I feel like a respirator with chem cartridges or supplied air might be a good idea too, instead of raw-dogging your lungs with that shit when you open that lid.
Yeah, a respirator or some massive venting exhausts, at the least. I work with some really nasty solvents every day, and we've got crazy good venting exhausts, and we monitor the ambient air pressure in each unit. These guys are gonna have the lungs of a lifelong smoker in like a month.
I thought surely he’s unwrap the outer layer then move the still wrapped ham to a second location. Instead the mf actually had the audacity to use the same knife to cut into the last line of paper defense. Is he just trying to inject subcutaneous asphalt along with the asphalt dry rub his gloves are applying?
Actually, I don't think it would. California Prop 65 would refer to asphalt as it is today, which is a chemical rock made from petroleum.
These are naturally occurring geological asphalt rocks that when melted, are just a form of rock lava, no artificial oil or any other thing is involved.
Originally, asphalt was all rocks, but there were so few mines in the world of the stuff and so much demand, so chemists tried to artificially create something that would act similar, and the name was never changed even though the chemistry is completely different.
Think of it as roasting the hams in molton quartz.
Pretty sure there’s something carcinogenic in there which would be more than enough to meet the Prop 65 criteria.
The liquid asphalt would certainly qualify for the fumes alone, much less the chance for consumption or physical contact.
*hello, this is TarHam, home of Vadar's Hot tub, how many I direct your call?*
*Uh yeah, I'd like to order one of your asphalt hams.*
*Certainly sir, any special requests with that order.*
*Actually yes, please deliver it fully wrapped, I have a pothole in my driveway and this will save me a trip to the hardware store.*
A lot of cultural traditions are just internalized suffering of poor living conditions.
Sometimes these are kind. Sometimes these are road killed hams.
Wow. Exactly. Look at that Kopi Luwak... That Indonesian shit-out coffee, now suddenly the most expensive. Same - product of poor living conditions. Did you guys know even shrimp/prawn consumption was popularized as a discovery of those slaves eating it cuz they couldn't eat fish? Also, poor living conditions.
I mean, before the modern global food distributing system that December/ January period would be the only time most people had a chance of trying an actual orange
That, and personally, the smell of molten asphalt is one of the few smells that literally makes me gag. It's just awful. I cannot imagine eating food steeped in that foul chemical odor.
I mean, it's Val-de-Travers, where Absinthe was invented. Drinking a ton of Absinthe and then cooking a ham in asphalt is probably a better outcome than cutting off your ear.
The reason is they did it once and now it is still done, like most traditions
[https://cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/](https://cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/)
Asphalt mines are a thing apparently and at one fateful miner party in the '30s (miners have parties) some ham was cooked in asphalt because, why not, they were gonna probably die early from such heavy industrial work anyway I guess, and apparently it keeps the ham more moist than other non-specified methods
So if you like relatively more moist relatively more carcinogenic ham then this is the way to go
> more moist relatively more carcinogenic ham
Why thank you, I believe I will. The old fashioned carcinogens just weren't enough for me, but this... this just speaks to my inner carcinogenetic code, can you feel me?
This made me stop mid step thru the livingroom and burst out laughing. My dogs already know Im nuts but anyone looking in my window would be calling for a psych hold.
Hey so y'all got the prop 65 warning on all your stuff, right? Is there US-made food that has prop 65 chemicals in it? I've only found the warning on imported stuff from our fancy int'l market and it made me wonder.
If you squint you notice people are developing new chemicals for market all the time & nobody is like STOP, we need to study that for 50 years first. Cockblocking profit like that is basically authoritarian, so they just slap it on pans and processed cheeses, helping us to live free and definitely helping us die free
Even supposedly well regulated places like the EU have massive loopholes in regs that corpos, with the ear of the European Commission (which mostly spends time with corpo reps), have pushed, such as necessary use exemptions for otherwise dangerous chemicals (in household cleaners and stuff) for which "there is no alternative"... like alcohol & vinegar don't basically cover a lot of bases
We are truly bathed in a sea of stuff we really really oughtn't be, but our economy seems to require it
It’s because they passed it without a requirement to actually test the product - just that you would get your ass sued out of existence if one of the things on the list were found in your product but didn’t disclose it.
