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daily-deliciousness · 2 months

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Sous vide porterhouse steak

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copperbadge · 1 year

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Friiiiiied chicken!

[ID: A plate covered in paper towel, on which are draining numerous chunks of golden-brown fried chicken, crusted with flour breading and dotted with pepper and onion seasoning.]

I’ve been struggling with fried chicken not because it’s difficult, but because no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get the breading to stick to the chicken the way it does in recipes or in restaurants. I know some restaurants have pressure-fryers, but I’ve seen enough how-to videos to know you don’t need one of those to make it happen.

I now have an immersion cooker, and I know that Shake Shack’s nuggets are sous-vide cooked and THEN breaded and fried, so I thought I’d try it. I reasoned that while the breading doesn’t stick all that well to Shake Shack’s either, their chicken is juicier and more flavorful, so I might as well give it a shot.

So I deboned and skinned a couple of chicken thighs, sous-vide cooked them at 155 for two hours, then took them out of the cooking bags, let them cool on a plate for a bit, and chucked them in the fridge. This morning I got them out, chopped the bigger bits into smaller bits, rolled them in an egg wash and then seasoned flour while I heated the oil, then fried ‘em.

They came out WILDLY better than anticipated; the breading did stick, because the chicken was cooked so no moisture was leaving it and steaming the breading off the surface from the inside, which is the usual reason this happens. The sous-vide thighs were extremely juicy and because the chicken only fried for long enough to brown the breading, the exterior wasn’t super greasy. The cold chicken heated in the time it took the breading to brown, and there was less spatter because see: less moisture.

Proof of concept! So now I’m going to try a few variations -- I’d like to brine the chicken first for that “pickley” flavor, and I’m going to try it with breast meat (my preferred meat), and also try some wings. I think sous-vide, deep-fry, and then toss with sauce could make the ballingest chicken wings ever.

#food #sam cooks #fried chicken #sous vide

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trivialbob · 5 months

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Last night's disappointing restaurant dinner left me full, but still hungry. Tonight I'm having a homemade meal. I know I will not be hungry later tonight.

I did the heavy lifting by putting a pork tenderloin into the sous vide for about three hours.

Sheila is only making a chimichurri sauce from scratch. She also has prepared red potatoes and bacon which is now roasting in the oven. When those are done she will sear the pork. None of that takes three hours.

The pre-dinner beer I'm enjoying is courtesy of Sheila. She found Surly's annual "Darkness" the other day and bought one for me. Here is Surly's description of 2023 Darkness:

Our massive Russian Imperial Stout contains waves of chocolate, coffee, cherry, and toffee, plus a non-traditional dose of aromatic hops.

A "massive" imperial stout is an excellent beer to have (just one) on a cool, late-autumn evening while waiting for one's wife to sear the pork roast.

Like my favorite wines this Surly Darkness comes packaged in a cardboard box. It's not exactly the same: You only get 16 ounces of stout versus three liters of boxed wine.

Or litres, as I like to write when I buy my French wines in this manner.

#Surly Darkness #Sous Vide #Boxes of alcohol

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stefford · 6 months

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Sous Vide Pork Leg Roast.

Crackling on sous vide pork? Yes! I have a new toy, an 8 litre sous vide slow cooker. It cooks at any temperature from 43°C to eighty something in zero point one degree increments. 0.1°! Amazing. There are many different types of SV appliances that heat and circulate water around sealed bags of food. Mine is a large slow cooker style with a spinning magnetic impeller to circulate the water…

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#comfort food #experiment #garlic #meat #pepper #recipe #slow #Sous Vide #spices

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zerofuckingwaste · 9 months

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The very first step towards zero waste is not, in fact, completely eliminating trash.

Instead, it's just being mindful of what the fuck you're actually throwing away every day. I'm keeping a piece of paper taped above my trash bin, and every time I throw something away, I write down what it is.

Then, I take one item- just one!- and figure out a concrete way to eliminate that waste. For example, I do a lot of sous vide cooking, and previously used a vacuum sealer and a plastic roll to seal all of my foods for processing, and before that, the water immersion method with plastic bags. I did my research into using silicone bags for sous vide, and found these guys:

They're these huge goddamn silicone bags with no top that can fit a whole fucking brisket. I shit you not. Since sous vide requires water to cook, they leave the top of the bag open, and water displacement naturally pushes all of the air out of the bag, leading to a perfectly sealed, perfectly cooked meat at the end of the day. Fucking fabulous.

Instead of tossing my vacuum sealer, though, I donated it to my local Buy Nothing group, along with my remaining plastic rolls. I have no other use for it, but I'm sure someone else can find a good use out of it, without me contributing to further waste.

Now, every time I cook sous vide, I produce no extra plastic waste, both my setup and cleanup are expedited, and I feel good about it. It's one win, but they add up.

Find the first, easiest thing you can change, and change it. Follow to hear more ways that you can adapt to create less waste.

#zero waste #sustainability #sustainable #self sustaining #anti consumption #anti consumerism #environment #eco friendly #trash #sous vide #cooking #plastic #silicone

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adtothebone · 1 month

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