We FINALLY figured out….Crème Brûlée | (Cold-Oven Crème Brûlée)

Get the recipe for Cold-Oven Crème Brûlee here: https://bit.ly/457kv6e

Crème brûlée is basically the best dessert of all time, and we never make it (much like cheesecake) because we hate the water bath. The whole thing seems totally doable until the step that requires creating a hot tub for several ramekins, then putting that in the oven, at risk of spilling water all over the place. One solution is to make two servings at a time in the Instant Pot. Some of us did that during the pandemic. But it’s time for a realistic alternative.

Chris Kimball spent a few days thinking it over and arrived at: a wet towel and a cold oven! Probably not the first person to come up with it, but this was exciting information to us. Placing the ramekins on a wet towel, with a little water—then baking in low heat—allows the crème brûlée to gently cook as the water evaporates more slowly.

Chris also skips the part about heating vanilla in cream over the stovetop. No point! The vanilla flavor will be infused into the custard as it bakes.

0:00 How to make Crème Brûlée (without a water bath!)
1:10 What is cold oven cooking?
1:49 How to brûlée the top of a crème brûlée

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i finally finally figured out how to make creme [Music] brulee this is a restaurant dish I don’t like doing at home i don’t want to start on the stove top i don’t want to do a water bath of bamarie this thing works it’s super simple there’s no stove top cooking five egg yolks 1/4 cup of sugar whisk that briefly so instead of using all heavy cream we’re using a cup of heavy cream and then we found that half and half lightens it up a little bit creme brulee can be overpowering then we’re going to add a pinch of salt this is vanilla powder you can just use two teaspoons of vanilla extract i don’t strain it cuz I’m lazy but here at Milk Straight we strain it in case there are any little pieces of egg which there are little pieces there they’re right I’m wrong we should strain it all right so instead of a water bath of bamarie you put them in ramicans in a roasting pan with a towel and a little bit of water this is going to uh gently protect the bottom of the ramicans from the heat of the oven it’s also going to provide a little steam heat which helps cook the custard back in the 1920s there were recipes called cold oven pound cakes you put the cake in the oven when it was off turn it on and the notion is you get a better crumb you get a better cake so I was thinking well instead of the bamarie if we put this into a a cold oven uh it’s more gentle heating we’ll turn it to 275 and that way you can get a nice gently cooked custard without worrying about a big water bath we’re going to cook this uh for about an hour use a digital temp thermometer to about 180 inside uh and then also it should jiggle a little bit in the center it shouldn’t be fully set but it should be mostly set okay now the fun part you can use up to a tablespoon of sugar for this size rakin if you want a really thick glassy surface or as little as a heaping teaspoon so um you could use a plumbers’s torch that’s what I keep around or one of these that fits on the top the first thing you want to do is melt the sugar do you want the sugar to sort of coat the top right before it really sets up to a glaze is that okay a little too much oh looks good hey let it First time he’s ever said something nice to me i also like to keep it kind of far away to start by the way I’ve done this many times and I’ve actually lit the sugar on fire by getting in too close i’ve also tested it with deer sugar you know darker sugar and I have actually had flames coming up so in my experience uh white sugar is really the best thing to use okay so now we have a nice top let’s listen for it that’s pretty good this is really good and the crust is nice and thin it’s not super thick as well which is nice and I invented cold oven creme brulee now I’m sure there’s 30 other people thought about this before I did but it really is the best way to do it no bamarie as well