Sounds like several chefs on the forum. Anyone on here tried doing any sous vide cooking? We've got our immersion cooker arriving tomorrow, curious if anyone on here has experience cooking sous vide.
That's a bit too technical but also not I suppose. The results are bound to be good though but I've never thought of going that far with cooking at home. #vacumpackcooking
Not got one but have eaten sous vide meat on main occasions. Works really well on chicken imo, as it can dry out in the oven, a rolled stuffed chicken breast sous vide and sliced is as good as chicken gets. Have you got a vacuum packing machine as well like? lol.
Not really sous vide but I gave tried to make baloney type meats by boiling wrapped up in cling film ( not just any cling film) A lot, if not all, supermarket ready meals use this method to keep the meat moist
We do have a vacuum machine. We sometimes cook extra of stuff and then freeze extra portions in vacuum bags in freezer. (Helps here in the US where every fridge freezer is enormous).I Sous Vide can be done with freezer ziplock bags as well apparently... Although since we have the vacuum bags we're going to use that.
Lookup correct temperature for meat being cooked... Set and walk away. In theory sounds simple. Will see if really is. Can cook for 1 hr or 4hr for a 1 inch piece of meat and the result will be the same. Supposedly extra delicious because being vacuum packed none of the juices can escape.
The meat isn't boiled at all. The meat never touches the water and the temperature is well below boiling. In fact the temperatures cooked at is well below most other techniques. The results are quite the opposite of boiling. Boiling makes meat chewy and lots of flavour is lost to the water. Sous Vide results in a more tender texture than roasting or frying and more flavour than either because juices can not escape. Not really a fad, top restaurants have been using sous vide for decades, it's only recent that the technology to be able to do it cheaply and conveniently at home has been available.
The immersion cooker arrived... Probably not going to have a chance to play with it until the weekend though.
