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Sous Vide vs. Reverse Sear...

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  • R raider2119

    Learning about using aromatics and refraining from using salt were 2 of the most important lessons I’ve learned about using SV…

    I tend to go with significantly longer cooking times, first because I cut my steaks at least an inch thick and it requires at least an hour of soak time… usually a bit more than that… and also because I tend to find deals on tasty but inexpensive meats that tends to require long long hours of soak to make it tender enough to be edible…

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    raider2119 Interesting…makes sense. Luckily I haven’t run into that yet and I tend to be generous with the salt. I would have gone longer on that eye of round but I was hungry and too excited to try it! Lol

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      raypete What is the reason for not salting prior?

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      Joe Hell it will act as a cure and change the cooking and texture. Depending on the length of the cooking. It’s like mixing burgers with salt before cooking then cooking a day later, it changes the texture or using an equilibrium brine. it’s like salting beans in the start of cooking it makes them tougher and longer to cook. Salt not only enhances flavor but it’s used to preserve.

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        Joe Hell it will act as a cure and change the cooking and texture. Depending on the length of the cooking. It’s like mixing burgers with salt before cooking then cooking a day later, it changes the texture or using an equilibrium brine. it’s like salting beans in the start of cooking it makes them tougher and longer to cook. Salt not only enhances flavor but it’s used to preserve.

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        raypete if you cook and chill (place the cooked product in Ice water for at least 20 mins) a piece of meat and retherm at a lower temperature you only have to reheat to around 129 degrees, that where your taste buds will feel comfortable at. During the chill process the meat will rest and retain the juices. So when you retherm at a lower cooking temp you haven’t introduced recooking to make the juices move. Then when you slice it you won’t have liquid on the plate to ruin a sauce you made.

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          raypete if you cook and chill (place the cooked product in Ice water for at least 20 mins) a piece of meat and retherm at a lower temperature you only have to reheat to around 129 degrees, that where your taste buds will feel comfortable at. During the chill process the meat will rest and retain the juices. So when you retherm at a lower cooking temp you haven’t introduced recooking to make the juices move. Then when you slice it you won’t have liquid on the plate to ruin a sauce you made.

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          raypete if you use time & Temperature and know pasteurization time and temp of the product and hold it there after the internal has reached it then you chill it it will keep under pressure for a few weeks. . https://blog.thermoworks.com/chicken/thermal-tips-simple-roasted-chicken/
          :https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6325383/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cooking-for-geeks/9781449389543/ch04.html Delta T cooking times work good for cured meats like hams. https://sousvide.fandom.com/wiki/Delta-T_cooking

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            raypete if you use time & Temperature and know pasteurization time and temp of the product and hold it there after the internal has reached it then you chill it it will keep under pressure for a few weeks. . https://blog.thermoworks.com/chicken/thermal-tips-simple-roasted-chicken/
            :https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6325383/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cooking-for-geeks/9781449389543/ch04.html Delta T cooking times work good for cured meats like hams. https://sousvide.fandom.com/wiki/Delta-T_cooking

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            raypete Thank you for such useful and interesting information! I love food science!

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              raider2119 I am doing to do a side by side taste test on preseasoned steak and unseasoned cooked sous vide. The reason for doing this is to get Walton’s to buy me two steaks!

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                raider2119 I am doing to do a side by side taste test on preseasoned steak and unseasoned cooked sous vide. The reason for doing this is to get Walton’s to buy me two steaks!

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                Jonathon Brilliant!

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                  raider2119 I am doing to do a side by side taste test on preseasoned steak and unseasoned cooked sous vide. The reason for doing this is to get Walton’s to buy me two steaks!

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                  Jonathon but are they getting the wagu for you?
                  Ok, preseason your traditionally cooked steak… Then do exactly the same seasoning on the SV steak after the SV, and you when you are prepping to sear it… I’m curious what your side by side results with be!

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                    raider2119 What I was actually thinking was sous vide them both, preseason one and not the other and then season the one before I sear it. I think that would give a more accurate test of when the best time to season would be?

