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Walked
Apr 14, 2003

MrEnigma posted:

Replacement Anova shows up today, they let me switch to red (what I originally ordered but switched to black). Now that I have red, I kind of like the black better. The white has a white top/clamp which is a bit odd.

Regardless it will work the same! Now for a 24 chuck roast.

Edit: And here it is mounted on my full size camwear 8" deep, with seal cover lid (customized).



Thanks for this; I'm copying this setup almost exactly. I also ordered one of the 1/2 size camwear 8" buckets based on your comments. I am hoping this will end up being everything I need to have some awesome steaks and pork loins. Hopefully the anova shows up expediently.

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Goon
Apr 22, 2006
Looking to cook some squid in the waterbath, no baggy. The Anova manual says to not use any non-water based liquids. Will it be an issue for the circulator if I cook something that leaves organic residues in the water?

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Goon posted:

Looking to cook some squid in the waterbath, no baggy. The Anova manual says to not use any non-water based liquids. Will it be an issue for the circulator if I cook something that leaves organic residues in the water?

Try a bag full of water

TATPants
Mar 28, 2011

Goon posted:

Looking to cook some squid in the waterbath, no baggy. The Anova manual says to not use any non-water based liquids. Will it be an issue for the circulator if I cook something that leaves organic residues in the water?

Hahaha. In my mind, I read this post as a sexual innuendo and it made me laugh. "No baggie", "non water-based liquids", and "organic residue". Those are too good to be true.

Goon
Apr 22, 2006

TATPants posted:

Hahaha. In my mind, I read this post as a sexual innuendo and it made me laugh. "No baggie", "non water-based liquids", and "organic residue". Those are too good to be true.

Lol, it gets better. The squid tubes get firm when cooked, turgid, you might say.

blacquethoven
Nov 29, 2003

Leif. posted:




I made the mistake of not using hot water when filling up the freaking massive pot, not realizing how long it would take to heat up the whole thing from 80 Farenheit. Holy poo poo. It took forever. It creeps up at about 1 degree per minute on average, occasionally going up in spurts of .3-.5 over 5-6 seconds, and then stalling out, even decreasing by .1 or .2, then recovering and going again. Granted, in my case it was a massive amount of water that it was heating up by nearly 60 degrees, but I was kind of expecting a more powerful heating element. If you started with water from an insta-hot, or start with near-boiling water and then add cool water to bring it down, you might be better off. Looking for ways to speed the time up, I started scooping water out down to the "min" line with a cup, and replacing it back up to my desired level with water from the insta-hot; as one might expect, both actions (lowering the amount of water in the pot and adding hot water to it) raised the temperature fairly quickly. This cut the time down to around 25 minutes to heat it up from 80 degrees

You should try turning the burner under your pot of water on.

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.

Genewiz posted:

I use his butter poached lobster technique the most. Thanks for the carrot cake tip.

Maybe there should be a site where regular cooks try out his recipe and rate it based on doability. :effort:

I remember a blog that was going through the French Laundry cookbook with the intent of doing every recipe, but I don't know if it's still around.

BrosephofArimathea
Jan 31, 2005

I've finally come to grips with the fact that the sky fucking fell.

neongrey posted:

I remember a blog that was going through the French Laundry cookbook with the intent of doing every recipe, but I don't know if it's still around.

http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com.au/

She has since moved on to Alinea.

Leif.
Mar 27, 2005

Son of the Defender
Formerly Diplomaticus/SWATJester

blacquethoven posted:

You should try turning the burner under your pot of water on.

There's a power cable hanging over the edge of the pot, and it's a gas burner. Seems like that'd be a fairly serious fire hazard. Also the manual says not to do that.

OBAMNA PHONE
Aug 7, 2002

Leif. posted:

There's a power cable hanging over the edge of the pot, and it's a gas burner. Seems like that'd be a fairly serious fire hazard. Also the manual says not to do that.

Agreed, pretty bad plan. Preheat the water and then take it off the burner if you're going to do that. Seems surprising that it would take so long but I'm probably spoiled by my polyscience unit.

Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!
Took me a while to get around to posting, but we ate my weird-air-in-the-bag short ribs the other day after 48 hours in the bath @ 135 degrees.

Nothing smelled rancid when I opened the bag. Something did smell a little.... weird. But I thought the same thing about a pork chop my friend ordered at a steakhouse last week and he couldn't smell it at all. I think my nose is broken. In any case, I seared the short ribs on all sides in a cast iron pan and my friends and I got down to eating them.

