Sous Vide Without A Bag?!?!

[Panhead John]

I’ve never sous vide before and probably never will…..but, this sounds crazy!

https://youtube.com/shorts/qivdScHo_bg?si=Xa5Ik5zDfg-bf1OD

[fzxdoc]

Uh, and how do you clean the parts of the sous vide unit afterwards? Sous vide soapy dishwater, perhaps? No thanks.
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What's the advantage of this method? You'd think that you'd have a tasty meat broth and less tasty meat at the end of this adventure.

I agree with you, Panhead John . Sounds crazy.

Kathryn

[STEbbq]

I hate everything about this one. Dirty sous vide water and my beautiful Joule! The salt and rub application technique! No Morton Kosher salt! The flame on that searing unit also seemed way too much!

So wrong on so many levels.

[MBMorgan]

Should call it "SOUP Vide" ...

[Smoker_Boy]

OK, dumb question:
Why do y'all keep talking about "dirty sous vide water".

Where are you getting your water from - the creek behind the house?

[Jerod Broussard]

Tap, but after a few rounds and the passage of time, things can get a little murky.

[jerrybell]

Smoker_Boy I think the dirty water comments relate to the meat juices getting into the sous vide water. Not great to circulate that through the hard to clean parts of the circulator.

[acorgihouse]

This is not sous vide, this is fancified boiling. The end.

[Panhead John]

I’ll bet ribs would be great that way!……🐂💩

[au4stree]

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. 🤦♂️

[Histrix]

The upside is not having to toss yet another single use plastic bag into the landfill. Also, no worries about the leaching of any chemicals from the plastic bag into your meat/jus.

The downside is the cleaning issue of the immersion circulator, however, as he is not seasoning prior to immersion I'm guessing that cleanup might be no more difficult than cleaning a stick blender - a couple drops of Dawn in a few inches of water and let 'er rip.

Anyway, kudos to the fellow for giving that a go. I wonder how many folks would be able to discern any difference between a bagged and bagless sous vide steak he served them.

[Troutman]

This reminds me of the old Meathead quote, If you get caught boiling your ribs, the enemy has won…

[Oak Smoke]

Good grief don’t mess up your sous vide set up like that! If you want a steak that’s sort of cooked like that read up on confit. It’s really good if done right.

[jecucolo]

I appreciate not wasting another plastic ziplock bag but I just wouldn’t do a sous vide neked. I think I would just reverse sear in the kettle.

[bmillin]

Well that looks disgusting, not only is your sous vide device fouled your container is as well.

[CaptainMike]

As 'Ol Dan Johnston used to say: Soo vee-do-vee-do....