JoNorvelleWalker

Important in a pandemic.

As I said above, in my experience plastic bags are too thick. For me stretch-tite works much better.

Thanks. I rub my potatoes with grapeseed oil and bake two hours at 430F in a bed of salt.

Yes, but the Vesta gets colder in Celsius.

I'm remembering my beautiful candele. Marc Vetri's extruded pasta recipe says to dry pasta in the refrigerator eight hours to five days. Not having a blast chiller at the time I dried the candele at room temperature. They all cracked and fell to pieces. Edit: I wouldn't dry egg pasta, I'd just freeze it.

Sometimes necessary is necessary. They also say to cover liquids. In other news, I was able to get the display into Celsius by doing a factory reset of the firmware.

Vesta also has a 30 day return/exchange* -- shipping costs at their expense. *say, incase you need a bigger model.

So have I but Vesta doesn't. Thinking of my Vollrath mixing bowls.

Don't forget the blast freezer.

No, unfortunately, it is a little small, at least for mine. Vesta has updated their website information on the Frysta. There are more specifications and they now say "Does NOT include trays". However @rotuts has a CSO. My tray is in the mail and I will report on it when it comes. The specifications say the BF100 accommodates two GN1/2...unlike the CSO. Note that while Vesta has products for home use and for professional use; their blast freezers are listed under professional products, not home products.

A storage surface.

I'm using a CSO rack of course. Remarkably a quarter sheet pan barely fits, but I would think it would impede air circulation. Sadly the Vesta chamber is not tall enough to accommodate a nine inch deep hotel pan. Unless I turn the hotel pan on its side.

Stay tuned. Though so far I have used it for blast chilling soup, blast freezing soup, blast freezing fish, and storing milk. For soup the Vesta replaces the Ruhlman method.

Wish I had a self defrosting freezer. I live in an apartment. My ice box is old.

We have no spring but this present. You are getting a stimulus check, no? Last night I bagged up portions of red snapper fillet and blast froze them. Why would you expect the bags to suffer? Most of Vesta's line is sous vide gear. I expect they thought of this.

I have not tried them yet but I stocked up on three tins of Matiz clams (berberechos) from Spain.

I proportioned tonight's sale priced Whole Foods red snapper fillet. One part I reserved for dinner and two pieces I vacuum sealed and blast froze.

Philips grilled red snapper. Had not intended a photograph, but then I thought of @Duvel and was overcome with charity.

Dinner proceeds apace. I removed everything from the top shelf of the refrigerator. Everything. Found stuff. Few bottles of open wine. Chateau Margaux '66, not the best year perhaps but OK in a pandemic. Eventually I got almost everything back inside, including the Whole Foods milk and cream. That freed up space in the blast freezer for the coleslaw. Couple weeks ago as availabilities of food related goods were becoming dicey, I ordered a four pack of stretch-tite plastic wrap. "Currently unavailable." Sure glad I had it in the bedroom when the stretch-tite roll ran out tonight.

Piggly Wiggly invented one-way traffic inside its store in 1916.

Life goes on for another month (unless, of course, it doesn't). Meanwhile dinner is red snapper, coleslaw, and baked potato. If I can get up off my chair and make it happen.

@StumptownGeek have you started playing yet? There are a couple things I haven't figured out. My display is in Fahrenheit and I'd like to change it to Celsius, but the procedure in the manual does not work for me. Also pressing the start button doesn't seem to do anything besides turning on a little light (the one that looks like a snowflake). Pressing start is supposed to start chilling but the temperature never goes down. I have to press blast. And then the temperature goes down rather quickly.

My Amazon Prime Now/Whole Foods order arrived. My largest order to date. Pretty much everything I wanted except a leek. I even scored some red snapper on sale. However I may have over done it. Big bottles of cream were substituted for little bottles of cream. No room in the refrigerator. Once I gather my strength I will try to rearrange the contents. Hopefully without a shelf falling out this time. Meanwhile a bottle of milk and three bottles of heavy cream are residing in the blast freezer. Huge homeless cabbage sitting on the counter.

I even gave a like to the cauliflower 'cause it's pretty.

One amazon employee I know from elsewhere says the company is pushing them hard but she loves the extra dollars.