Recipe: Sous Vide Meatloaf

Meatloaf’s biggest weakness is an inconsistent oven. We’ve all had the distressing, if not outright depressing, weeknight meal of dry meatloaf. Fortunately, sous vide is here to save the day with precise temperature control. Here, the only downside is that you need to shape the loaf carefully before vacuum sealing as we won’t be using a traditional loaf tray.

With that said, here at Sous Vide Guy we very much prefer the sous vide method – to no one’s surprise. Part of this is not only because of the more consistent cooking process, but also thanks to the quick-and-easy glazing process at the end.

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Recipe: Sous Vide Bread and Butter Pickles

Sous vide pickles are a perfect hybrid of traditional canning practices and modern technology. The highly customizable nature of pickles – bread and butter or otherwise – means that you can easily tune this recipe to your personal tastes. For instance, pretty much any type of onion will work depending on your palate and the same can be said for the vegetables. If you’re not a fan of jalapenos then many other peppers will work great – although we do draw the line (personally) at Ghost peppers and Bird’s eye chillis.

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Recipe: Sous Vide Beef Stew

Beef stew has always benefited from low and slow cooking. Sous vide makes for tender chunks of beef in a rich sauce for both weeknights and weekends.

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Recipe: Sous Vide Pot Roast

Roasts are a classic weekend to weekday meal – great on the day of and even better during the week for easy, thermos-ready lunches. Sous vide takes longer than a typical roast, but can be set up easily and left, mostly, unattended during the cook.

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