Re: 🎶 Get in That Kitchen and Rattle Those Pot and Pans 🎶 2/19/2025

Ed P wrote:

On 2/23/2025 8:59 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:

On 2/19/2025 7:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

A sous vide leg sounds interesting.  We tend to have a hard time
getting then right. They are often either over cooked or under
cooked.  If it is under cooked we work on the outer pieces that
are more done  and than use the under cooked part to make curry
and figure it will be  cooked through in the braising liquid. If
it is overcooked  we keep  the outside stuff and aim for the less
cooked inside meat. The over  cooked stuff will be tenderized
with the low and slow braising.  It  would be nice to get it
right the first time.

 
 
Just for grins I looked up sous vide circulators and found this
list of  ones reviewed by Food & Wine:
 
https://www.foodandwine.com/best-sous-vide-7099375
 
Apparently these devices not only circulate the water but also
maintain  a very specific temperature so things are not over or
under cooked.
 
Jill

 
The process looks interesting, I'd not use it enough to have another
gadget hanging around.  I'm trying to get rid of what I don't use.

It's a perfect case for things like 'Freecycle' where you can try
before you buy then re-freecycle it if it doesn't suit or you want a
different model but snagged something free that was close enough to try
it out.

I've done that several times.  Like my first vacuum sealer.  I got a
free one to try it out.  The person offering it was honest and said it
really needs 3 hands but you can get the feel of how it works then buy
one later that isn't so awkward if it appeals.  True, and we sent it on
with the same reason as we got a new one.

I saw it roll through 4 houses when the 5th one evidently found it
workable for their needs and still has it.

BTW, Freecycle was interesting.  A fellow named Deron Beale claimed to
own the term but he lost the court case over it.  He set up a shadow
organization under his own freecycle.org (still spluttering along last
I checked).  It's entirely unmonitored and frequently has things that
are illegal or rediculous like asking for a free house.  The honest
ones were YahooGroups.  When Yahoo killed the yahoogroups (shooting
themselves in the foot), most of them moved to TrashNothing or
Groups.io.

I like togive a second life try on things I no longer need.