Gravy's Cooking Thread

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Joining the Sous Vide Cult this month.

I can only hope that the koolaid is as good as you all say.

Pretty excited though.
 

Adebisi

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Not enough people do ghetto sous vide like me.

I work hard for my s'vide!
 

TJT

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Yes lanx. Your advice on most food-related things is top notch sir. I follow your sage words religiously.
 

lurkingdirk

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Well, folks, I put a whole roasting chicken in the sous vide. I put it in for 16 hours at 145 because that's how the timing worked. I think about 7 hours would have done it. I stuffed it with carrots, celery, onion and garlic, seasoned it inside and out, and put about 3 cups of chicken stock in the bag with it. The stock kept the chicken immersed in the water. When I took it out, I brushed it with butter and put it under the broiler for 10 minutes and ended up with nice, crispy skin.

The chicken was perfect. Not over cooked, probably the most tender chicken I've ever had, and great flavour. The extra bonus - the chicken stock is so damned delicious. You're making two meals in one. The stock is soup ready. Throw in a couple cut carrots and some noodles, and you're done. It is delicious, like knock your socks off delicious.

10/10 will do again.
 

lurkingdirk

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Yeah, I set it up the day before we needed it for dinner because the day we ate it we were running all day long and I wouldn't have had time to cook. I threw some potatoes with a little butter and rosemary in a bag around lunch time, and pan fried them at dinner. They were great, too.
 

Adebisi

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Got my gas range hooked up today. That range top gives out some serious heat! I don't think I'll need to have any furnace air flow to the kitchen this winter :s
 

lurkingdirk

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That's actually a good thing. If you have a power outage, leave a burner on and your house will never freeze during winter. It's a bonus.
 

Adebisi

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Getting new kitchen toys gives me a full-on robot chubby.

My friends who don't cook at the level of our Cooking Thread don't understand.
 

lurkingdirk

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Yup. I'm looking forward to our kitchen redo this spring. New stove. New counters. New hardware. New island. I'm going to plumb in a sous vide hidie hole in the island counter. Gives me wood.
 

Khane

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Yup. I'm looking forward to our kitchen redo this spring. New stove. New counters. New hardware. New island. I'm going to plumb in a sous vide hidie hole in the island counter. Gives me wood.
I used to think kitchen remodels were a frivolous (and stupid) waste of money that women wanted just so they could say "it's an updated kitchen" to their friends while sipping cheap wine out of a box. Now it's MY TERRITORY and the woman doesn't get a say on what tools and gadgets I employ in my man area.
 

lurkingdirk

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I used to think kitchen remodels were a frivolous (and stupid) waste of money that women wanted just so they could say "it's an updated kitchen" to their friends while sipping cheap wine out of a box. Now it's MY TERRITORY and the woman doesn't get a say on what tools and gadgets I employ in my man area.
My kitchen is my man cave.