Have You Heard Of Sous Vide Cooking ?

February 11th, 2011

If you’re a chef or maybe an enthusiastic amateur chef, you will have probably heard the term Sous Vide. It’s a relatively innovative cooking method that appears to be fashionable with chefs and is now coming into the everyday home with the release of the Supreme water oven. This short article will cover what Sous vide cooking is all about.

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Thus Sous Vide means under pressure in French. It was a way to cook foods that was first started by commercial food companies. It was adopted by a French Cook during the 1970′s and ever since then it’s popularity has steadily developed. These days cooks with or without a Michelin star have almost certainly tried the technique and now the common home cook can try it to boot.

The technique involves sealing a portion of food in a vacuum pack and then cooking it in a water bath. Sounds simple enough. The concept is that the food is sealed as if inside a vacuum using a plastic coating. When the item is placed inside a water oven it cooks but because there’s nowhere for the juices and goodness of the food to go, it stays in the food itself.

This means the food can retain all its goodness and a wonderful flavor. Not a bit is lost to the surrounding environment or degraded due to the cooking process.

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Furthermore since the meals are cooked in an unusual way (in water but sealed from the water) it has a new texture than the eater is likely to be used to. This means the eater is in for a treat – an innovative new consuming experience even when the ingredients are well known and have been used hundreds of times before.

It is possible to make just about anything with the Sous Vide practice although it appears that meats are the preferred types of foodstuff to enter a water bath. The Sous Vide effect on meat is in making it tender.

People depict how cheap cuts of meat can seem to be Fillet Mignon after being within a water bath for a few hours. You’re able to either sear the meat before it’s vacuum sealed or when it comes from the water oven. In addition, you can put seasoning and even a marinade with the meat and cook it inside the water oven. The results are supposed to be delectable.

As already stated, Sous Vide cooking in the home has become available to the average person using the Supreme water oven and Demi oven. One may try this modern new approach to cook food from the comfort of your own home. Better still, call some buddies round and have a dinner party.

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