Sous Vide Cooking: How to Get Started | Serious Eats

However, with sous vide cooking, this time is almost 100% hands-off. You will not achieve the exact same sear. Flag-waving sous vide zealots may claim otherwise, but the rapid sear you can achieve after cooking sous vide will not be as thick or crusty as the sear you get from a traditional cooking method.

Sous Vide Buffalo Chicken Wings Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking the wings sous vide tenderizes the meat and melts the collagen-rich connective tissue without drying it out. This recipe lets you choose the temperature and time to get exactly the results you want. Air-drying the wings before frying them ensures they crisp up properly.

Sous Vide Recipes | Serious Eats

Sous Vide Recipes. Fallen in love with the consistency, convenience, and superior results of sous vide cooking? We don't blame you. Our recipes for sous vide steak, chicken breast, seafood, and much more will keep that fancy little precision cooker of yours busy for months.

The Best Immersion Circulators for Sous Vide Cooking

Over the past decade, sous vide cooking has made the jump from fine-dining restaurants to home kitchens, and, with it, so have the devices that make such ultra-precise, low-temperature cooking possible. Immersion circulators have gone from being expensive pieces of laboratory equipment to affordable ...

Sous Vide Duck Confit Recipe | Serious Eats

There are few preparations better suited to sous vide cooking than confit, a technique that traditionally involves gently cooking a meat in its own rendered fat. When you use sous vide to make duck confit, there’s no need for any extra rendered fat, because the small amount that renders from the ...

How to Cook Juicy Sous Vide Shrimp | The Food Lab ...

The beauty of sous-vide is that when placed in a plastic bag, shrimp lose very little flavor and come out tasting extra-shrimpy and flavorful without the need for flavorings. But that's not to say that you can't add other aromatics if you'd like. Cooking sous vide affords you the opportunity to infuse the shrimp with flavor while they cook.

Sous Vide Pork Chops Recipe | Serious Eats

Preheat a sous vide cooker to the desired final temperature according to the chart above. Season pork chops generously with salt and pepper. Place in sous vide bags along with herbs, garlic, and shallots (if using) and distribute evenly. Seal bags and place in water bath for time recommended in chart above.

Sous Vide Salmon Recipe | Serious Eats

You think chicken breasts are delicate? Salmon has it beat by a mile. With practice, you can get to the point of nailing a perfect medium-rare center on a piece of poached or pan-seared salmon. But practicing on salmon can get pricey, and sous vide will guarantee perfectly moist, tender results each time. Sous vide also allows you to achieve textures you never knew were possible, from buttery ...

Sous Vide Lobster Recipe | Serious Eats

If buttery, tender, sweet poached flavor is what you're after, there's no better way to cook it than sous vide. It's also a heck of a lot more foolproof than boiling or steaming, and affords the opportunity to infuse that lobster meat with extra flavor. Think: lobster with the butter built right into it. Doesn't that sound swell?

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Sous Vide Pork Tenderloin Recipe | Serious Eats

Small enough to cook relatively quickly, but large and elegant enough to make a centerpiece roast, pork tenderloin is the kind of dish to pull out when you're feeling extra fancy on a weeknight. Sous vide is the most foolproof way to get it on the table with consistently great flavor and a buttery, ultra-tender texture.

Butter-Basted Sous Vide Halibut Recipe | Serious Eats

Firm yet flaky, with a heartier texture and flavor than other widely available white fish on the market. Halibut cooks more like a thick steak—well-browned and -crusted on the outside, with a juicy, tender center. And, just like with a steak, cooking sous vide can help you nail that medium-rare center every time. Here's how to do it.

The Food Lab's Complete Guide to Sous Vide Steak | Serious ...

Steak is one of the most popular foods for first-time sous vide enthusiasts to cook, and with good reason. Cooking steak the traditional way, in a cast iron skillet or on the grill, leaves lots of room for error, and an over- or undercooked steak is a big mistake to make when there's a prime-grade ...

Sous Vide Chicken Breast Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking chicken sous vide allows for unparalleled control over cooking temperature and, therefore, level of juiciness. Following precise temperature and time charts gives you the ability to get exactly the result you want. Instructions for finishing the chicken in the pan or on the grill offer ...

How to Cook Sous Vide Chicken Breast | The Food Lab ...

Believe it or not, chicken breast doesn't have to be bland, dry, stringy, or insipid. Your chicken breast can achieve a level of juiciness you thought only the best pork chops could have, and the way to get there is by cooking it sous vide. Here's our comprehensive guide to using the sous vide method to revolutionize your chicken.