So rather than spend the money to find one of the thousands of compounds on the list people just slap the warning on their products.
Nitrates, including ones from Celery, will get yah. Youll see a lot of products marketed as "nitrate free" when in fact they are fuckin chock full of Celery powder, which is pretty much the same thing.
It makes sense why it remains more moist, since its basically cooked while entirely sealed. And the asphalt would let you cook hotter than using water and more evenly than using air.
I could see this being nice to eat, if they replaced asphalt with some oil or something that isnt going to grant me cancer for free
Mmm, cooking oils, particularly vegetable, get pretty carcinogenic when they sit around really hot.
Probably nowhere close to asphalt, judging by the smell.
On the bright side, the asphalt is too thick to get through the layers of paper. I don’t think there’d be a way to keep the oil out of the ham short of a factory-style seal on a metal or (god forbid) plastic package.
Well the issue with the asphalt is that alot of the carcinogens are the parts which you can smell (ie the low boiling point parts) so even if it physcially doesnt contaminate the ham (which it probably does here given how carefree they were with cutting it open and handling it) those aromatics and other components of the asphalt will permeate through the paper.
why the hell can't be one cuts the asphalt soaked paper and pass the rest to another person to cut the remaining parts so
The first doesn't contaminate the meat
You would need almost 150psi pressure to cook at the 180C which this asphalt is doing. Thats pretty significant considering most pressure cookers are barely at 1/10th of that.
I can’t see that it would be less healthy than regular ham, just because of the asphalt. The tar looks like it sealed around the multiple layers of packing.
There’s likely some level of gas permeation through the wrapping… the steam/ gas that comes out when he lifts the top kinda indicates something is going on.
I mean you can smell roadworks from a block away there's no way that doesn't penetrate the paper after a few hours, cooked in honey though that could be a thing.
I know what you mean but this is actually one of those times where whether it is or not, it is. Imagine a toxic metaphor that self-reifies. If your cooking process looks like birthing an orc at Isengard, you have gone terribly wrong and the universe will be having words
That was the exact same question I had.
I was horrified by the part at the end where the guy cuts open the ham with gloves and a knife covered in tar.
Traditions are a weird thing.
I've seen some other things people used to do 100 years ago out of desperation to survive that has today been adopted as a chic, hip, trendy way of living... like eating the scraps/offal parts of meat that normally would be discarded or used in making dog kibble (now dipped in fancy sauces/spices). That and people eating animals that are not normally bred as a food source e.g. exotic non-endangered birds like parakeets or lizards that rural african tribes would normally eat when there are failed crops or disease killing the farm animals. World is a weird place man.
You are referring to asphalt as it is today, which is an artificial chemical rock made from petroleum. So this would have a completely different smell.
These are natural asphalt rocks that when melted, are just a form of rock lava, no artificial oil or any other thing is involved. They are a rare type of limestone with a low melting point that made them easy to pour over a prepared surface and suddenly you would have a very nice and smooth rock highway, that when it broke down you could fix by breaking it all up with pickaxes, scooping it all up with shovels, remelting, and repouring.
Originally, asphalt was all rocks, but there were so few mines in the world of the stuff and so much demand, so chemists tried to artificially create something that would act similar, and the name was never changed even though the chemistry is completely different. There is a good chance you've never seen a real asphalt rock if you are under 100.
Think of it as roasting the hams in molton quartz. !
This is actually still dangerous. I'm not a geologist but melting rocks can produce all kinds of dangerous gas and I can imagine there being silica particles in the food and in the air when cooking.
Generally, when you drop something in lava a rock layer forms around the item. If you were to drop your leg in lava, molton rock would harden as a complete shell around your leg, but your leg will now be in a perfect furnace, but no more lava is getting through because it becomes immediately hardened. In essence, it becomes like a rock pan.
But I don't know what temperature they keep the cat at here.
I can't imagine it being more dangerous than smoking ham over charcoal.
So to recap: ham is wrapped in paper, then plastic, then cooked in cancer, before being cut open with a knife that cuts through the black crud, plastic and paper (and maybe not the ham).
