Sous Vide cooking

[Steve Cas]

Has anyone had a lot of experience with this method if cooking?

I was 'gifted' a Sous Vide cooker for Christmas.  It's an interesting method. I have experimented with a couple of meals. It's time to research some recipes.

 
Happy New Year

[Lannis]

Probably an excellent way of cooking things ... but I prefer fire and smoke over vacuum and plastic!!

Lannis

[Guzzi Gal]

Probably an excellent way of cooking things ... but I prefer fire and smoke over vacuum and plastic!!

Lannis

My husband & brother-in-law both do.  I like what they make, the food comes out moist, and flavorful. 

[Lannis]

My husband & brother-in-law both do.  I like what they make, the food comes out moist, and flavorful.

I'm not even going to try to improve on a dry-rubbed pork loin rotisseried over a sloooow charcoal fire to a 155 degF internal temperature .... !   

Lannis

[Tom]

Youse got a "Seal a Meal"???  You could try Ziploc bags.  At the Deep Forest Camp Out, breakfast was a sous vide omelet.  You picked what you wanted added to the eggs in a Ziploc bag and thrown into a pot of boiling water.  Worked really well.   

[rodekyll]

They stopped doing that at Deep Forest.  Zip locks leach chemicals into the omlette while cooking.

[Lannis]

Steve Cas,

If you ever made cheese temperatures and being able to hold specific temperatures are paramount to having good yield and product. Holding between 100 and 102*F for over 2 hours was extremely labor intensive using a tea kettle of hot water to make micro adjustments to the water batch the cheese pot was setting in. Now with the Sous Vide machine set the water bath temp and it will maintain until 3 Mile Island runs out of Nuclear fuel or the city water supply is exhausted.

Now that there is a good idea.   I've always wanted to make my own proper cheese.   I can do the simple acid-activated "pot cheese" but not much beyond that ...

Lannis

[Tom]

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[Chuck in Indiana]

Then why not give it a go. Life's to short to say "I always wanted too..." 

That's a fact, pal..