Sous Vide Barbecue Pork Ribs Recipe | Serious Eats

I was a skeptic at first, but I'm going to say it now: When done properly, ribs cooked sous vide are every bit as good as traditional barbecue, if not better. Not only that, but they're far more replicable, they take much less effort, they take less practice, and, to top it off, they can be cooked year-round, indoors.

How To Make Sous Vide Chicken Thighs With Crispy Skin ...

Sous-vide chicken is so darn juicy, it doesn't really need a sauce, but it seemed a shame to waste the gelatin-rich meat juices that collect in the sous-vide bags after cooking chicken thighs. I used that gelled liquid as the base for a quick and easy pan sauce with whole mustard seed, wine, and butter.

Sous Vide Steaks Recipe | Serious Eats

Sous vide is the ideal way to prepare steak for perfectly even edge-to-edge cooking and foolproof results. These sous vide steaks can be finished in a pan or on the grill.

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How to Make Sous Vide Duck Confit. Not only does sous vide cooking produce an exceptional version of confit duck leg, it's far easier than the traditional method. [Video: The Serious Eats Team] Read the Full Article

Sous Vide Burgers Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking burgers sous vide allows for unparalleled control over cooking temperature and, therefore, level of juiciness. Following precise temperature and time charts gives you the ability to get exactly the result you want. Instructions for finishing the burger in the pan or on the grill offer ...

Sous Vide Smoked Brisket Recipe | Serious Eats

Good brisket is often called the Holy Grail of barbecue—an apt description, given how rarely you find good smoked beef brisket in the wild. Sous vide cooking changes all that by allowing even a novice to produce brisket that's as moist and tender as the very best stuff you'll find in Austin or Lockhart, with all the savory brisket rub and smoky flavor you could want.

Sous Vide Sausages Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking sausages sous vide gives you complete control over their finished texture and juiciness. Browning the sausages on the grill or in a skillet after cooking them sous vide gives them color and external texture.

Sous Vide Glazed Carrots Recipe | Serious Eats

There are some vegetables for which sous-vide cooking can't be beat. Carrots top that list. When cooked in a sealed bag with a little bit of butter, sugar, and salt, the natural flavor of the carrot intensifies into a sweeter, stronger, and downright tastier version of itself. at 183°F, carrots ...

6 Sous Vide Beef Recipes for Steaks, Burgers, Brisket, and ...

Sous vide is a predictably excellent way to cook tough cuts of beef. The slow, gentle cooking breaks down stubborn sinew and leaves you with buttery, rich, juicy meat. So, of course, we developed recipes for sous vide brisket and heartier cuts like beef chuck. But we also think sous vide can be the ...

Sous Vide Barbecue Pulled Pork Shoulder Recipe | Serious Eats

Cooking sous vide takes all of the guesswork out of traditionally attention-intensive barbecue. Combining sous vide cooking with actual smoke from the grill makes for pulled pork that is moist and tender yet still smoky, with a great bark.

Sous Vide Carnitas for Tacos (Crispy Mexican-Style Pulled ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Carnitas are the undisputed king of the taco cart. The Mexican answer to American pulled pork, at their best they're moist, juicy, and ultra porky, with the rich, tender texture of a French confit, and riddled with plenty of well-browned, crisp edges. At home, I've been making them for years using my oven-based recipe, and, while it's a fantastic and ...

5 Sous Vide Seafood Recipes for Perfect Lobster, Shrimp ...

Sous vide might as well have been designed for cooking tuna. With so much control over final doneness and texture, you can achieve nearly raw, firm and moist, meaty, or—if you're into it—even crumbly canned-style tuna. Sous Vide Tuna Recipe » Back to the full list. Sous Vide Salmon [Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

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Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

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BraveTart's Ultimate Guide to Sous Vide Desserts | Serious ...

Almost invariably, whenever I post a new recipe there are folks lined up to ask whether it can be cooked sous vide. Even when the recipe in question is a Hostess Donette. Desserts need to expand, rise, evaporate, reduce, brown, crisp, and so many other things that just aren't going to happen in a steamy bag.

Guide to Sous Vide Eggs | The Food Lab | Serious Eats

With the arrival of a couple of inexpensive home circulator solutions, the time is ripe for home cooks to get in on the sous-vide egg action. Today we're going to talk about the ins and outs of cooking eggs in the shell in a water bath.

Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

11 Sous Vide Pork Recipes for Tender, Juicier Meat See the list. Techniques. Breakfast and Brunch All the Best Ways to Cook Bacon (And All the Ways Not To) We've tested just about every way, and then some. Techniques Butter-Basting: A Classic Technique Everyone Should Know.

