Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Sous Vide Cooking

 Have you ever heard of Sous Vide Cooking?  I have heard of it but never had tasted it. 

According to Wikipedia, Sous Vide is the French for under vacuum.   Sous Vide Cooking is known as low temperature long time cooking which is a method of cooking in which the food is place in a plastic pour and cooked in a water bath for longer than usual cooking times at a precisely regulated temperature.

Recently, I have had the opportunity to review a Sous Vide device and over the past week-end, we have cooked not once but twice with it.

The pictures included in this post show you the second meal we have made which was a roast.

We have put the roast in a plastic bag and remove the air in the bag using a vacuum sealer machine.  You can also use a Ziploc bag and press carefully to remove all the air.


Afterward, we set up the Sous Vide cooking device on either a pot that can contain a large quantity of water or a Sous Vide container like this one below.


Our Sous Vide device is KitchenBoss G320 model.  This one is somewhat different than other models on the market as it allows the water to circulate in the container allowing the meat to be cook equally.  This model possess a color LCD allowing you to pick an already set mode or set your own mode like we did below.   We have set the temperature to 140F and the cooking time to 2 hours.


Once the water has reached the desired temperature, you simply have to put your bag in the water to cook it.

 

Once cooked, we can cook the meat to grill it - this usually take less time that you would do usually since you already cooked it sous vide style.  For the roast, we cooked it approximately for 15 minutes in the air fryer.  Look at this beautiful piece of meat!  


We really enjoyed both the meals we have done with the sous vide kitchen tool.   This has become my husband favorite item in the kitchen apart from the air fryer.

The meat was so tender it was almost unbelievable.  Everyone enjoyed their meal when we used it.  

Below are the items we use for sous vide cooking:

KitchenBoss Sous Vide G320

Automatic Vacuum to remove the air 

Rubbermaid 12 Quart Container

Philips Air Fryer XXL 

Two items that we would like to add eventually would be:

Cover for the Rubbermaid 12 Quart Container
 

The rack to hold items in the Rubbermaid Container

Have you ever eaten something cooked Sous Vide?   I would strongly recommend that you try it out.  It is definitively an item that will be part of our lives for years to come.   We look forward in discovering other type of meat to cook with this technique. 

Bon Appétit!

Friday, February 12, 2021

Doom Patrol: The Complete Second Season Blu-Ray

 

Doom Patrol - Complete Second Season
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

DC's misfit heroes are back to save the world once again with the release of the Complete Second Season in Blu-Ray format.

You will be able to watch all 9 episodes of the second season of the original DC series and enjoy the extra features which also includes two behind-the-scenes featurettes.

In this season, Doom Patrol find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff's toy race car track.   They are going to deal with their feelings of betrayal with Niles Caulder aka The Chief, while confronting their own personal baggage.   As each Super Hero faces the challenge of moving beyond trauma and failure, they must come together to protect the newest family member, Nile's daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world.

Special features:

  •  The Transformers: Doom Patrol's Make-up FX
  •  Doom Patrol - Come Visit Georgia PSA
This is perfect for the DC or Doom Patrol fan in your life.

This season of Doom Patrol is available in Blu-Ray or DVD at your favorite store, even on amazon.ca.

Disclaimer: Thanks to Falkowitz PR for sending me this book for review purposes.  I was not monetarily compensated for this review.  Please note that the review was not influenced by the Sponsor in any way.  All opinion expressed here are only my own.


Saturday, January 16, 2021

Snowpiercer - Complete First Season

 

Snowpiercer - The Complete First Season

Synopsis
Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train, with 1001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation based on the graphic novel series and film from Oscar® winner Bong Joon Ho (Parasite).

My Thoughts
I personally did not know about this show and reading the description of it I was curious.  What I also didn't know is that this television series is also based on a movie from a 2013 South Korean-Czech film and a French graphic novel from 1982 titled Le Transperceneige.

This post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television drama series premiered on TNT back in May 2020. It has since been renewed for a second season which will come out on January 25th, 2021.

The idea behind the series is interesting.  With so many dystopian based movies and series out there, this one has definitively a unique idea.   The Earth has become a frozen wasteland and the remnant of the population travels endlessly around the world in a moving train which is composed of over 1000 cars.   Can you imagine living in close quarters for days on end while the outside world is an hostile environment?  I suspect there will be clashes and battles that will arise for sure particularly when you know that there are classes set up and a social hierarchy is visible.  How will the limited resources be allocated within the train?   

Interestingly enough the series is set in the year 2021.  This is close to home this time for a dystopian story.   As I write this just so my future readers understand why I say this - the year 2021 has started 16 days ago and today in Ontario, Canada we are having the first snow fall of the year.  

The series investigates class struggle since the passengers are segregated by wealth, social injustice, warfare and the politics of survival.

If you enjoy post-apocaliptic dystopian kind of television series, you will enjoy Snowpiercer.

Disclaimer: Thanks to Falkowitz PR for sending me this book for review purposes.  I was not monetarily compensated for this review.  Please note that the review was not influenced by the Sponsor in any way.  All opinion expressed here are only my own.