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LTBS posted:Awesome. Awesome to the Max. What is the deal with the ping pong balls?
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I'd want to do a test with actual numbers, but it seems like a layer of aluminum foil would get the job done pretty darn well.
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If the Nomiku is any indication, it takes a buttwhile to go from kickstart to market with a kitchen device. The Sansaire schedule seemed very aggressive when I looked at it; it's a shame they're not being more open about it. Question: I made some short ribs this weekend. Browned 'em, salted and peppered 'em, and popped them into plastic baggies with a sprig of thyme for 72 hours at 57.2 C. I then put them in the fridge overnight (we were going out to eat with a guest that I didn't realize would be staying the whole weekend) and reheated them this evening. They smelled very strong. "Marrowy" is the world my girlfriend used. The meat had a great texture and tasted wonderful, but the strong smell was off-putting. I did leave the bone attached. Should I have removed that? Anything I should have done different?
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Did you chill it in an ice bath properly after cooking it before putting it in the fridge? Nope. I don't have an ice maker, so I stuck them in the freezer for ~30 minutes before moving them to the fridge. I'm reasonably comfortable that they were in the danger zone for a sufficiently small amount of time, as it wasn't a lot of food.
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SirRobin posted:Somewhere at home I have a recipe for making ice with a freezer. Should I post it for you? Only if it's quick. I'm terrible at planning ahead.
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Nov 13, 2013 05:36
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Sub Rosa posted:So then why sous vide it? You could throw it in the oven at 130 for a while, but air is a poor conductor of heat. You could throw it in the oven at a higher temperature, but then the plastic that the ham is sold in would melt. You could remove the plastic and then reheat it hotter, but then the juice from the ham would evaporate. If you're already a nerd with an immersion circulator hammer, reheating a ham looks like a nail.
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Chemmy posted:Ok, bags inflating can be a sign that bacteria is working in there which is a bad thing. I don't think bacteria could be working all that hard at 179 F.
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Jan 14, 2014 05:00
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Yeah, I've zip-locked for 72 hours before. Ain't no thing.
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Jan 15, 2014 01:41
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Cockmaster posted:
It's not. I cover the pot I'm SVing in with aluminum foil, and I've experienced negligible water loss over a 72 hour recipe.
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Jan 26, 2014 08:46
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BagSoakEat has a collection of fruit and veg SV recipes (by which I mean times and temperatures without a lot of elaboration). http://bagsoakeat.com/categories
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My girlfriend brought home a vacuum packed frozen brick of mahi mahi steaks from Trader Joe's. Is there anything wrong with letting that sit in the water bath all day at 55 degrees and then separating them, or should I separate, re-bag, and cook?
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Feb 9, 2014 18:49
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TATPants posted:The Nomiku is the worst of the bunch due to its limited water height issue (long cooks are out unless you have a covered container that is the correct height for it). The other two are a split decision based on if you want a turn knob or an LCD. I know I'm defending the Nom because I bought one, but this isn't the case. I've done 72 hour cooks in mine in whatever pot I happened to have available. I just covered it with tinfoil and the water loss was negligible. It's pretty much as good as the other two, just more expensive.
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Feb 18, 2014 07:37
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A piece of meat is going to have roughly the same thermal inertia as an equivalent amount of water. I can't imagine the inside of the meat is going to notice a difference whether you drop it into hot water or drop it into heating water.SlayVus posted:Maybe someone has done this or can do this, but I have a question. I don't think it's an issue of circulation, I think it's an issue of BTUs. A sufficiently large body of water is going to radiate heat at a certain rate (depending on what shape it's in, what the vessel is made out of, ambient air temperature, etc.; let's assume we're using aluminum stock pots). When your aluminum stock pot gets big enough and your water hot enough, it will radiate heat faster than your immersion circulator can pump heat into it. If you're desperate to SV two or three entire frozen turkeys, you can team several immersion circulators together.
