Reddit mentions of Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (The Thomas Keller Library)

The process is called sous-vide. It's a fairly new technique and only began making its way into high-end restaurants a few years ago. Thomas Keller wrote a book on it, which is valuable because it's one of the few on the subject that are available in English.

At the high end, sous-vide is done with chamber sealers and immersion circulators, a setup that costs thousands of dollars but is extremely precise.

At the enthusiast level, sous-vide can be done with a rice cooker, a PID controller, and a vacuum sealer. Setup cost ~$300.

At the low end, you can work with a thermometer and a pot. This approach is the easiest way to get started, but it's very limited. Sous-vide eggs, for example, need temperature accuracy within 2 degrees for 75 minutes, something that is too difficult to do manually. Sous-vide short ribs are great because you can cook them rare (impossible with conventional methods) but that means holding the ribs at about 135 degrees F... for ~40 hours. It's fun to try it out with salmon because you get a texture that is unique to the technique, but there's a lot more to play around with once you spring for the home setup.

Thomas Keller has a cookbook called Under Pressure that's good. It's aimed at professionals, but it's perfectly accessible for home cooks as well. There's a big section on food safety that's on the scary side. (I keep waiting for the first round of sous vide botulism deaths)

And there's a web site called chefsteps that puts out a lot of sous vide articles and video tutorials. Highly recommended.

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Don't take everything as fact but Thomas Keller's Under Pressure is pretty good.

Get the book Under Pressure. Literally a Bible full of info on the machines themselves and the technique. Also a huge wealth of recipes with cook times and temperatures for nearly everything you'd need.

Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (The Thomas Keller Library) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1579653510/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_voa8yb3VJXAHS

Under Pressure by Thomas Keller.

There's a great sous vide cook book called Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide that has a bunch of stuff at the back about cooking times and temperatures. The book is pretty expensive, but alot of those charts are available in the preview on amazon.

Thomas Keller - Under Pressure

If someone is really into sous-vide technique, these guys are amateurs compared with Thomas Keller.

https://www.amazon.com/Under-Pressure-Cooking-Thomas-Library/dp/1579653510

Worth the read if you're into this kind of thing.

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quanto arriverà (ancora senza data né titolo definitivo) il libro di Dave Arnold sulla carne rischia di essere anche quello imperdibile

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