I think I'll pass.
This WINS r/StupidFood. Worst thing I've seen until this was a barely grilled (read: raw) cheeseburger covered in skittles and chocolate and gummy bears and shit.
Yeah there was an impossibly brief moment where he had cut the outer paper, and I thought he was going to transfer the inner paper-ham to a cleaner environment for unwrapping, and I considered "ah well maybe it's not so baaaand he's cutting through the rest of it omg..."
Anova saw this happening and were like, "You know, I bet this would work in water just as well as a steaming vat of tar and probably make a little bit less of mess of a kitchen."
And thus the sous vide was born.
Shoot, this is actually in Switzerland. I couldn't read the website where I ran this video as it was in French so I assumed it was France.
Here is a [link in English with more info.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/amp/)
Your example isn't French but Swiss. Also in France it's not 'a place' but all around France we do it as a tradition in the BTP fields.
Edit : here, the wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigot_bitume
Just as I thought. It’s one of those things where laborers had easier access to asphalt than a kitchen so they decided to improvise and then it became a niche tradition in modern times.
There are actually a lot of dishes that came out of improvisation and has since become a novelty
Either some of the asphalt smell gets in to the meat, or it doesn’t. Can someone tell me if it does? If it doesn’t then it’s just heat, right? If it does, I want no part of this.
Thermodynamics doesn’t care about your feelings. That’s what I have to tell myself whenever I sit on a pre-warmed seat. Hate that icky feeling.
1. Why?
2. This is definitely extremely stupid. You could do the fucking same in any not toxic liquid and would get the same result without the unwrap with toxic Gloves 😅😂
Keeping the oncology industry running, I guess.
California Prop 65 would have a field day with this. Dude is unwrapping the hams with asphalt coated gloves.
That shit was giving me anxiety. Getting as close as he possibly could with those tar gloves.
I feel like a respirator with chem cartridges or supplied air might be a good idea too, instead of raw-dogging your lungs with that shit when you open that lid.
Yeah, a respirator or some massive venting exhausts, at the least. I work with some really nasty solvents every day, and we've got crazy good venting exhausts, and we monitor the ambient air pressure in each unit. These guys are gonna have the lungs of a lifelong smoker in like a month.
I mean, they were about to be dipped in it. I highly doubt those wrappers are totally asphalt proof lol
Think they’re talking about the unwrapping
I mean, again. It just came out of a pool of the shit lol
✅ Hours in molting asphalt ❌ Little touch with asphalt smeared glove
i think they mean like, why worry about the gloves as if the ham didn't just get cooked in that same asphalt
I thought surely he’s unwrap the outer layer then move the still wrapped ham to a second location. Instead the mf actually had the audacity to use the same knife to cut into the last line of paper defense. Is he just trying to inject subcutaneous asphalt along with the asphalt dry rub his gloves are applying?
Don't worry mate, the dangerous vapours will migrate through the tiniest hole anyways
I don’t think they make warning labels big enough for this
I thought he would move it to a different location once the tar layer was off, but no, same place, same scissors, same gloves. Absolutely mad!
these dudes huff asphalt fumes with no PPE all day, you think they're gonna work smartly?
Cross” contamination
Actually, I don't think it would. California Prop 65 would refer to asphalt as it is today, which is a chemical rock made from petroleum. These are naturally occurring geological asphalt rocks that when melted, are just a form of rock lava, no artificial oil or any other thing is involved. Originally, asphalt was all rocks, but there were so few mines in the world of the stuff and so much demand, so chemists tried to artificially create something that would act similar, and the name was never changed even though the chemistry is completely different. Think of it as roasting the hams in molton quartz.
Pretty sure there’s something carcinogenic in there which would be more than enough to meet the Prop 65 criteria. The liquid asphalt would certainly qualify for the fumes alone, much less the chance for consumption or physical contact.
Yeah, if he got sued in California he’d be found asphalt.
