Sous vide

[jonumberone]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

A different Sous Vide question:

When looking at cook times and temps on the internet I see huge variances -- some will say to cook at 135* for 2 hours and others will say 138*/140 for 45 minutes. I've seen this beef, lamb and now pork (1" pork loin chops). How do you know which time/temp combination to go with?

I just select a temp that I want my meat to be cooked to.
I already know that I don't want my beef cooked above 135° and my pork above 140°.
From there I use the minimum time, and if I cook it a bit longer; no worries.
Using a 1" Pork chop as an example, I don't think there would be any noticeable textural differences between a chop cooked for an hour vs one that has been cooked for 3 hours.
With that big of a window, I don't see any reason to really worry about the cook time. As long as I hit the minimum, I'm fine.
If using a more delicate piece of protein, like fish, I would pay more attention to the time.

As for the pasteurizing the meat, I read the min temp is 130° and the food needs to be held there for 112 min to completely kill all bacteria.
As the temp goes up, the time needed to pasteurize comes down.
When I did the rack of lamb, I cooked it at 130° for this reason.
I prefer my lamb at 125°.
I am finding with the sous vide method, since the doneness is edge to edge, I can actually cook meat to a higher temp, since I don't have to worry about the outer portion being overcooked while trying to reach the desired temp in the center.

[CigarNut]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

I just select a temp that I want my meat to be cooked to.
I already know that I don't want my beef cooked above 135° and my pork above 140°.
From there I use the minimum time, and if I cook it a bit longer; no worries.
Using a 1" Pork chop as an example, I don't think there would be any noticeable textural differences between a chop cooked for an hour vs one that has been cooked for 3 hours.
With that big of a window, I don't see any reason to really worry about the cook time. As long as I hit the minimum, I'm fine.
If using a more delicate piece of protein, like fish, I would pay more attention to the time.

As for the pasteurizing the meat, I read the min temp is 130° and the food needs to be held there for 112 min to completely kill all bacteria.
As the temp goes up, the time needed to pasteurize comes down.
When I did the rack of lamb, I cooked it at 130° for this reason.
I prefer my lamb at 125°.
I am finding with the sous vide method, since the doneness is edge to edge, I can actually cook meat to a higher temp, since I don't have to worry about the outer portion being overcooked while trying to reach the desired temp in the center.

Thanks for the info!

[T.G]

Michael, there is also a time vs temp equation for killing bacteria. You can pasteurize with high temp (165F and up) almost instantly, or you can slow kill over time at lower temps (above 130F).



Sous vide brings up an interesting issue with low temp cooks, like the steak I cooked the other day was 45 min at 129F. 129 is below the minimum kill temp, and 45 is no where near long enough to pasteurize at the minimum temp. The grace there is that whole muscle is less risky since bacteria live on the surface and can't penetrate the meat and that I sear with a blowtorch. Ground, on the other hand, every bit of it is exposed to air during the grind and could become contaminated.

I don't know the numbers of cases, but according to my contact who runs the butcher program at the university, most cases of bacterial food poisoning are due to improperly handled and improperly cooked (under-done) ground beef. Most people are scared enough of salmonella on chicken and turkey that they over cook those ground meats. Beef, people think of medium rare hamburgers. While they taste great, they are, unfortunately, potential risks. Almost no one gets bacterial food poisoning from a medium rare or even rare steak though.

[CigarNut]

Thanks, Adam!

[CigarNut]

I made some pork loin chops (from Costco) seasoned with salt and crushed garlic at 140* for an hour, then seared 60 seconds on a side in lard:



I think these are my best Sous Vide dish so far.

[bonjing]

Looking forward to any creations that you guys whipped up for Christmas dinner.

[bvilchez]

Santa must have seen this thread. Took good care of me this year.

[massphatness]

My presentation is for sh!t, but the prime rib roast was delicious

[CigarNut]

Looks fantastic, Vin!

[Chainsaw13]

No pics, but did another turkey breast. Turned out fantastic. 4 hours at 145. Nice and juicy. Didn't even need the gravy I made.

[Black Coral]

Did flap steak 139 for 11 hours great fajitas. Two mor packs still in going to go till tomorrow and see how much better they are.

Santa bought me a searzall so will see the difference tomorrow

[Chainsaw13]

Originally Posted by Black Coral

Did flap steak 139 for 11 hours great fajitas. Two mor packs still in going to go till tomorrow and see how much better they are.

Santa bought me a searzall so will see the difference tomorrow

Hopefully you got the searzall before the price went up.

[jonumberone]

Looks good, Vin.
Did you carve it with a chainsaw? I hope you asked Santa for a knife sharpener.

Did a rack of pork for Christmas dinner.
4 hours @ 138°
Finished exclusively with the new Searzall that was under the tree.
There's going to be a bit of a learning curve with the Searzall, but overall I was happy with the results of the sear
I used the same fresh garlic and rosemary seasoning I did on the other porkchop I posted here.
The finished product was spectacular.

[CigarNut]

Looks great, Dom!

[markem]

Brisket underway. 24 hours.

[T.G]

Waiting to see how good Anova's customer service is. One of the display segments for the temp on my cooker went out again. It was actually failed on the first plug in right out of the box, but then it came back on after a few minutes. I decided I'd wait to see if it happened again, it did. Submitted a warranty claim Monday morning, waiting to hear back.

[jonumberone]

Originally Posted by T.G

Waiting to see how good Anova's customer service is.

Any updates, Adam?

I did some garlic confit yesterday. Real simple, and real delicious. Followed the recipe on the Anova app.



I have some ribeye steaks for later tonight.
Going to sear them off with only the Searzall.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

Any updates, Adam?

About 2 days after I put in the CS request, I received an email asking me to confirm my address and that was the last I heard. They didn't indicate what they were doing, nor have they emailed a tracking number, so I don't really know what they are doing.

Garlic confit, I'm going to have to try that.


The country ribs went for about 31 hours at 140F, came out very tender, almost too tender. I could have, and still might, make pate out of them. The nice part was being able to easily remove and discard the chunks of fat since they didn't render.

[CigarNut]

Good luck, Adam!

How did that Brisket turn out, Mark??

[markem]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

How did that Brisket turn out, Mark??

Quite good, Michael. Fall apart tender. The fat cat just fell off, so I used it as part of the sear. Didn't need the sear (fell apart) but I like crunchy bits.