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I swear to god, half the people in this loving thread must live like AIDS patients or The Boy in the Bubble. It's loving food. Heat it up for a while and eat it, you're not going to get botulism.
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a foolish pianist posted:Anyone got time/temp recs for scallops? I'm planning to do some up tonight. http://bagsoakeat.com/recipes/scallops-whole 60c for 10 minutes
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Ultimate Mango posted:Just took out my 72 hour ribs and chilled them in a sink full of ice water. There was a little gassing but nothing concerning but the outside of the meat had a greenish-grayish-brownish tinge. No funny smell, just intense beefy-ness. Two of the bags had liquid the other two had the liquid turn into jelly instead. Trimmed and blocked the meat and re sealed. Juices in a container ready to reduce into sauce. Kept the bones to blanch them or dry them or whatever for service in a ridiculous manner like MC showed. Same thing happened to me. You didn't happen to sear them beforehand, did you?
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ScienceAndMusic posted:So I was listening to the Giant Bombcast and they mentioned Sous-vide, and well, it seems pretty awesome. Is there a general consensus on which immersion circulator is best? I read the OP and its between the Anova and the sansaire for me... Those are both so last week. We're all about dunking the tip of an oxymapp torch in grape juice now.
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ScienceAndMusic posted:So I noticed in the OP there is a link to a sousvide guide on the iphone. Unfortunately I have a droid and such a guide doesn't exist. My anova arrived today and I was hoping to find a good webpage guide/easy to use droid app that contains all relevant temperature and cook times for various types of foods? bagsoakeat.com
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ScienceAndMusic posted:Awesome thank you! Any recommendations on a good cut of beef to try and sous vide for the first time? Most times refer to cooking the food straight out of the refrigerator. From frozen, add an additional 30 minutes per inch of thickness. For longer cook times, it all works out in the end.
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:This is totally wrong, cook time does not vary linearly with thickness. As a rule of thumb shamelessly stolen from the SVSuprime website, it works ok. Are you frequently cooking very thick frozen cuts of meat?
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:I am not, but sous vide stuff is something that is more dangerous than almost every other form if cookery if done wrong so maybe we shouldn't give bad unqualified advice in this thread?  Yes, vizzling is literally on par with whipping up some fugu after watching a couple of videos on youtube.
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 No broken Nomikus yet. I guess that's what an extra $100 buys you.
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I made last page's scrambled eggs for breakfast, only, I was running late, so I grabbed the baggie and took it to work. When I got there, I made this: Hot drat it was tasty. Maybe next time I'll use pepper too (didn't have any at the office). It's a shame my SO is weird about eggs.
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Veritek83 posted:Sever Are you kidding me? When I make hard boiled eggs, guess who gets all the hard boiled eggs!
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Aluminum pot. If I'm feeling fancy, I put it inside a slightly large aluminum pot and put tinfoil over that to keep the warm in. Some of these nerds really like the Coleman Party Stacker cooler: http://blog.nomiku.com/post/81416297888/tuesday-tip-hack-a-cooler-home-for-your-nomiku
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a foolish pianist posted:I'd go cooler over Cambro. Cambros are expensive, and there's no insulation. I have no idea why they're so popular for sous vide rigs. Restaurants already have a million kicking around so they puddle in 'em, people who don't think critically see that, and then they buy cambros too.
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MeKeV posted:Has anyone come across, or compiled, a decent set of "sous vide for convenience" type recipes. Along the lines of the curry in a bag mentioned a few pages a go. Take 2 lbs ground beef and some salt + pepper, and form it into 8 burger patties, roughly 1" thick. Bag individually, and puddle at 138*F or so for anywhere between 1.5 and 4 hours (I like to get this started after dinner, and then forget about them until just before bed). Stick 'em in an ice bath, and then into the fridge. Congratulations, you have pre-made hamburgers for the next week or so. You can sear them in a pan if you're feeling fancy, or just toss them in the microwave at work.
