/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10703189]

So i eat a lot of steaks, does buying a sous vide machine make sense, implying it's only used for steaks?

[Anonymous No.10703225]

>>10703189
/ck/ will disagree, but they are awesome

The problem is its time consuming. You have to decide if an extra 1.5 hours to cook a steak for 5% improvement is worth it

[Anonymous No.10703236]

depends on so many factors

if you have fuck you money do it

otherwise pay down debt or invest that shit nigger you don't need a sue viday

[Anonymous No.10703238]

It's good if you like your steaks thicc because it will get the entire thing to a uniform temperature, but for a normal thickness of steak you can just reverse sear in less time for perfect results.

[Anonymous No.10703277]

What a retarded meme. Just get a crock pot, you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.10703284]

Do you want a sous vide machine? They aren't THAT expensive. Go for it. Don't let other people make decisions for you. I want one, and I can cook meat pretty much to perfection in an oven and a skillet using reverse sear. Just gotta get into a place with a bigger, more useful kitchen.

[Anonymous No.10703286]

>>10703189
no retard. use a cast iron pan. CAST IRON PAN. seriously this is not difficult.

pat dry. salt season. 75% heat. butter. lay steak flat, don't touch it. use tongs to flip after 3 minutes. wait 3 minutes. remove and let sit (in foil with rosemary or a plastic sealed container or something). when it is no longer steaming, garnish with rosemary and serve.

soovee is for jackasses with too much money and a stupid love of kitchen clutter

[Anonymous No.10703328]

>>10703225

>time consuming

The instant results generation telling everyone.
Fuck off millenial

[Anonymous No.10703332]

>>10703189
Cooking your food in plastic?
I certainly wouldn't do it m8.

[Anonymous No.10703338]

>>10703277
Crock pots are for stews and casseroles you flying faggot.
Americans at their finest, don't understand basic appliances and cooking techniques.

[Anonymous No.10703448]

>that 30 year old boomer who boils his steak for 5 hours

[Anonymous No.10703532]

>>10703189
>So i eat a lot of steaks, does buying a sous vide machine make sense, implying it's only used for steaks?

First, I'd go to a place where they serve sous vide steaks so you can try it out for yourself.

[Anonymous No.10703547]

>>10703286
a giant hand mixer size device and 5 qt container arent really clutter. Milkshake makers and keurigs are. Hell how often do people really use kitchenaids

[Anonymous No.10703591]

>>10703328
>only millenials like things quickly
The most common methods of cooking steak are very fast. Making a steak in pan can take less than ten minutes. If you went up to an old person and told then their steak would take an hour and a half to cook they would look at you like you were crazy. Not everything in the world thst you don't like is a product of "muh millennials."

[Anonymous No.10703938]

>>10703328
>Thinking the instant results generation is millenials and not boomers

[Anonymous No.10703941]

>>10703286
>75% heat. butter
Imagine having a cooktop so garbage that 75% heat doesnt burn butter.
>soovee is for jackasses with too much money and a stupid love of kitchen clutter
No, its for people who want the best possible quality with little to no time consideration.

People can like things you dont like.

>pic semi related - my cookfu

[Anonymous No.10703962]

>>10703532
If you've been to a decent steakhouse in the past 40 years odds are you've had it and loved it. Extremely low cook for all the meat you'd use in a shift into full salamander when ordered was a high-end restaurant kitchen technique that eventually got brought home when someone figured out that the appropriate microcontrollers were actually really cheap now.

[Anonymous No.10704561]

>>10703941
>ugly paperskin English colonist roastie
>"French Taste"

People who don't like what I like are wrong. They must be brought back into the fold of orthodoxy.

[Anonymous No.10704572]

>>10703338
Then get a pressure cooker. What's the fucking point in slow cooking a steak? It just wastes it and it becomes a damn roast at that point.

[Anonymous No.10704604]

>>10704572
Different things in the meat cook at different temps, and the generally accepted "best beef" is beef where the things that cook up to about 130 are rendered down while the things which cook above that are left intact.

It's the same principle as prime rib, except with prime rib you use the pure thermal bulk of the rib bones and shield fat to hold the meat at target temp for a couple hours even though your heat source is hotter. Immersion cooking uses a heat source that's exactly that temp so you can do it with any cut.

[Anonymous No.10704632]

>>10703189
how does that work? you boil the meat in a bag and then sear it?

[Anonymous No.10704643]

>>10704572
>>10704632

You heat the food in a water bath to get the exact right level of doneness, then you sear the outside for the malliard reaction. It's more precise than the standard method of searing the outside first and then trying to get the middle temp exactly correct.

[Anonymous No.10704685]

>>10704643
doesnt it get a weird taste from the bag?

[Anonymous No.10704764]

>>10704685
>not getting food grade bags

any cheapo double sealed ziploc or a vac seal bag works. You can even vac seal using water displacement. Sous vide makes your life easier and if you want to cook in bulk for dem /fit/ gainz its quite useful

[Anonymous No.10704766]

>>10704685
not at the low temps you'd use for meat. even just a ziploc's fine for microwaving and that runs 80 degrees hotter.

[Anonymous No.10704771]

>>10704766
ziploc is not fine for sous vide or microwave, it says so on the packaging lmao.

[Anonymous No.10704829]

>>10703189
[tapeworm intensifies]

[Anonymous No.10704839]

If you wanna try an inexpensive route you can sous vide in a beer cooler as long as it’s well insulated. Just fill it up with 135 degree water for mid rare, put your bag in, close the lid and wait.

[Anonymous No.10704842]

>>10704771
hmm, do i believe anon about ziploc or do i believe ziploc about ziploc
https://ziploc.com/en/sustainability-and-safety

[Anonymous No.10704981]

>>10704829
even US FDA which is fucking retarded knows about time/temp curves
so. you are worse than retarded

[Anonymous No.10705010]

>>10704981
found the tapeworm

[Anonymous No.10705040]

>>10704839
at this point you can walk into Walmart or Target and buy one cheaper than a beer cooler, but yeah, if you already have the cooler this works too.

[Anonymous No.10706760]

>>10703286
>75% heat
Enjoy no crust loser

[Anonymous No.10706790]

>>10704842
just read the box next time you get it, it says it's not safe on the box in the warnings.

[Anonymous No.10707300]

I can't believe how fucking stupid some of you people are. The last one of these threads I was in there was this unbelievable nincompoop who was saying sous vide was retarded because the bags would be difficult to clean.

[Anonymous No.10707320]

>>10703189
Sous vide for steaks is a meme, unless you have a restaurant and you have to cook many at once.
buy a probe thermometer and cook your steak in the oven at low temperature.
It comes out even better than with sous vide (better texture + drier surface = better searing)

[Anonymous No.10707389]

>>10703286
>I like to have 1/3 of my steak overcooked
sure, that's how we cooked steaks for like centuries.
but more advanced techniques like sous vide or reverse searing have proven to give better results

[Anonymous No.10707415]

>>10703189
You don't necessarily need to use a machine for sous vide. A big cooler will do, I think Alex the French guy has a video about this.

[Anonymous No.10707476]

>>10707415
You can also place a big pot of water on a stove and use a thermometer to keep the temperature controlled.
Those methods are ok if you want to give sous vide a try, but if you are planning to use it on a regular basis it's not worth it. The price of sous vide machines has plummeted in the past few years and they are very affordable now.

[Anonymous No.10707691]

>>10703962
Your bot is broken mate

[Anonymous No.10708517]

>>10706790
All of my boxes say it's fine, you should probably stop buying Family Dollar brand