combination sous vide and smoker
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combination sous vide and smoker
Hello to all:
I tried a new approach to smoking a turkey breast that I thought I would share with you. I bought a bone in, skin on, half turkey breast from Walmart for $ 10.00 First I deboned the breast , left the skin on. I wet cured/brined the turley breast for three days. Then I vacuum sealed it cooked it in my sous vide cooker for 3.5 hours at 150 degrees F. After that I chilled it down in an ice bath and air dried it for a couple of hours. Then out to the cold smoker set at 155 degrees for four hours. The result was incredible. Very moist and juicy. I thinly slice it, put the slices on a cracker with some cranberry sauce and served a platter to some Christmas Eve guests. The whole thing disappeared in minutes.
Happy Holidays to you all !!
Bert,
I tried a new approach to smoking a turkey breast that I thought I would share with you. I bought a bone in, skin on, half turkey breast from Walmart for $ 10.00 First I deboned the breast , left the skin on. I wet cured/brined the turley breast for three days. Then I vacuum sealed it cooked it in my sous vide cooker for 3.5 hours at 150 degrees F. After that I chilled it down in an ice bath and air dried it for a couple of hours. Then out to the cold smoker set at 155 degrees for four hours. The result was incredible. Very moist and juicy. I thinly slice it, put the slices on a cracker with some cranberry sauce and served a platter to some Christmas Eve guests. The whole thing disappeared in minutes.
Happy Holidays to you all !!
Bert,
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Cooking using the Sous vide method is a technique rather than a specific piece of equipment. The big commercial restaurants all use this method of food preparation. For the home cook there are a couple of products out there such as Sous Vide Supreme and Polysience immersion circulator, that can do the same job at a much reduced price. For the DIY selfer with a little technical skill you can build you own for less than $ 100.00. The key is a very accurate temperature controller. You need one that will controll the temperature to within one degree. I built one and it is accurate to within .1 degree. I use it in my smoke house as well and it is incredible. You also have to have a vessel to hold you food while it is cooking. I use a turkey roaster that I bought for $ 20 bucks. I plug it into the temperature controller that I built. If anyone want the details of how I di it. I would be happy to share it with them.
Bert,
Bert,
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Hi Fellas: I will be happy to share with you what I have put together with the sous vide as well as the temperature controller. I am helping the wife over the next couple of days with some cooking. We are having a cocktail party on Dec. 30th, so I will look at putting some information together after that. I am firing up the smoker tomorrow to cook up some Indian candy salmon, smoked chicken breast, venison kielbossa, and some chicken sausage with feta and spinach.
Talk soon,
Bert,
Talk soon,
Bert,