sous vide

  • Precision Cook Your Own Excellent Cold Cuts

    I love pork. Cured pork, uncured pork, roasted pork and breaded pork. I love the whole range of ham — from the cheapest mechanically formed slices to acorn-fed iberico. Most pork preparations are easy enough to DIY, but “homemade cold cuts” is not a phrase you hear very frequently, which is too bad, because they’re…


  • You Actually Should Rest Precision Cooked Meat

    Most precision cooked meat recipes follow a pretty standard format: Put your meat in a plastic bag, place the bag in a water bath set to your desired temperature, cook the meat for about an hour, then finish the meat on the grill or super hot pan. This is a fine, seemingly unflawed sequence of…


  • Make Hollandaise Sauce The Easy Way With An Immersion Circulator

    Staying home is almost always preferable to going out, particularly before noon. Going out for brunch means standing in line, drinking weak mimosas, and (depending on the establishment) being around children. But all of that can be worth it if the place has a good eggs benedict, mainly because hollandaise sauce is notoriously finicky.


  • How To Cook Chicken Necks

    How To Cook Chicken Necks

    When eating an animal, it’s important to eat as much of that animal as possible, and more often that not those “unusual” pieces are some of the most flavorful. This is true of the pig face, and it’s true of the chicken neck.