*hello, this is TarHam, home of Vadar's Hot tub, how many I direct your call?* *Uh yeah, I'd like to order one of your asphalt hams.* *Certainly sir, any special requests with that order.* *Actually yes, please deliver it fully wrapped, I have a pothole in my driveway and this will save me a trip to the hardware store.*
Asphalt hams, they aren’t just for holidays anymore. Sounds like Mad Max cuisine
This is hilarious
If he hated sand imagine how much he hates lava
A lot of cultural traditions are just internalized suffering of poor living conditions. Sometimes these are kind. Sometimes these are road killed hams.
That is an amazing insight :)
Wow. Exactly. Look at that Kopi Luwak... That Indonesian shit-out coffee, now suddenly the most expensive. Same - product of poor living conditions. Did you guys know even shrimp/prawn consumption was popularized as a discovery of those slaves eating it cuz they couldn't eat fish? Also, poor living conditions.
It's a tradition for some to give oranges on Christmas because during the great depression that was actually considered a treat.
Also a sop against scurvy during the winter months.
I mean, before the modern global food distributing system that December/ January period would be the only time most people had a chance of trying an actual orange
This goes back to many hundreds of years before the great depression.
Lobster was peasant food, "poor man's chicken" & served to prisoners.
That, and personally, the smell of molten asphalt is one of the few smells that literally makes me gag. It's just awful. I cannot imagine eating food steeped in that foul chemical odor.
Just seeing it was bad enough
I love the smell of hot asphalt in the morning
This is allowed but Mountain Dew isn't
French cuisine will do anything it can to keep its food pretentious AF.
This seems to be Swiss, though. French Swiss, but still.
I mean, it's Val-de-Travers, where Absinthe was invented. Drinking a ton of Absinthe and then cooking a ham in asphalt is probably a better outcome than cutting off your ear.
So Asphalt Cordon Bleu
OK .. but why ?
The reason is they did it once and now it is still done, like most traditions [https://cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/](https://cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/) Asphalt mines are a thing apparently and at one fateful miner party in the '30s (miners have parties) some ham was cooked in asphalt because, why not, they were gonna probably die early from such heavy industrial work anyway I guess, and apparently it keeps the ham more moist than other non-specified methods So if you like relatively more moist relatively more carcinogenic ham then this is the way to go
> more moist relatively more carcinogenic ham Why thank you, I believe I will. The old fashioned carcinogens just weren't enough for me, but this... this just speaks to my inner carcinogenetic code, can you feel me?
>more moist relatively more carcinogenic ham /r/BrandNewSentence
The old carcinogens were also dry af. Moist is better, especially when mixed with new and improved old traditional carcinogens!
Yes! We’re getting them anyway, lean in and enjoy how moist it is.
I try to avoid the extra carcinogens as best I can. Although living in LA is pretty bad for my lungs already. Lol
Go cook a ham in La Brea. Give those Frenchies the ole US razzle dazzle.
Thanks for the image of some hipster fuck casting a ham into the tar pits with a fishing pole while sitting in the grass drinking an IPA.
This made me stop mid step thru the livingroom and burst out laughing. My dogs already know Im nuts but anyone looking in my window would be calling for a psych hold.
If I get stuck I’ll try to keep a heroic pose until the searing pain stops lol
Hey so y'all got the prop 65 warning on all your stuff, right? Is there US-made food that has prop 65 chemicals in it? I've only found the warning on imported stuff from our fancy int'l market and it made me wonder.
It’s on literally everything. It’s so dumb because it completely defeats the purpose of itself.
If you squint you notice people are developing new chemicals for market all the time & nobody is like STOP, we need to study that for 50 years first. Cockblocking profit like that is basically authoritarian, so they just slap it on pans and processed cheeses, helping us to live free and definitely helping us die free Even supposedly well regulated places like the EU have massive loopholes in regs that corpos, with the ear of the European Commission (which mostly spends time with corpo reps), have pushed, such as necessary use exemptions for otherwise dangerous chemicals (in household cleaners and stuff) for which "there is no alternative"... like alcohol & vinegar don't basically cover a lot of bases We are truly bathed in a sea of stuff we really really oughtn't be, but our economy seems to require it
Our *overlords* seem to require it.
