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  • yabba
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    I own a restaurant and do my prawns Sous Vide (as well as other meats). I do it for 15 mins at 65 degrees and they melt in the mouth - no one has died yet.... An hour is a long time for a prawn.

    Just my two cents

    Originally posted by bigdaddy View Post
    60C for well done KW...I had to cook the prawns for an hour at 60 C so 1/2 into their cook I dropped the salmon in...It was more well done than we normally prefer but was prepared for that as the prawns had to be cooked at a higher temp...Would aim for about 52-54 C for a nice thick piece for 1/2 hr if cooking the fish by itself...

    Cheers.

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  • Thundergod
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    My son bought the Aldi machine a few weeks ago.
    So far he's cooked a pork shoulder for 21hrs and a piece of chuck steak for 48hrs. Both extremely tender.

    He's also made ricotta and mozzarella and intends to make haloumi next.

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  • bigdaddy
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    You like your salmon rare do you Jonathon?....Thats just the right temp for that...I'm OK with rare I have sushi a bit and like fresh salmon sushis but for steaks I prefer it medium...

    You can add Bigdaddy's special hamburgers to the sous vide list...I reckon I'd keep to cooking them on the barbie..I tasted no difference with the hamburgers...I'll give it a bit more of a play with the temps and times though...And add rump lamb to the list as well for a double thumbs up. Tonight is pork chops... And apple for the apple sauce...

    Cheers.

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  • Jonathon
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    I'm more a 45 degree man for salmon.

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  • bigdaddy
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    Originally posted by kwantfm View Post
    What temp did you cook the salmon at?
    60C for well done KW...I had to cook the prawns for an hour at 60 C so 1/2 into their cook I dropped the salmon in...It was more well done than we normally prefer but was prepared for that as the prawns had to be cooked at a higher temp...Would aim for about 52-54 C for a nice thick piece for 1/2 hr if cooking the fish by itself...

    Cheers.

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  • kwantfm
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    What temp did you cook the salmon at?

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  • bigdaddy
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    Went all out and fancy tonight... Cooked Prawns, Salmon, Garlic potatoes, honey carrots and broccoli all in one sitting in the sous vide...A few things need adjusting but even so the meal was beautiful...So juicy and flavoursome...

    The salmon was browned off with a cooks blow torch and the potatoes were browned off in a very hot oven set at 250C for 5 mins...

    Enjoy...

    Cheers.
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  • Steve82
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    Fish is by far my favourite thing to cook in my immersion circulator.

    I have had a cheapo MAXKON food saver for about 5 years, still going strong. The beauty of it is that it has a separate button for sealing, so you can choose when to make the seal.

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  • Jonathon
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    Originally posted by kwantfm View Post
    Try cooking fish... of all the meats I think that fish sees the very greatest benefit.
    And it cooks in the shortest time, typically only 30 mins or so for a fillet of salmon, so requires very little planning.

    When cooking fish I don't use my vacuum machine as that can be too harsh on the fish, instead I just seal in a snap lock bag. You can get vacuum sealers with adjustable levels of suction, but I think they're seriously expensive.

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  • kwantfm
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    Try cooking fish... of all the meats I think that fish sees the very greatest benefit.

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  • bigdaddy
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    I recently purchased a Breville Sous Vide Supreme....And updated my old vacuum sealer, both on a super duper special.

    Having a ball

    So far I have cooked

    Marinated chicken 1/2s
    Lamb shanks
    Rump steak
    and Hens eggs...

    The flavour and juiciness of the food cooked is excellent, even when you cook the rump steak to well done not medium rare like we like it

    I love the way you can just place eggs into the machine at a predefined temperature 40 mins later you have an egg cooked really nicely...

    I'm looking at doing corned beef soon...

    Learning new tricks all the time as we go...

    I can see it will get a lot of use over winter, whether or not it gets a lot of use over summer remains to be seen...

    Cheers.

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  • Journeyman
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    Seems they are on a good thing - they set out for $100,000 and have $1.5million at present. I've got an email says they have a secondary target of 1.77million - haven't looked yet to see what that means.

    But for anyone interested in sous vide, I'd say this is definitely something to go for.

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  • lemoo
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    keep monitoring it journeyman
    people switch rewards quite often so you may be able to snag a lower priced reward level!

    you can also use it without the app based on feedback from anova so the app is more a companion in that sense

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  • Journeyman
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    I'm now on the kickstarter project as well. Looking forward to getting the Anova and have lots to do with it when it arrives. You can get on there to get one for $159 with free worldwide shipping as of now - not sure how long that reward will last.

    Everything else I saw for sous vide started around $600 for something that looks like a baking dish - the Anova just clips onto whatever size pot you want to use. Plus you can look up temp/time on your phone and it will program the Anova for you. Bit of a gimmick but if they do the app right could be very handy.

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  • lemoo
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    yup was just about to post that anova have the new version on kickstarter at the moment
    was lucky enough to snag one of the foundation level ones!

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