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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Sous Vide for the Everyday Cook: A Foolproof Approach to Temperature Precision, Clear Instructions, and Perfectly Cooked Results at Home

Sous Vide for the Everyday Cook: A Foolproof Approach to Temperature Precision, Clear Instructions, and Perfectly Cooked Results at Home

Parrawal, Donnter

Paperback

Cookbooks GeneralMeat & Seafood

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ISBN13: 9798191550640
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.28 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
The Water Bath That Never Overcooks

What if the chicken breast never went gray at the edges before the center caught up? This book holds every protein at one exact number until it is done, and not a degree past it, whether the timer stops at fifty minutes or ninety.

The tool is a plastic tub and a clip-on circulator, or a countertop water oven if you already own one, not a chef's education or a restaurant budget. The angle here is not theater; it is a working kitchen habit built for an ordinary Tuesday at six o'clock.

One Method, Every Weeknight Protein

The book moves chapter by chapter through beef and lamb, pork, poultry, fish and shellfish, eggs and dairy, vegetables, grains, desserts, and broths, so the same core skill compounds instead of resetting with each new dish.

By the fourth or fifth recipe, reading a bath temperature stops feeling like following instructions and starts feeling like something you already know instinctively, the way a confident cook reaches for salt.

A steak, a whole prime rib, a pork shoulder held twenty-four hours until it shreds, a barely-set poached egg, a stovetop-defeating salmon fillet: each recipe states its temperature and its minimum hold time side by side.

Every number is drawn from published USDA and FDA pasteurization research rather than habit, and fourteen chapters end with a run of complete weeknight plates built on techniques the earlier chapters already taught.

No Sealer, No Guesswork, No Gray Meat

  • No vacuum sealer required: the water displacement method with an ordinary zip-top freezer bag gets the same result for the cost of nothing.
  • Circulator or water oven: every one of the 130 recipes works identically with either setup, so the equipment already in your kitchen is the right equipment.
  • Safety built on real numbers: poultry and ground meat pair a temperature with a minimum hold time traced to published pasteurization research.
  • A full finishing chapter: searing, turning bag liquid into a pan sauce, and plating for a crowd are taught once so later chapters never repeat the basics.
  • Batch and make-ahead staples: bone broths, a demi-glace, caramelized onions, and garlic confit turn one weekend of cooking into faster dinners for weeks.

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