.
I would check your oven op, get a thermometer and see how hot its getting
William Gonzalez
Then why did it magically start cooking after I unwrapped it and got rid of the foil? It was no joke cool to the touch, only the bottom which was in contact with the dish was cooked.
Blake Adams
Did you pre-heat your oven or just put the meat in and turn it on?
Zachary Jenkins
Preheated. Didn't turn it off when I took it out either, believe me I was just as surprised when it was fucking cool to the touch, it was legit in there at 350 for an hour.
Got rid of the foil, put it back in, and it was sizzling in a few minutes.
Henry Garcia
At this point it sounds like you'd better ask /x/ what they think. No way would it be cool to the touch, no matter which side of the foil faced out.
Joseph Nguyen
WHY DO YOU LIE
Kayden Long
lmao
this fucking thread
this guy probably wrapped his pork in 100 meters of foil
even if you did that, it wouldn't stop it from cooking.
Foil only slows heat transfer until it gets hot (which is incredibly quickly given how thin it is and how high the heat conductivity of Al is)
Jaxson Brooks
I don't though, legit.
It was no joke cool to the touch man, and the inside was especially.
Then why wasn't it hot? And why did it get hot after I removed the foil?
Carson Lopez
Then you literally broke the laws of thermodynamics and you should be awarded a nobel prize.
It is impossible to put a material in an oven at a certain temperature and not have that material reach equilibrium with its surroundings
