While sous vide cooking produces some of the finest meals in the world, it can lack the conventional flavors we're accustomed to from grilling, barbecuing, smoking, or even oven roasting. Here are a few hacks to use, so that will never happen again. Always Brine First Brining most all meat, including beef, for sous vide cooking will add a robust flavor of your choice. The brine acts to dissolve tough muscle tissue, making your meat more tender. The salt reduces water loss during cooking, … [Read more...]
How To Keep Food Submerged in Your Sous Vide Machine | The $7 Solution
Unless you have a Sous Vide Supreme with a food holding rack, chances are you've experienced some floaters on occasion, especially when we can't use a vacuum sealer, as with burgers and scrambled eggs. I use a crock pot and a controller for my sous vide cooking, and keeping the food under water has been a constant problem with some items. After experimenting with fiberglass rods, vacuum sealed pebbles, and a horridly ineffective coil of stainless steel wire, none of which worked well, I … [Read more...]