Sous Vide Pork Shoulder Chashu Recipe | Serious Eats

The shoulder can be tied and braised in the same way as the pork belly in Kenji's braised-chashu recipe, but it can also be cooked sous vide, which gives the cook total control over what temperature the pork is cooked to. This recipe recommends cooking the pork to 145°F (63°C).

The Food Lab's Complete Guide to Sous Vide Pork Chops ...

Q: Can I brown sous vide pork chops? Sous vide precision cooking on its own doesn't achieve the high temperatures needed to trigger the Maillard browning reactions. Foods cooked sous vide need to be finished via a higher heat method if browning and crispness are on the menu.

Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

From sous vide barbecue ribs to pressure cooker pasta sauce, let these recipes transport you to a pork-filled paradise. For those with a sous vide cooker, this recipe yields soft, juicy, and flavorful slices of pork that still have some bite ...

Pork Recipes | Serious Eats

From sous vide barbecue ribs to pressure cooker pasta sauce, let these recipes transport you to a pork-filled paradise. Pork shoulder is cut into steaks and rubbed with a mix of five-spice powder, brown sugar, and salt, then smoked with a sweet hoisin-honey glaze ...

11 Sous Vide Pork Recipes for Tender, Juicier Meat ...

Sous vide may well be the best way to cook sausage. The slow cooking ensures the meat doesn't lose any juiciness, and finishing the sausages on a grill or in a skillet makes them nice and crisp on the outside. Sous Vide Sausages Recipe » Back to the full list. Sous Vide Barbecue Pork Ribs [Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Sous Vide Smoked Beef Chuck Recipe | Serious Eats

Beef chuck is an excellent alternative to brisket for barbecue. It's easier to find, cheaper, and more foolproof. Cooking it sous vide before smoking makes it even more foolproof, guaranteeing you tender and juicy results. Cooking sous vide takes all of the guesswork out of traditionally attention ...

The Best Way to Cook Bacon: Stovetop, Oven, Grill, and ...

There are as many ways to cook bacon as there are varieties of the smoked meat, but not all are created equal. Here's everything we know about cooking bacon on the stovetop, in the oven, sous vide, on the grill, and more.

Sous Vide Poached Shrimp Recipe | Serious Eats

Shrimp cooked through traditional methods can be fantastic but nailing the perfect temperature can be a bit hit or miss. With a sous vide cooker, you don't have this issue because that short window of time between perfect and overcooked stretches out to a good half hour or so. Sous vide also allows you to achieve textures that you can't really achieve through more traditional methods and ...

How to Cook Sous Vide Barbecue Ribs | The Food Lab ...

Some sous vide recipes use a hybrid method, either starting or finishing the ribs in the smoker to add real smoke flavor to them. To me, this seems to miss the point. If I'm willing to fire up the smoker, then there are any number of traditional recipes out there that don't necessarily require sous vide for great results.

Meat and Poultry Recipes | Serious Eats

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How to Make Sous Vide Chicken Wings | Serious Eats

In the linked recipe at the top and bottom of this article, I show how to make Buffalo wings by tossing them in that classic combo of Frank's RedHot and butter, but you can follow many other deep-fried wing recipes using this same process of cooking them sous vide first, air-drying them, and finishing them off with a quick dunk in hot oil.

Sous Vide 101: Duck Breast Recipe | Serious Eats

This recipe requires the use of a sous-vide cooker or the beer cooler hack. As a meat that is best served medium rare, duck breast makes an ideal candidate to cook sous-vide. By cooking it at 130°F for two hours, much of the fat under the skin begins to soften and render out while the proteins in ...

How to Cook Sous Vide Duck Confit | Serious Eats

There are few preparations better suited to sous vide cooking than confit, a technique that traditionally involves gently cooking a meat in its own rendered fat. Using sous vide to make duck confit eliminates the need for rendered fat, and the precise temperature control allows you to cook the legs for the absolute best texture—insanely silky and fork-tender.

How to Cook Sous Vide Smoked Brisket | The Food Lab ...

Good brisket is often called the Holy Grail of barbecue—an apt description, given how rarely you find good smoked beef brisket in the wild. Sous vide cooking changes all that by allowing even a novice to produce brisket that's as moist and tender as the very best stuff you'll find in Austin or Lockhart, with all the savory brisket rub and smoky flavor you could want.

How to Cook Tuna Sous Vide | The Food Lab | Serious Eats

Sous vide is also a great way to prepare tuna to be served nearly raw, sashimi-style, or to be used in recipes where you'd typically use canned tuna, giving you better texture and flavor than any canned option.