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Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2010

The Era for culinary " Sous-Vide"


The immersion circulator has been around since the 1970, it's coming back. Before, it was used to make soup in bag, or on airplanes. but now we typically use it for controlling the environment and temperature to eliminate overcooking and save a lot of natural juices that would naturally bleed out. The immersion circulator accurately controls the temperature of the fluids over a wide cooling or heating range. It looks like an outboard motor on a boat. You attach the motor side to the side of a hotel pan, turn it on, and it heats the water in the pan to whatever temperature you desire. It also circulates the water so it does not stagnate. You neet to put the meat, vegetables or seafood in a cryovac machine to seal in a plastic bags filled with food item. The machine takes the air out and air out and seals the bag. This machine is perfect for cook delicate fish like monkfish.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cook like a chef "first part"

Cooking is messy, complex, and that is as it should be. But learning a few fundamental will make you a super chef. Number one get religion, you need to understand is that your kitchen is a workshop, and all good workshops have a standard operating procedure. Before you start any meal, you need to gather all the ingredients the dish requires. this is "mise en place" is french what is everything in its place. Number two Slow Down, cook everything at once. Prepare to stand helplessly by when it is time to plate dinner, as veg. grow cold next to room temp. starch and aggressively steaming meat. While meat rest, its internal temp evens out and it gains about five degrees.