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I was at the grocery store and I saw some vacuum packed, pre-sauced ribs, so I decided to try 72 hour ribs: easy mode. Step 1: remove the paper and soak:  The bitchin' pot-within-a-pot helps to insulate -- probably. It at least keeps my cats from brushing up against a hot metal pot when they jump on the counter. Step 2: set course for 57 degrees:  Nomiku running at peak efficiency, captain! Step 3: aluminum foil on top to keep the wet stuff in.  Hasta la vizzle, baby.
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Save energy and get a Coleman Party Stacker Cooler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXoRMwP-Cg0
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Phantom Limb posted:What's the best UPS to buy for my Anova? I betcha something like this would manage. http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/APC-Smart-UPS-1500-LCD-UPS-1.2-kW-1200-VA/2940077.aspx
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Next contestant in the race for a reasonably priced immersion circulator: the Wifi-enabled Nomiku Pre-order one for $149 here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomiku/new-nomiku-sous-vide-wifi-connected-and-made-in-th edit: 4 inches between the min and max lines, and made in the USA! I think they learned some lessons following their headaches in the Chinese factory. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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I'm known for my cavalier attitude toward food safety, but you're perfectly okay. I can't imagine the exposed pork section dipped into the danger zone at all.
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The Sansaire fails most, the Anovas are pretty sturdy, and the o.g. Nomiku is most expensive. If you want to wait until next year for something with Wifi, get this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomiku/new-nomiku-sous-vide-wifi-connected-and-made-in-th There's also that fancy one with the happy name that I forget. What's it called? Cloud-cooker? Smile-cooker?
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Samizdata posted:Mellow? The one that will keep it cold before and after it cooks it? And that I also believe has a goon involved with it? That's the one! Thanks! Keep cold after seems like a gigantic pain in the butt rapidly chilling water. Unfortunately, you can't cool stuff by dumping electricity through a resistor like you can heating stuff.
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Hed posted:For DIYers, what water pumps have you guys had good luck with? I have cycled through a couple models on Amazon, Harbor Freight, etc. and it's always after a hot cook (>150) that it seems to really wreak havoc on the pump. Which makes sense, I'm using aquarium pumps and running these things far outside their design range. I usually spend $10-20 per pump and have an extra on hand just in case but is there a model you guys like? I probably average a new one every 6 mos. I never ran a pump. The temperature gradient across my water bath was small enough that I didn't care, and I wasn't doing anything super-delicate anyway.
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Oh my god. I puddled some burgers at 58 degrees for a few hours (waiting for my wife to get home) then tossed 'em on the grill for about two minutes per side. Way easier than cooking them on the skillet. Decent char, and like a mile of medium rare surrounded by a few millimeters of grey meat. I mixed some "fajita seasoning" in with the beef, and the bag juice smelled like the best gravy ever. I really wanted to save it, but didn't feel like doing anything with it right then.
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Test Pattern posted:OK. Should I worry about air in the headspace? IE: Do I want the attachment to evacuate a mason jar using my foodsaver? No need to worry about it.  http://blog.nomiku.com/post/94014107772/how-to-make-dulce-de-leche I asked the lady about it, and she says it's fine as long as you allow some room for the liquid to expand. The air will compress; it won't damage the jar.
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A cambro basically offers no advantage over vizzling in a stock pot you already own if you use aluminum foil to make a lid. If you already own a cambro, go nuts! If you don't, buying one is silly (unless you need to vizzle and use the stock pot at the same time, then w/e). A cooler offers the advantage of insulation over a cambro. That means your temperature is more stable, your IC's heater is on less, and you're dumping less money into your anal retentive cooking method.
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Steve Yun posted:honestly who gives a poo poo times a hundred
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Mons Hubris posted:My Anova arrived yesterday but didn't come with a manual for some reason. I don't have a Searzall but hopefully a hot pan will be good enough. http://bagsoakeat.com/
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