topic Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide in Kitchen

Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Mistreatedbycs — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:46:38 GMT

Saw two different models at COSTCO.....are they worth it?

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

deepwaterdotter — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:19:50 GMT

My SIL cooks with a "Breville Joule" model of this appliance. I don't know where she purchased it, but it does a nice job of cooking.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Sooner — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:43:43 GMT

We have had one for a long time, almost never use it now that we don't work. It was mostly for fish. We didn't like steaks that way.

Now we slap some aluminum foil on a small baking sheet, throw the salmon on and cook it in the oven. We use our oven a lot.

If you are going to be out of the house for a number of hours and have a food sealer, it's great.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Suzeecat — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:56:14 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the same concept, but it sounds like it. I belonged to a meal delivery service where everything arrived in vacuum sealed bags that you heated up in boiling water. The food always took at least twice as long as the instructions gave to heat the food up, and most of the time I ended up opening the bags and simply reheating the food in the microwave. The sous vide concept was lost on me.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Patriot3 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:00:07 GMT

Just another fad to waste money on? I don't know.........didn't look too interesting to me.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

proudlyfromNJ — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:04:33 GMT

A lot of chefs use these. The food is cooked in them not reheated. Personally these are not for me, husband is lucky I cook at all.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

x Hedge — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:38:11 GMT

@Mistreatedbycs

Had to look that up.

Literally means "under vacuum" .

Method of cooking food slowly in a vacuum sealed pouch at a low temperature so as to retain most of the juice and aroma.

Offers greater control over what you're cooking.

Recommended for:

Meats that dry out, overcook, or get tough/rubbery easily, or start as tougher cuts of meat.

Chicken or duck breast.

Liver

Eggs

Fish Fillet

Vegetables too. See Google for more.

(Thanks for asking. I learned something new.)

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Mistreatedbycs — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:40:46 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ

"husband is lucky I cook at all"

now that's funny!

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

busymom22 — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:38:54 GMT

I had one but was not impressed. Cooking meat in water just doesn't result in the same flavors as grilling even if you do a quick sear afterwards. It's a cooking method I won't try again.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

ninjawife — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:38:44 GMT

My husband loves that one he bought. He also has a vacuum sealer so when we buy meats in bulk he seals them into dinner sized portions. He uses it to defrost and/or cook. Like some else said I don't particularly care for the way steak is cooked in it but DH will use it to defrost steak then grill it.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Skyegirl21 — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:08:08 GMT

Cooking my food in plastic under high heat. No way. Plastic chemical residue in the food. I'm a scientist and I would never do this....

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

okaywitheasypay — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:51:57 GMT

The Ninja Foodi I purchased at HSN ( QVC sells it also) Has a setting for this. I have not tried this setting and not prone to . I do use about every other setting and it is good to know it is there if I choose. By the way I love this purchase --much easier than any other pressure cooker I have owned .

I bought the 6.5 qt. for just the 2 of us.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

faeriemoon — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:12:00 GMT

@Skyegirl21 wrote:
Cooking my food in plastic under high heat. No way. Plastic chemical residue in the food. I'm a scientist and I would never do this....

Completely and totally agree.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

proudlyfromNJ — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:21:53 GMT

Sous Vide is cooked under a low temperature.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

x Hedge — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 23:38:47 GMT

@Skyegirl21 wrote: @faeriemoon
Cooking my food in plastic under high heat. No way. Plastic chemical residue in the food. I'm a scientist and I would never do this....

No, just the opposite.

It's a low temperature for a longer time.

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@Mistreatedbycs

Thank again for this. I've been reading about the process, the results, and looking through Sous Vide cookbooks. I'm intrigued!!

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Skyegirl21 — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:44:28 GMT

Any temp high enough to cook food, is enough to chemically breakdown plastic...

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

brandiwine — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:07:14 GMT

I think it's safer to use an Instant pot or other brand of pressure cooker. The sous vide doesn't cook at a high enough temp to kill bacteria in my opinion.

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Mothertrucker — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:35:53 GMT

@brandiwine wrote:
I think it's safer to use an Instant pot or other brand of pressure cooker. The sous vide doesn't cook at a high enough temp to kill bacteria in my opinion.

I think you are misinformed aboutthe principles of cooking sousvide- pasteurization DOS occur at relatively low temperature, at a longer period of time as opposed to cooking with convection (normal heat)

The results can be incredible- shrimp, chicken, salmon, eggs. pork belly, filet -even an eye of round that slice up more tender than a chateaubriand- Brisket, Tri Tip- i could go on and on

I am hooked- if you want more info- o(or just to be entertained) go to You Tube and watch some of the videos from Guga on "Sous Vide Everything" ...

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Mothertrucker — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:37:28 GMT

@Suzeecat wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the same concept, but it sounds like it. I belonged to a meal delivery service where everything arrived in vacuum sealed bags that you heated up in boiling water. The food always took at least twice as long as the instructions gave to heat the food up, and most of the time I ended up opening the bags and simply reheating the food in the microwave. The sous vide concept was lost on me.

no,that is not what Sous Vide is- not even close- you would never use boiling water for sous vide- In fact, it is the opposite of that...

Re: Anyone Use a Sous Vide

Mothertrucker — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:37:52 GMT