Verdict: One of my friends said "tasty, but just make those delicious steaks next time" - the short ribs were too mushy for him. I almost have to agree (and this was after only 48 hours, god forbid I'd done 72). But I'll just try it again for 24 or 36 hours and see if that gives us a better consistency rather than give up and stick to steaks.

The other issue we saw was the fattiness; the fat does get very soft but it doesn't render out. Do I have to take the ribs apart (off the bone) before searing and render the fat off during the sear? I do prefer the experience of eating ribs bone-in.


Edit:

BraveUlysses posted:

Preheat the water and then take it off the burner if you're going to do that.

That's a good idea, but next time he'll hopefully just remember to fill it with hot water!

Choadmaster fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Oct 23, 2013

Chemmy
Feb 4, 2001

You won't meaningfully render fat out of meat by searing it.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
When I first made shortribs I got the feeling that bone-in needed to get to 140°F to reach the same doneness as boneless at 135°F. This kind of puzzled me since most sites would say that you can cook them both the same way.

Higher temp might help firm up the meat and render the fat at any rate. I kind of doubt the mushy texture was from too much collagen.

deimos
Nov 30, 2006

Forget it man this bat is whack, it's got poobrain!
I have found that if I cool down ribs after cooking them it gives a much better texture than eating them warm, I haven't researched this effect much but I think it has to do with gelatin needing to cool a bit.

Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!

Chemmy posted:

You won't meaningfully render fat out of meat by searing it.

I hear you can if you put it fat-side-down, especially after it's softened up so much (hell, my pan had nearly a half-centimeter of fat in it after searing 8 ribs without even trying that). But I'd really rather not tear my ribs apart to do that.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.

Choadmaster posted:

I hear you can if you put it fat-side-down, especially after it's softened up so much (hell, my pan had nearly a half-centimeter of fat in it after searing 8 ribs without even trying that). But I'd really rather not tear my ribs apart to do that.
That works if the fat is in a convenient layer all together, which it really shouldn't be in shortribs. This works with something like e.g. a duck breast because a lot of the fat in duck (and in most poultry) is in a layer between the meat and the skin. Most beef, especially the parts you want to eat the most, isn't like this and has fat marbled throughout, unless you're cutting your own portions off a primal or something.

Heran Bago
Aug 18, 2006



Sous vide salmon is the the best way to eat salmon. I won't order a salmon steak or cooked salmon fillet anywhere because it will never turn out as nicely as doing myself at home. At its best the inside of a sous vide salmon filet is soft and rare like sushi but buttery and flaky like perfectly cooked salmon. Serve with seasonal veggies or greens.

This video shows off the basics. It's harder to do it perfectly consistently in a sink, bathtub, or cooler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGYyZcm6kE

But it really doesn't cover it in-depth and there are a lot of small things you can do to make it better. Brining the fish for as little as an hour makes an amazing difference in texture and only a subtle difference in taste.

Here is an amazing recipe from an amazing book that will make some of the best fish you ever ate:

http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/sous-vide-salmon-in-the-kitchen-sink/

quote:

To reach a core temperature of 45 °C / 113 °F, a 2.5 cm / 1 in thick piece of salmon will take about 25 minutes. A thinner piece may take as little as 12 minutes, while a thicker piece may take 30 minutes or more.
Our favorite temperature is 45 °C / 113 °F, which is rare. But you can go up as high as 52 °C / 126 °F for a firm texture.

There are a variety of spices you can use too, the spice mix on that page is too specific for me. I like rosemary and a little white pepper but dill or peppercorns are also good. I also like to finish it in a pan for 10 seconds using the oil it cooked in rather than butter.





Steve Yun, please edit this sous vide cooker into the OP:



Many Hot tubs can reach and hold high temperatures within a decent tolerance. 45 °C / 113 °F isn't too hot for some people and a ziplock bag full of salmon makes for a gross great party trick.

Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 24, 2013

Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!
That's funny, because my roommate who has been complaining for years about the lack of a hot tub at my house saw the Anova I just bought and threatened to buy a barrel and make a hot tub with it.

Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!

SubG posted:

That works if the fat is in a convenient layer all together, which it really shouldn't be in shortribs.

http://sassyspoon.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/short-ribs-raw.jpg

There is often a fairly thick layer of fat running through short ribs just above the bone. The front three in that photo show it off quite well.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.