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                      raider2119 What I was actually thinking was sous vide them both, preseason one and not the other and then season the one before I sear it. I think that would give a more accurate test of when the best time to season would be?

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                      Jonathon Sounds like a plan… eliminates an unnecessary variable from the experiment…

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                        Jonathon Sounds like a plan… eliminates an unnecessary variable from the experiment…

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                        raider2119 When you season, do you use something to bind the seasoning to the meat, be it oil, mayonnaise, mustard or the like?

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                          raider2119 you made that comment to yourself, was that intentional or were you asking me or Joe Hell ? If you’re asking me then I do not use anything to bind the seasoning to the meat. I rarely do, even when making ribs or pulled pork I generally find that the meat has enough moisture to keep it on. If I have a dry piece then I feel like I chose poorly!

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                            raider2119 you made that comment to yourself, was that intentional or were you asking me or Joe Hell ? If you’re asking me then I do not use anything to bind the seasoning to the meat. I rarely do, even when making ribs or pulled pork I generally find that the meat has enough moisture to keep it on. If I have a dry piece then I feel like I chose poorly!

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                            Jonathon My bad, meant to be asking you… I agree, I find that without surface binder I end up with a better, deeper bark… but have seen so many devotee’s of using the surface binder in various forums, I actually questioned if possibly I was doing something wrong since I was not getting a superior result when I did it…

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                              raider2119 What I was actually thinking was sous vide them both, preseason one and not the other and then season the one before I sear it. I think that would give a more accurate test of when the best time to season would be?

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                              Jonathon I normally just use Italian dressing and then tenderize let sit then grill with my steaks usually ny. strip

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                                Austin likes to rub regular yellow mustard all over his first. If you are going to use something then this is what I would use as the taste cooks completely out of it. Still, I’ve never had the need for it!

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                                  Austin likes to rub regular yellow mustard all over his first. If you are going to use something then this is what I would use as the taste cooks completely out of it. Still, I’ve never had the need for it!

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                                  Jonathon raider2119
                                  When I use a seasoning rub, most people would tell me I over season it, but I feel like I am doing the proper amount. I find that using mustard allows me to put even more seasoning on something, so that is why I do it. Usually only on large and thick pieces of meat like a pork butt though. I haven’t really compared the difference on the bark thickness though, so I’ll have to test that next time.

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                                    Jonathon raider2119
                                    When I use a seasoning rub, most people would tell me I over season it, but I feel like I am doing the proper amount. I find that using mustard allows me to put even more seasoning on something, so that is why I do it. Usually only on large and thick pieces of meat like a pork butt though. I haven’t really compared the difference on the bark thickness though, so I’ll have to test that next time.

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                                    Austin I will use a brown or Dijon mustard if I have them on hand for any larger but of beef or pork for the same reason. Horseradish also works well on beef.

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                                      Jonathon raider2119
                                      When I use a seasoning rub, most people would tell me I over season it, but I feel like I am doing the proper amount. I find that using mustard allows me to put even more seasoning on something, so that is why I do it. Usually only on large and thick pieces of meat like a pork butt though. I haven’t really compared the difference on the bark thickness though, so I’ll have to test that next time.

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                                      Austin the website smoking meat.com uses yellow mustard before seasoning almost always

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                                        raypete if you cook and chill (place the cooked product in Ice water for at least 20 mins) a piece of meat and retherm at a lower temperature you only have to reheat to around 129 degrees, that where your taste buds will feel comfortable at. During the chill process the meat will rest and retain the juices. So when you retherm at a lower cooking temp you haven’t introduced recooking to make the juices move. Then when you slice it you won’t have liquid on the plate to ruin a sauce you made.

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                                        raypete I have a leg of lamb in the Sous Vide going on 24 hours now. Patted dry and added crushed garlic, cracked pepper rosemary and zero salt. I’ll finish on the Pit Boss just to give it a kiss of smoke

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                                          Joe Hell How long did you end up Sous Videing it and how was it?

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