/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Hey man, live your own life.

>>14346282
I've had a Joule since the third batch of pre-orders and it works fantastic. ATK has it as their recommended one, too.

Duh, it doesn't have buttons so you can't adjust it tactilely like you might want to, but the app-only interface is essentially a non-factor once you've used it more than 4 times. It looks great, it does exactly what it's supposed to, very well, and it's insanely easy to clean and dry once you're done.

I've cooked whole let of lamb, bone-in rib roast, and even venison in it, and it's handled everything pretty well. A couple times it was my fault for not getting the water bath set up right and letting the water level get too low in longer cooks (24+ hours) but that's a mistake you make once or twice and then no more.

>>14346301
Agreed here, it's a useful tool.

>>14346282
I bought the cheapest anova one, it's great. Albeit it's quite time consuming so I wouldn't really use it unless I'm having people over or it's the weekend I don't want to go out for steak.

The worst part is finding a suitable vessel, all my pots have flaired lips on the top that makes clipping it on a hassle.

Also i'm a FtM Transexual if that matters

>>14346282
Lole if you wanna be a gaybo that spends hours cooking meat in a ziplok bag, that's youre coice

It's the most useful tool. You can sous vide anything. I don't even boil water anymore. I sous vide it.

i avoid plastic as much as possible and i don't really want to eat plastic soup with everything.

>>14346776
They make silicone bags for it

>>14346282
Enjoy hormone disruptors in your food because of plastic

>>14346805
Silicone isn’t pozzed ?

>>14346319

Nice job with the trip. Definitely wouldn't want that quality post to get attributed to someone else!

>>14346855
It's doesn't release anything when heated like plastic

>>14346862
Does stuff happen to the plastic bag below melting temps? I thought sous vide didn't get hot enough to make the polyethelene or whatever start to break down since you're never above like 170

>>14346282
It's for faggots. If you want a nasty unseared steak, just boil it.

>>14346876
Yes it does. Most plastic releases estrogenic chemicals at even moderate heat. Fagusea actually has a pretty good video about it

>>14346881
No one eats steak straight from the sous vide

If you want to impress people super easy it's great.
Just get an impressive cut of meat, sousvide it, sear it and it comes out perfect everytime. 650g Tommahawk steaks are a piece of piss, whole picanha roasts.

I like a homodildo up my ass from time to time, just to milk my prostate.

>>14347005
You get the exact same thing from reverse sear.

>>14347005
Fuck you, now I'm hungry for meat !

>>14347014
Except I don't have to use my brain and can just boil meat in a plastic bag.
Slow cooking is where it comes into it's own

>>14346895
No one but faggots own a suos vide.

>>14347023
Cope and seethe, cooklet

Pros and cons to everything.
It's smaller than a turkey fryer, so it's easy to store, but you can't deep fry a turkey in it.

I can definitely see an advantage to getting a sous vide rig if you want pasteurized eggs.

>>14346282
This page is what did it for me. Look at the differences in texture you can get from the same cut of meat, just by using SV.

https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/beef-short-ribs-your-way

Sure, you can get perfect steaks (though, you can probably just do that yourself without SV), but some of the things in the above link just really aren't attainable without SV.

Hello fellow sous vide owners.

I bought this because in my country it’s either the cheap clones or the originals. So far I’m unimpressed by how cheap this thing is for what I paid, but let’s see how it works.

I have 100 days to send it back without questions.

>>14346282
whats the fascination with this shit?
whatever floats your boat but being stuck with a contraption that requires you perpetually buy plastic bags is retarded.

nespresso, subscription socks and razors. how dumb do you have to be to not see through this shit?

>>14346282
I fucking love mine. Sorry, I'll take soulless consistency and hands free cooking most of the time.

>>14347528
You can literally buy silicone bags or ziplock bags that can be washed and reused.

I buy two rolls for a total of 6 meters (236 inches or whatever the fuck fantasy unit you use) and I pay 11€.

Two of them can last me two months depending on how much I cook and store, also buying the rolls it’s better because you can cut custom size bags.

>>14347580
or you could just buy a cast iron pot.

>>14347528
why do people here feel the need to shit all over everything that everyone posts just because they have no imagination, taste, sense of smell, money, or brains?

>>14346282
The Joule is probably the worst one out there because you need to use that shitty battery draining app to even turn it on and it constantly needs firmware updates to sell your metadata. If you're going to get one, I'd recommend the Anova. Be sure to get a good sized container with a cover for it and some magnets or clips to hold your food down.

If you treat it as a better slow cooker, then it's great to use. I don't get the people using it for a single steak that you could prepare in 5 minutes in a pan.

>>14347528
>perpetually buy plastic bags
Don't most people have ziplock bags anyway for sandwiches and leftovers? I just use the same bags I use for marinades. The one annoying part is needing to double bag long cooks. I've had one for years but I still can't justify getting the vacuum sealers though.

>>14346282
because you can buy a cheap slow cooker and a 10 quid pid controller with thermocouple and SSR off eBay.

>>14347841
>because you can buy a cheap slow cooker and a 10 quid pid controller with thermocouple and SSR off eBay
OR
a device designed to slow cook food to a specific temperature all set and ready to go.

Literally no reason to use one if you aren't a shit cook

>>14347841
That's not a terrible idea but it would still cook much less evenly and the minimum holding temperature is still probably too high for some dishes.

The bigger issue for me would be moisture loss from where ever you need to run the probe from. Creating a probe point for that could get very involved and would probably mean making your own lid.

>>14347891
Eh sometimes you can't be near your kitchen oven. You can set these things up two nights before a big dinner and no worries.

>>14347900
nah, just use a surface mount thermocouple and stick it to the outside of the removable ceramic pot.

>>14346301
i fucking HATE iot stuff... Yeah, it works great now, but in 10 years its going to be garbage... Because the app will be been abandoned and the oldest update wont be compatible with whatever version of android or ios is out...
I have a hand mixer and blender that i inherited from my mom that were made in the 1970s. They look ugly as sin(yellowed beige plastic) but they work fine. The sexiest and sleekist and most expensive looking IoT item can be perfectly cared for and it'll still be complete and utter garbage in 10 years. Its so fucking wasteful.
I intentionally avoid shit that even includes bluetooth or internet access, even if there are still manual controls, since some errant update might brick them. Sonos was going to brick all their 5+ year old speakers a few months ago(and probably still will in a year or 2, once people stop paying attention again)

>>14348141

Most iot devices are pure gimmicks anyway. Only thing I have that actually benefits from internet connectivity is my home security system and garage door opener.

>>14347014
nah, one of the biggest problem with reverse sear is that you have to rest it on a rack to cook and when you do that, it leaves indentations on the meat. this makes it real hard to get a good sear on that side. i switched over to sous vide because of this.

>>14346282
Pic-related would be the best sous vide on the market, if only it had manual controls on the device.