Cooking for Geeks sous vide demo

Interview on Make: Online: http://bit.ly/9jvc4t
Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for friends. Jeff gives a demonstration of how to make your own sous vide rig.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• cooking
• geek
• O Reilly Media
• Make
• sous vide
• egg
• Jeff Potter
• cooking for geeks
• book
• demo
• diy

[LastTaboo]

Thermostatic controller... huh, I think I have a few of these lying around, right next to my decombobulators and thingamajigs.

[Halljac]

@reubenbridges I have been wondering the same thing. I think they should put out a contest where anyone can submit videos and have the opportunity to host like a 5 episode series or something if the general viewing crowd voted for them.

[CSSsonicno2]

So what you're telling me is you just spent two hours and $50 ...

to make boiled eggs?

[lgbtTV4]

@bambamstudent wrote "the egg IS the vacuum sealed bag. An egg shell is a sealed container"

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Yes and no. A egg shell is air permeable, so the shell does not provide a vacuum. If you take "sous vide" literally, then you'd need a vacuum bag because the term means "under vacuum." That said, a vacuum bag is not technically necessary. It's used simply to:

1) protect the food from the water

2) a vacuum prevents the bag from floating

3) a vacuum keeps marinade close to the meat

[lgbtTV4]

@Brandonduboff wrote "its just the thing attached to your wall that where you set the temperature for your apt"

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No, unless you want your apt to kill you. Sous vide is done from 130F-170F, and no home thermostat goes that high.  What you need is a thermocouple, not a thermostat.

[Brandonduboff]

@LastTaboo its just the thing attached to your wall that where you set the temperature for your apt or house. really not a complicated thing, find it at any home depot or the like.

[bambamstudent]

To all those people criticizing this as not cooking the egg in a vacuum sealed bag, the egg IS the vacuum sealed bag. An egg shell is a sealed container. Given your typical sous vide setup costs a fortune, I think this is brilliant. Retards.....

[intoximacated]

@Bjo15 This technique lets you get the egg to the exact temperature you want though, and evenly that temperature all the way through! That's why people sous-vide things. It's also a great technique for steaks, duck breast, and stuff like that.

[intoximacated]

@Bad2Bone98 er, not for keeping a constant, low temperature for a long time it doesn't...

[dubbster06]

just bite the bullet and buy a real immersion circulator..ull get laughed at using that thing in the culinary world

[aca192maric]

are you crazy cooking only a agg for 45 min lol xDDDDDDD :D

[funwithhydrogen]

@CrashGames2108 i think you mean retarded.......

retard