November 2016 Blog

Sous-vide: a highly efficient cooking method

Sous-vide (French for “under vacuum”) is not a new cooking method, but it has garnered at lot of attention recently, and has come to be associated with the type of cuisine produced by modern high-end restaurants on the vanguard of innovation. Basically, this culinary technique involves thoroughly wrapping or sealing a portioned food item (meat, fish, vegetables etc.) and submerging it in a carefully controlled water bath, where exactitude of water temperature and duration of submersion results in a precisely cooked product. This is achieved with a container of water, and a device to precisely heat the water and control its temperature.

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