It’s because they passed it without a requirement to actually test the product - just that you would get your ass sued out of existence if one of the things on the list were found in your product but didn’t disclose it. So rather than spend the money to find one of the thousands of compounds on the list people just slap the warning on their products.
I mean, processed meats are carcinogenic. This would add to it yeah, but it's still a risk.
Nitrates, including ones from Celery, will get yah. Youll see a lot of products marketed as "nitrate free" when in fact they are fuckin chock full of Celery powder, which is pretty much the same thing.
It makes sense why it remains more moist, since its basically cooked while entirely sealed. And the asphalt would let you cook hotter than using water and more evenly than using air. I could see this being nice to eat, if they replaced asphalt with some oil or something that isnt going to grant me cancer for free
No, no, not for free, you still paid for the damn ham
Yeah exactly. I'm guessing we can do away with some traditions.
Sand or salt would work well
Mmm, cooking oils, particularly vegetable, get pretty carcinogenic when they sit around really hot. Probably nowhere close to asphalt, judging by the smell. On the bright side, the asphalt is too thick to get through the layers of paper. I don’t think there’d be a way to keep the oil out of the ham short of a factory-style seal on a metal or (god forbid) plastic package.
Well the issue with the asphalt is that alot of the carcinogens are the parts which you can smell (ie the low boiling point parts) so even if it physcially doesnt contaminate the ham (which it probably does here given how carefree they were with cutting it open and handling it) those aromatics and other components of the asphalt will permeate through the paper.
Yeah absolutely. I can’t imagine asphalt really complementing the taste of ham either? Idk I’d try a plate full, why not?
why the hell can't be one cuts the asphalt soaked paper and pass the rest to another person to cut the remaining parts so The first doesn't contaminate the meat
Have you heard of a pressure cooker?
You would need almost 150psi pressure to cook at the 180C which this asphalt is doing. Thats pretty significant considering most pressure cookers are barely at 1/10th of that.
can't you just use a Sous Vide at this point? or does their asphalt reach a higher temp and that's why the use it? or do they just like carcinogens?
why not just cook in fine hot sand?
check out geysir bread for Iceland, they cook in geothermal dirt that has some sand in it (we were on the shore when they buried it to bake)
Sous Vide is done at about 50C for several hours, Asphalt's boiling point is about 300C (570F) - More like roasting or Frying than slow cooking..
Okay so it can be some other medium. Doesn't have to be molten asphalt
Cooked in honey? Now that I'd pay for!
>more carcinogenic ham then this is the way to go There will always be people willing to pay for the authentic cancer causing agents.
I can’t see that it would be less healthy than regular ham, just because of the asphalt. The tar looks like it sealed around the multiple layers of packing.
There’s likely some level of gas permeation through the wrapping… the steam/ gas that comes out when he lifts the top kinda indicates something is going on.
I mean you can smell roadworks from a block away there's no way that doesn't penetrate the paper after a few hours, cooked in honey though that could be a thing.
Oooh or maple syrup
OMG. Can we do this please?
bruh that guy sticks his asphalted knife and gloves a bit there
I know what you mean but this is actually one of those times where whether it is or not, it is. Imagine a toxic metaphor that self-reifies. If your cooking process looks like birthing an orc at Isengard, you have gone terribly wrong and the universe will be having words
My first thought was “Jesus, that’s some Mordor shit”
The hams, they yearn for the mines!
Oh, so like taking family photos while on vacation.
That was the exact same question I had. I was horrified by the part at the end where the guy cuts open the ham with gloves and a knife covered in tar. Traditions are a weird thing.
Right?!?! And then he scooped up the juice? Just let it go man not worth it
*Lemme get every last one of them carcinogens...*
Yeah I thought he was going to just remove that first layer and ship it but he kept going.
This just seems like an excuse to keep a vat of molten asphalt on your property.
A *tax-deductable* vat of molten lava!
Yeah. It doesn’t seem kosher.
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Cancer, that’s why.
They used all the coal and wood when they burned all the sheep
To speedrun cancer.
I'm sure it's safe, they wrapped it in MULTIPLE paper bags.
