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moktor
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Location: Conroe, TX Joined: Mon Dec 3, 2012 Posts: 376
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Thanks! I'll head that route instead then, still need to go to the supermarket for thanksgiving stuffs and can pick one up while there.
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Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:13 pm |
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moktor
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Location: Conroe, TX Joined: Mon Dec 3, 2012 Posts: 376
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Bought a cheap ribeye from Walmart a few days ago, came out amazing.
Yesterday we did Prime Rib instead of turkey and cooked that using the sous vide, and it was absolutely perfect. The only thing that I could have done a little better is at searing it after cooking, would have liked a little better development there.
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Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:06 pm |
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WanderingWalrus
Location: Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland Joined: Fri Aug 15, 2014 Posts: 516
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Well done. That is, indeed the tricky part. For my best results, the outside has to be dry. If that means sous-vide a day early, then unbag and allow to air-dry in a rack on the fridge, before a quick rub down with the fat from the bag and into a hot pan or a 500 degree oven, that's the way to go.
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Fri Nov 24, 2017 2:22 pm |
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PMB
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Thanks for the detailed explanations and sharing of experience. I'm going to look into the plastics per Pablo's hesitations. Seems reasonable to choose the plastic with care, and ensure that temperatures are kept well below any leeching or off-gassing or whatever temp level.
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Fri Nov 24, 2017 3:40 pm |
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17832
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For those of you not wanting to use plastic I've seen a few recipes that use glass containers. Not sure how that would work. Just use the vacuum bags that are meant to go in boiling water.
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Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:36 am |
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PMB
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moktor wrote: NWGunner wrote: moktor wrote: Been wanting to try sous-vide for a while now, and finally got around to ordering a device, which arrived today. I'm excited to try it out. Which one did you get? I had been saving up Amazon gift cards to by an Anova, but this one popped up in my alerts for the very reasonable price of $48 with decent reviews: https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id= ... LC-1122587If I like it and end up using it I may look to upgrade. I'm interested in your experience with that cooker... Can you do a review?
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Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:58 am |
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Wetpaperbag
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Location: olympia Joined: Sat Sep 21, 2013 Posts: 3784
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Says it all:
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Sat Nov 25, 2017 10:01 am |
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17832
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I think SV will be awesome for burgers. I can't wait to try mine. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/recip ... -hamburger
_________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux
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Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:19 pm |
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golddigger14s
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Just a heads-up. You need an 8" tall pot for the Anova SV gizmo.
_________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux
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Tue Nov 28, 2017 5:41 pm |
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NWGunner
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Location: South Seattle Joined: Thu May 2, 2013 Posts: 12475
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golddigger14s wrote: Just a heads-up. You need an 8" tall pot for the Anova SV gizmo. On Amazon, when you looked at the Anova, part way down, there was one of those "things bought together with" blurbs, that listed a container, and lid with a hinge, where you could buy all 3 together... You don't necessarily need those specific ones, but the pics might give you an idea of what you already have that might be suitable.
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Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:57 pm |
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17832
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I wen to wally world and got a big plastic cereal container for $7. Not actually cooking anything tonight, just playing around with the phone connection stuff.
_________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux
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Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:09 pm |
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moktor
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Location: Conroe, TX Joined: Mon Dec 3, 2012 Posts: 376
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PMB wrote: moktor wrote: NWGunner wrote: moktor wrote: Been wanting to try sous-vide for a while now, and finally got around to ordering a device, which arrived today. I'm excited to try it out. Which one did you get? I had been saving up Amazon gift cards to by an Anova, but this one popped up in my alerts for the very reasonable price of $48 with decent reviews: https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id= ... LC-1122587If I like it and end up using it I may look to upgrade. I'm interested in your experience with that cooker... Can you do a review? Sure! I don't have much to compare it to since I haven't used any other devices, though I did buy my dad the Anova for Christmas, so maybe I can borrow it in the future and compare the two. As far as the device itself goes, it feels a lot more substantial and higher-quality than I expected for the price. It is quite hefty, and the upper part is a nice soft-textured rubber. It has the ability to change the end cap to point the water output in a different direction if needed. The clamp worked