Choadmaster posted:

http://sassyspoon.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/short-ribs-raw.jpg

There is often a fairly thick layer of fat running through short ribs just above the bone. The front three in that photo show it off quite well.
Then trim them. You still don't want to try to sear it off. Sear a duck breast skin side down and you'll render off a lot of the fat---because most of the fat is between the skin and the meat---and you'll still get good flavour from the browning of the skin itself. Try searing a knob of fat on a piece of beef that's already done (because it's been through the puddle machine) and you're either going to not get enough browning or you'll end up overcooking the surrounding meat rendering down the knob of fat. And you're still not meaningfully rendering the fat out of the short rib, because---and that photo you linked shows this---the meat is marbled. So if you're getting texture problems from the consistency of the fat in the meat, whatever you're doing to any surface fat isn't going to change the consistency of the rest of the fat, which is most of it.

Choadmaster
Oct 7, 2004

I don't care how snug they fit, you're nuts!
Nobody minds the marbling of the meat. It's that (occasionally very thick) layer of fat a centimeter above the bone that results in mouthfuls of fat. I can't trim it without taking the meat off the bone, which as I said I'd rather not do. Though it would save me from having to try to render it off, which would require pulling it off the bone also.

nwin
Feb 25, 2002

make's u think

Choadmaster posted:

Nobody minds the marbling of the meat. It's that (occasionally very thick) layer of fat a centimeter above the bone that results in mouthfuls of fat. I can't trim it without taking the meat off the bone, which as I said I'd rather not do. Though it would save me from having to try to render it off, which would require pulling it off the bone also.

Question regarding this:

What's the appeal of bone in or boneless when using sous vide? I cooked a t bone with a lot of fat on it and trimmed what I could because there was so much fat on it. Seemed like it might have been easier to take it off the bone while I was at it.

Chemmy
Feb 4, 2001

The bone can be nice for presentation.

nwin
Feb 25, 2002

make's u think

Chemmy posted:

The bone can be nice for presentation.

That's what I was figuring, just wanted to make sure.

Heran Bago
Aug 18, 2006



I think I've read somewhere that the bones can act like heating pipes and spread heat faster. Anyway here's this.



e:

Ultimate Mango posted:

Wait a second, do you have a searchable digital copy of this book? How did that happen?

hi-res scan, pdf software with (usually shoddy) word recognition.

Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Oct 28, 2013

Mola Yam
Jun 18, 2004

Kali Ma Shakti de!

TATPants posted:

Hahaha. In my mind, I read this post as a sexual innuendo and it made me laugh. "No baggie", "non water-based liquids", and "organic residue". Those are too good to be true.

Chemmy posted:

The bone can be nice for presentation.

deimos
Nov 30, 2006

Forget it man this bat is whack, it's got poobrain!

BrosephofArimathea posted:

Either way, make the carrot cake. at least once. It's delicious, and impressive as hell.

:catstare: did this but as a layer cake (with the buttons and walnuts on top) and it was loving delicious. Took it in to work (so I wouldn't be tempted to eat the whole thing) and it disappeared so quick.

I'll have to do the ice cream and gelée next time too (I was out of Agar and my ice cream machines bowl wasn't in the freezer for some reason.

Ultimate Mango
Jan 18, 2005

Heran Bago posted:

I think I've read somewhere that the bones can act like heating pipes and spread heat faster. Anyway here's this.



Wait a second, do you have a searchable digital copy of this book? How did that happen?

deimos
Nov 30, 2006

Forget it man this bat is whack, it's got poobrain!

Ultimate Mango posted:

Wait a second, do you have a searchable digital copy of this book? How did that happen?

:filez:

CarrKnight
May 24, 2013
I am a bit confused by this technique but I have a PID controller so I might try it out.
What confuses me is the temperature to keep to make it safe.
'
I have some salmon in my freezer, I'd like to cook it medium rare (say 45 celsius). Should I just cook it sous vide for 2 hours and done? What confuses me is that the pasteurization tables here say to keep the salmon at 55 celsius for hours to kill of the bacteria. What would I do with such overcooked salmon later though?

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006

I'm trying the 72 hour short rib recipe, seared on all sides and double-bagged in the food saver. I started it last night and when I woke up, there was a distinct smell of cooking beef in the house. The bags look sealed - no ballooning visible - but it seems weird that I can smell anything at all through two Food Saver bags. Is that normal or should I be concerned? It's a pleasant smell but it doesn't seem like it should be there at all.