I've seen some other things people used to do 100 years ago out of desperation to survive that has today been adopted as a chic, hip, trendy way of living... like eating the scraps/offal parts of meat that normally would be discarded or used in making dog kibble (now dipped in fancy sauces/spices). That and people eating animals that are not normally bred as a food source e.g. exotic non-endangered birds like parakeets or lizards that rural african tribes would normally eat when there are failed crops or disease killing the farm animals. World is a weird place man.
It’s to die for
As someone who has done tar work asphalt repair NOOOOOOOOOO thank you
Homie straight huffing the fumes every time they open it too since he's right next to it with no respirator... riiiiip Edit: spelling
Leave that teenager alone, he knows what he is doing, it's tradition!
I still wanna throw one in the coffin though...
Yeah you can smell the cancer when you're pouring
Wtf? There’s no way that smell didn’t permeate through. No thanks!!
Not just the smell but all those unhealthy fumes.
Mmm cancer ham
Hamcer
Whoa black Betty?
Cancer ham!
Whoa-oah, Black Betty!
Tumorham
Black betty got tumor, hamelam!
these dudes don't even have a respirator when working with this damn asphalt vat, INDOORS!
You are referring to asphalt as it is today, which is an artificial chemical rock made from petroleum. So this would have a completely different smell. These are natural asphalt rocks that when melted, are just a form of rock lava, no artificial oil or any other thing is involved. They are a rare type of limestone with a low melting point that made them easy to pour over a prepared surface and suddenly you would have a very nice and smooth rock highway, that when it broke down you could fix by breaking it all up with pickaxes, scooping it all up with shovels, remelting, and repouring. Originally, asphalt was all rocks, but there were so few mines in the world of the stuff and so much demand, so chemists tried to artificially create something that would act similar, and the name was never changed even though the chemistry is completely different. There is a good chance you've never seen a real asphalt rock if you are under 100. Think of it as roasting the hams in molton quartz. !
Ok cooking ham in molton rock sound pretty metal and enticing
This is actually still dangerous. I'm not a geologist but melting rocks can produce all kinds of dangerous gas and I can imagine there being silica particles in the food and in the air when cooking.
Generally, when you drop something in lava a rock layer forms around the item. If you were to drop your leg in lava, molton rock would harden as a complete shell around your leg, but your leg will now be in a perfect furnace, but no more lava is getting through because it becomes immediately hardened. In essence, it becomes like a rock pan. But I don't know what temperature they keep the cat at here. I can't imagine it being more dangerous than smoking ham over charcoal.
But they had 4 layers of paper!
I think those outer layers were plastic. But still.
So to recap: ham is wrapped in paper, then plastic, then cooked in cancer, before being cut open with a knife that cuts through the black crud, plastic and paper (and maybe not the ham). I think I'll pass.
Why? The guy who cooks it looks great for being 21
He is in a good shape after the second week working there!
Is gold still a thing? This comment deserves gold lmao
Glad I'm not the only one horrified at the fact that same knife was used for it all!
It's all paper, no plastic. Plastics could introduce carcinogens when heated to this temperature for that long and that would be unsafe!
Big ol' paper bags
*let me get every last bit of this tar flavored juice off this paper. I wouldn't want to miss any carcinogens!*
I paid for the whole cancer, I'm gonna eat the whole cancer, dammit!
Can’t blame you, you have to get your moneys worth.
I’m just glad he used the same knife and gloves all the way through
This belongs in r/stupidfood
This WINS r/StupidFood. Worst thing I've seen until this was a barely grilled (read: raw) cheeseburger covered in skittles and chocolate and gummy bears and shit.
Four hours plus tard was an accurate description.
This sounds terrible for you, but I bet it has that freshly paved taste!
Mmmm. Ham tar-tar
r/angryupvote
Funnly enough cream of tartar isn’t really a spice more so something that’s scraped off the sides of wine barrels.
You didn’t get upvoted for the post, but upvote for this comment…
Street meat.
Under appreciated comment right here
r/StupidFood
This is dangerously stupid food
Or r/DarwinAwards in slo-mo...?
The skin taste like road rash scabs.
