Cooking Sous Vide
Sous vide cooking has been gaining popularity in professional kitchens over the last few years and it is slowly working its way into the kitchens of home cooks. Despite this, cohesive information about sous vide cooking is hard to find.
Our goal here at
Cooking Sous Vide is to accumulate the best of the information out there about sous vide cooking into one place. Combined with our own experiences, this information should be able to inform home cooks interested in trying out sous vide cooking on their own.
Now in Paperback
Cooking Sous Vide: A Guide for the Home Cook is available in
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It focuses on the techniques and equipment used in home sous vide cooking. It also includes recipes, tips and tricks, and time and temperature charts for over 50 different foods.
Sous vide cooking is the process of cooking vacuum sealed food in a low temperature water bath to achieve texture and doneness not found in other cooking techniques. We'll explain the process of sous vide cooking and present some benefits and drawbacks.
There are two types of equipment you need for proper sous vide cooking: heat regulators and vacuum sealers. We look at the entire range of options you have, from items in your kitchen to high-end sous vide equipment.
Sous vide cooking affects food in different ways, here's a breakdown of some of the most important effects of sous vide and how they apply to the home kitchen.
There are three basic components that apply when you are cooking sous vide. They are pressure, temperature, and time and they are the three variables you will have control over when you are creating and tweaking sous vide dishes.
Just like any other cooking technique there are countless ways to prepare sous vide foods, we cover some of the more popular sous vide foods and some common variations.
We'll keep you updated with all the recent developments in sous vide cooking.
Our How-To section allows readers to submit questions for the community to answer. Whether it's about proper technique or where to find supplies, the How-Tos will find you an answer for all your cooking sous vide questions.