Chemmy
Feb 4, 2001

Volatile aromatics will go through the bag, it's fine.

Zorak of Michigan
Jun 10, 2006

Thanks. That makes me feel better.

Ola
Jul 19, 2004

Very strange that. When I do carrots in butter at 83C, it smells disconcertingly lovely but the plastic bags have never seemed like they were leaking.

FishBulb
Mar 29, 2003

Marge, I'd like to be alone with the sandwich for a moment.

Are you going to eat it?

...yes...
So, uh, completely on a whim today I took some of the brisket I was going to smoke into pastrami, put it in a ziploc bag, submerged the air out of it, set up my slow cooker with water and made a 170 degree water bath. Sometime tomorrow afternoon baring massive temp fluctuations, I will have entirely jerry rigged ghetto sous vide corned beef.

Wish me luck?

If I don't die maybe I'll take a picture or two.

Leif.
Mar 27, 2005

Son of the Defender
Formerly Diplomaticus/SWATJester
Doing 8 hog snapper fillets and a atlantic salmon steak today.

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

Heran Bago posted:


Here is an amazing recipe from an amazing book that will make some of the best fish you ever ate:

http://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/sous-vide-salmon-in-the-kitchen-sink/


There are a variety of spices you can use too, the spice mix on that page is too specific for me. I like rosemary and a little white pepper but dill or peppercorns are also good. I also like to finish it in a pan for 10 seconds using the oil it cooked in rather than butter.

Just made this tonight, with the spice mix in the recipe. Un-loving-believable salmon.

Sides: rice, and carmelized brussel sprout thing I found when they mentioned in winter they prefer cabbage with the salmon.

Off to mop the kitchen floor.

Heran Bago
Aug 18, 2006



CarrKnight posted:

I am a bit confused by this technique but I have a PID controller so I might try it out.
What confuses me is the temperature to keep to make it safe.
'
I have some salmon in my freezer, I'd like to cook it medium rare (say 45 celsius). Should I just cook it sous vide for 2 hours and done? What confuses me is that the pasteurization tables here say to keep the salmon at 55 celsius for hours to kill of the bacteria. What would I do with such overcooked salmon later though?

I'm not sure what that table is all about. Even further down on the page it says 108°F (42°C) for rare salmon, so I don't get what they mean by pasteurized.
e: From the salmon recipe:

quote:

It is safer to use previously frozen fish than fresh fish. Because fish will be inedible if cooked to pasteurization temperatures, the fish in this recipe won’t be pasteurized. Professionally freezing fish, however, kills most pathogens that are found in fish. Never serve “lightly cooked” food to immunocompromisedpeople.
Yeah so like eating sushi, be careful! These low temperatures kill most everything you'd worry about but it's still not fit for the boy in the plastic bubble. Don't use old unfrozen fish and practice your best food safety. When in doubt cook longer.

Overcooking sous vide at a low temperature might result in some way too soft meat. Maybe thaw it out in cool or room temperature water (why not the brine?) before using the hot water bath?

What you really care about is core temperature. Let it cook for as long as you want and when you think it might be done open the bag and stab the center with an instant-read electric thermometer. If you get your target temperature then finish it, otherwise try to submerge-vacuum and seal it back up.


There are special tapes or gums you can use so you that can stab a thermometer right through the bag. This could be nice if you're some kind of scientist with a probe thermometer.


http://www.sousvidecooking.org/tag/external-probe/

Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Oct 28, 2013

Reiterpallasch
Nov 3, 2010



Fun Shoe
My Dorkfood came in earlier this week, and I ended up attempting steak--a NY strip, at 130 degrees for a hour. It came out good, but I had trouble putting a good sear on it with only a minute on each side in my cast iron skillet. I ended up giving it a little more time to develop a crust, and that ended up bringing more gray into the steaks than I really care for. Does anyone have any tips for developing a crust, fast?

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May 29, 2008

Reiterpallasch posted:

My Dorkfood came in earlier this week, and I ended up attempting steak--a NY strip, at 130 degrees for a hour. It came out good, but I had trouble putting a good sear on it with only a minute on each side in my cast iron skillet. I ended up giving it a little more time to develop a crust, and that ended up bringing more gray into the steaks than I really care for. Does anyone have any tips for developing a crust, fast?

Dry it more, make sure the pan has a thin layer of neutral oil in it and is pretty hot.

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