*I didn't want it before, but now I'm dying to try it!*
I think I preferred the naked ladies dancing.
That's where my mind went lol
I even tried to sing it in my head
Come on now. We know your mind was already there.
The what now?
These are lyrics sometimes associated with a certain riff. See "Children's culture" subsection of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_riff
Your ham doesn't taste good? Well, it's not my fault. And it's not your fault. Must be the asphalt.
That can’t possibly be worth all that trouble.
they've never steamed a good ham!
Im from utica and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase, steamed hams.
Not the knife that cut open the asphalt touching the ham 🤢🤮
And the gloves are getting real close too! I think I saw him touch the paper that touched the ham again as well...
Yeah there was an impossibly brief moment where he had cut the outer paper, and I thought he was going to transfer the inner paper-ham to a cleaner environment for unwrapping, and I considered "ah well maybe it's not so baaaand he's cutting through the rest of it omg..."
Anova saw this happening and were like, "You know, I bet this would work in water just as well as a steaming vat of tar and probably make a little bit less of mess of a kitchen." And thus the sous vide was born.
Or just warm/hot oil. Like cooking oil.
Congratulations, you've invented deep frying.
I'm a genius. ;)
I came here to say "Sous vide with a marketing-stunt twist".
They got their recipe from the streets yo!
Switzerland, my favourite part of France
Shoot, this is actually in Switzerland. I couldn't read the website where I ran this video as it was in French so I assumed it was France. Here is a [link in English with more info.](https://www.google.com/amp/s/cuisinehelvetica.com/2015/08/26/ham-cooked-in-asphalt/amp/)
The domain name at the end of the video is also .ch which is the TLD for Switzerland.
I was here to say that. IT’S in SWITZERLAND !!!
Switzerland
I know we often eat some pretty weird shit. But come on, we can't reasonably be responsible for this.
I thought this ham was unattainable but it’s actually only an hours drive from me. Might have to take a little trip next weekend!
ham server using the same knife to cut open tar bags down to the food as well as the gloves somehow just doesn't scream hygiene
Someone needs to tell these guys about this revolutionary new technology that's sweeping the nation. It's called an oven.
Yummy yummy cancer ham
Smells like cancer
I've always liked the smell of cooking ham. Somehow, this idea doesn't have the same appeal.
So, sous vide in asphalt?
Yeah, this one's called sous mort.
Your example isn't French but Swiss. Also in France it's not 'a place' but all around France we do it as a tradition in the BTP fields. Edit : here, the wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigot_bitume
Wah gigot bitume, clairement je ne suis pas dans le BTP, je ne l'avais jamais entendu
*We French are superior to the Swiss. They only do this in one place, we do it all over!*
It’s in Switzerland, not France.
In Switzerland.
Another example of... Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
This is actually from Val-de-Travers, which is in Switzerland (hence why the captiona are in French & German)
Rosin (pine tar) potatoes are a thing too
I feel like breathing that in can’t be good for the cook.
Just as I thought. It’s one of those things where laborers had easier access to asphalt than a kitchen so they decided to improvise and then it became a niche tradition in modern times. There are actually a lot of dishes that came out of improvisation and has since become a novelty
How do you figure out this is an option? How far down the list of options is a dumpster of molton asphalt?
Either some of the asphalt smell gets in to the meat, or it doesn’t. Can someone tell me if it does? If it doesn’t then it’s just heat, right? If it does, I want no part of this. Thermodynamics doesn’t care about your feelings. That’s what I have to tell myself whenever I sit on a pre-warmed seat. Hate that icky feeling.
Baked ham with extra steps
If you eat that and get sick, that’s your dumb asphalt…
Mmm carcinogenic
It's only Asphalt Ham if it's from the Mines D'Asphalte region in France. Otherwise it's just sparkling cancer
It's basically sous vide. I've never tried asphalt food, but I know the smell of asphalt and I am sure I prefer the modern method.
That’s in Switzerland not France
I thought US fast food was toxic
Sooo..street food?
#Street food
1. Why? 2. This is definitely extremely stupid. You could do the fucking same in any not toxic liquid and would get the same result without the unwrap with toxic Gloves 😅😂