• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Sous vide was a game changer for me. I don’t use mine often but break it out when I want to convince people I am not terrible at cooking.

    Just wish that it wasn’t necessary to use so much plastic for it. If there was any sort of plant-based film that food could be sealed in instead, it’d be perfect.

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      20 days ago

      It’s also great for cheap beef. You can throw a tri-tip or brisket in there and run it for literal days until you have meat as tender as the deli counter, while also being med-rare throughout.

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        20 days ago

        I think possibly the best steak I ever had/made was a cheap chuck steak that I gave a nice long sous vide treatment

        There is a whole lot of flavor there, but it can be as tough as shoe leather, but with sous vide it came out as tender as any filet, but way beefier

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      20 days ago

      We use silicon bags and magnets. You let the top of the bag drape over the side of the bucket(tub? basin?) and hold it in place with a few magnets. From what I can tell the results are the same for the steaks and meat we cook and none of the sketchiness from eating slow heated plastic.