quite well, I put it in a large stock pot, and they are nice enough to include markings on the device for min & max water levels. I didn't experiment with it, but supposedly if water drops below the min line it will shut off automatically. The controls are pretty basic. There is a blue thumbwheel that you use to adjust the temperature and time. To set temperature you press the red temperature icon on the left and then find the temp you want in .5 degree increments with the thumbwheel, then press the red temperature icon again, at which point it turns blue. Pressing the red clock icon on the right allows you to set hours, then pressing it again switches to minutes. When you are done, you press the Play button and it turns blue and the device starts doing its thing. It doesn't start counting down the timer until the water reaches the set temperature. The two times I've used it I've also used a separate instant read thermometer to periodically check the temperature, and so far it has been spot on. The device does a pretty good job at maintaining a constant temperature. Cooking a steak at 130 I briefly saw it spike to 131 for a few seconds once or twice, but for the most part it kept it really close to the set temperature. I havent' seen it spike over 1 degree +/- yet. I'm not sure what the expected accuracy is of it. According to the instruction manual it does have an option to calibrate the device's thermometer up to +/-9.9 degrees, but I haven't needed to change anything there. The only issue I ran into is trying to set the timer after you have started it. When first playing around with it, I set it to a temperature and didn't set the timer and pressed 'Go'. After it got up to temperature and seemed to be working as expected, I decided to enter a time. Apparently you can't enter a time when it is running....it looks like it worked, but it doesn't actually start the timer. You need to actually stop the device before you can enter a time for the timer. All in all I have been very pleased with it at the price ($50) I got it for. I had been wanting an Anova just because of how well it had been reviewed, plus who doesn't like nifty functionality like wifi connectivity, but I work from home, so ultimately something like wifi access to it wouldn't provide too much benefit for me. I've used it twice so far, once on a 12 oz. ribeye (roughly 2 hours...had issues with the timer as described above), and once on a 4 lb. prime rib (6.5 hours), and both times they were cooked perfectly, and the device chooched along without issue.
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Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:40 pm |
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PMB
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moktor wrote: PMB wrote: I'm interested in your experience with that cooker... Can you do a review? Sure! I don't have much to compare it to since I haven't used any other devices, though I did buy my dad the Anova for Christmas, so maybe I can borrow it in the future and compare the two. As far as the device itself goes, it feels a lot more substantial and higher-quality than I expected for the price. It is quite hefty, and the upper part is a nice soft-textured rubber. It has the ability to change the end cap to point the water output in a different direction if needed. The clamp worked quite well, I put it in a large stock pot, and they are nice enough to include markings on the device for min & max water levels. I didn't experiment with it, but supposedly if water drops below the min line it will shut off automatically. The controls are pretty basic. There is a blue thumbwheel that you use to adjust the temperature and time. To set temperature you press the red temperature icon on the left and then find the temp you want in .5 degree increments with the thumbwheel, then press the red temperature icon again, at which point it turns blue. Pressing the red clock icon on the right allows you to set hours, then pressing it again switches to minutes. When you are done, you press the Play button and it turns blue and the device starts doing its thing. It doesn't start counting down the timer until the water reaches the set temperature. The two times I've used it I've also used a separate instant read thermometer to periodically check the temperature, and so far it has been spot on. The device does a pretty good job at maintaining a constant temperature. Cooking a steak at 130 I briefly saw it spike to 131 for a few seconds once or twice, but for the most part it kept it really close to the set temperature. I havent' seen it spike over 1 degree +/- yet. I'm not sure what the expected accuracy is of it. According to the instruction manual it does have an option to calibrate the device's thermometer up to +/-9.9 degrees, but I haven't needed to change anything there. The only issue I ran into is trying to set the timer after you have started it. When first playing around with it, I set it to a temperature and didn't set the timer and pressed 'Go'. After it got up to temperature and seemed to be working as expected, I decided to enter a time. Apparently you can't enter a time when it is running....it looks like it worked, but it doesn't actually start the timer. You need to actually stop the device before you can enter a time for the timer. All in all I have been very pleased with it at the price ($50) I got it for. I had been wanting an Anova just because of how well it had been reviewed, plus who doesn't like nifty functionality like wifi connectivity, but I work from home, so ultimately something like wifi access to it wouldn't provide too much benefit for me. I've used it twice so far, once on a 12 oz. ribeye (roughly 2 hours...had issues with the timer as described above), and once on a 4 lb. prime rib (6.5 hours), and both times they were cooked perfectly, and the device chooched along without issue. I really appreciate that write up. Thank you kindly. Suggesting it to the Missus now. :tiphat:
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cmica
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Location: I-5 /512 Joined: Thu Dec 8, 2011 Posts: 15237
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im not sold on this....
tell me why 2 hrs to do a ribeye when it takes 11-15min on a grill?
6.5 hrs to do a prime rib,
whats a crock pot cant do?? low med, high....set it and forget it. same amount of cooking time and veg too.
can someone do both anova/ crockpot/ grill and show me and tell me the difference
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BadKarma
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Location: Duvall Joined: Tue Sep 13, 2011 Posts: 8668
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I just did up three thick pork chops and they turned out awesome.
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Wed Nov 29, 2017 3:24 pm |
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