bierz said:
I used to brew but haven't for at least two years. My homebrew buddy moved to STL and I gave him the gear. I have a bunch of friends that own breweries so I have my fun that way. If you want beer photos, I certainly have some and can take more pretty frequently. I think we need to chat about sous vide, though.
I haven't been doing as much food-wise w/ it ..
I got into it early, and used the hell out of it - mostly as a way to have a nice long readiness window for eating ... because I used to get stuck at work, often for hours, all the time ...
Now I work remotely, and I've been using BBQ more of the time for meats, but I use the sous vide machines to revive my BBQ and I still leverage vac sealing more often than most, I'm thinking ...
I never really explored it all that fully - I didn't do much w/ eggs, or make components for desserts, or custards or anything ...
We used it primarily for chicken, for dieting, but also for steak ... and I've done hamburgers in there of course ...
More recently I added a Sansaire to the fleet, so that opens up some new opportunities that weren't there before ... bigger cuts, specifically ...
Mostly though, I'm using that gear for brewing ...
I've got an email out to a guy doing biere de garde by sous vide, and am amid correspondence w/ Douglas Baldwin about the pastuerization requirements for botulism for wort for a little project I'm working on ...
I dunno ... that's about it. I didn't really do as much of the flashy sous vide, I mostly used it as a way to still get to eat decent meat with a variable dinner time, LOL ...
Doing anything interesting w/ yours?