steak lovers

[djom1cincy]

Last night I tried out a new way to cook steak. Lets just say it was the most tender and juicy steak I've ever had and that includes 50$ steaks at restaurants. The wife wasn't so sure it was going to turn out good but she loved it also. I'll post a link with all the info below. Just a short how to from me.

Two steaks and season them.

Seal them in a plastic bag. I used vac seal bag.

Take a pot of water and bring up to 140 on the stove. Thats for a nice pink medium finish.

Drop in the steaks and let cook for 45 minutes per inch thick. Its important to hold the water temp steady. You can let them cook longer with out over cooking.

When finish sear them. I did this with a small propane torch.

Serve and enjoy.

For a different finish on your steaks you can cook at different temps.
120 rare, 130 med rare, 140 medium, 150 med well, 160 well.

Now for the link with great info on it. Be sure to read through it. Lots to learn.
So I can't figure out how to copy and paste with this new mac. Google "sous vide steak" Its the first link to come up. Its labeled "sous-vide 101" Try it and enjoy.:bigthumb

[djom1cincy]

Figured out how to copy and paste. Here's the site with good info on cooking the way I posted.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/03/how-to-sous-vide-steak.html

[jktruckin06]

I heard about this before. There is some special plug in the wall pot you can buy that maintains the temp alot closer. This is a french technique right? Like they said, meats cooked over a certain temp causes the good tasting proteins and enzymes to cook off or something. I need to try it.

[djom1cincy]

There is a cooking pot you can buy but cost big bucks. I used a digital thermometer with a transmitter and receiver. It has a alarm I had set at 142 that would sound. I then added a cup of cool water to bring it back down. My stove held it real well at 139. I only added 2 cups of water over a hour and half. Doing it that way I held 138-141 the whole cook time. You just have to find the sweet spot on your stove.

[sean]

Sounds interesting but thats way to long to make. Ill stock with the grill.

[Chris Lazzo]

If you read up you can convert a cheap crock pot to hold whatever temp you want. Same people took a standard oven did some rewiring to it, double it's normal temps and broiled steaks in it. Think it reached like 600 degrees or something. It was a steak cooking machine at those temps.

Think they may have bypassed the lock so you can open the door in clean mode.....

Seen this cooking method before and it's suppose to be unreal.


Got to try it here soon.

[djom1cincy]

It was unreal.

[Goldenpony]

Heard of something similiar. Put all the ingredients in a zip lock bag for an omlett, beaten eggs, onions, mushrooms, green peppers, meat, cheese - whatever. Close the bag and put in boiling water for 15 minutes. Open the bag and dump out an omlett. Sounds cool to me too.

[1987LXVert]

Tryed it the other night and it was excellent :bigthumb