• cybervseas@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    I had never thought about doing this until now, and now it’s all that I can think about.

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      29 days ago

      I have three questions.

      Does this actually work to coock it?

      Is it at all edible?

      Is there any environmental impact or downside?

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        29 days ago

        Does this actually work to coock it?

        Doesn’t seem safe to try to get your cock in it while it’s in the hot spring. Maybe you could find a way to make it could actually work…but why? Are you a masochist or something?

        Is it at all edible?

        Sous vide method would probably have the most chance Of being edible since the turkey would be vacuum sealed

        Is there any environmental impact or downside?

        Yes. That’s why the park service is saying not to do this. You’d be introducing new chemicals into a delicate ecosystem and also potentially physically damaging it.

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          I’m a homebrewer, so I have a boiler large enough to sous vide a turkey (or a lamb), but I do wonder where one would find a large enough bag, I think you’d have to weld several bags together

      • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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        29 days ago

        It would cook it, the springs are hot and acidic enough. You’d just have to sit for a long while. Edibility depends on your allergies and tolerance for poisons.

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        29 days ago

        Would depend on the specific hot spring. Most would cook and dissolve it. Additionally it would be very Sulphur smelling and tasting which would be range from icky to deadly depending on how much of the undissolved you ate.

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        28 days ago

        The places I know were they do cook stuff using volcanic heat (in Peru and the Azores islands which are part of Portugal) they do it by digging a hole in an area were the ground is hot from volcanic heat and putting a pan cooking in it (they cover it all to keep the heat).

        So it’s more a local technique for cooking for free that then evolved into a couple of traditional dishes.

        Never heard of trying to roast stuff on the output of a geyser.

        • Venator@lemmy.nz
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          28 days ago

          It’s a thing in New Zealand, where they actually cook in the geothermal springs, done traditionally by Maori in the area that has geothermal activity(they also dig a hole sometimes, not sure if that depends on the tribe or just what they’re cooking). Apparently there’s a restaurant that does it too: https://whakarewarewa.com/experiences-traditional-food/

          I haven’t tried it so can’t speak to the flavor, but Id imagine it would be somewhat sulphour flavoured, which doesn’t seem appealing, maybe it’s an acquired taste?

  • zephorah@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    TIL

    People, man. Park rangers are the nation’s cat herders. The amount of stupidity they intercept, well, I’m glad I don’t have to do it, and I’m more than happy to see my tax dollars fund their health care.

    Insofar as that still happens going forward. We may not have national parks in 4 yrs.

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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    29 days ago

    Well I’m also one of the people who’d never thought of such a thing until they brought it up. Shame our local springs aren’t nearly hot enough for that kind of nonsense.