What is boiling? what is simmering? – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills

right what we’re doing here is
explaining the difference between
boiling water and simmering water this
one here this pot here is full of
boiling water see that the way that the
bubbles are rolling up to the top and
the surface of the water is completely
moving all the time that’s what we call
boiling this you can see the surface of
the water is quite flat and there’s some
bubbles tickling up around the edge so
it’s boiling but only just
well that’s what I would call simmering
so simmering what so that’s rolling boil
boiling that’s simmering now this is the
kind of water you want for example if
you cooking pasta that’s that’s how fast
you want it to be boiling so it’s good
for a pasta it’s good for noodles and
it’s good for things like green
vegetables green beans Monge – that kind
of thing broccoli those kind of lovely
vanch need to be cooked in that kind of
water simmering it’s what you would
poach an egg in or perhaps poach piece
of fish in or well if you’re making soup
you don’t ever want it to get like that
because if when you boil a soup you
spoil all the flavor in it so really for
soup you never want to get more than
simmering so there we go boiling and
simmering