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  1. 11 hours ago, rotuts said:

    @JoNorvelleWalker

     

    very interesting.

     

    did you season the meat destined for the SV before you bagged it ?

     

    which steak did you eat first ?   the PAG'd ?

     

    Im happy how beef turns out for me SV.

     

    but there were the Grill Days etc .

     

    If I could find very fresh fish , fairly priced

     

    Id be all over the PAG  for fish

     

    Scallops ?  ( pls remove the tendon if it there.  A Cat would love it )

     

    Salmon ?  closest to the Head , filet of steak ?

     

    I have a friend who has a place in Woods Hole MA

     

    a fish monger , Ive been there , very fresh fish, fairly pieced 

     

    Ill point out to him he should consider the PAG for that place.

     

    Ill have to motor down and visit.

     

    he likes Wine , I like Wine 

     

    seems like the right thing to consider.

     

    The sous vide steak was bagged with a bit of garlic powder and a few drops of liquid smoke.  Then salted for an hour while drying after removal from the bag.  The grilled steak was seasoned only with salt and then rested for an hour.

     

    I cooked and ate the grilled steak first, for what it's worth, speaking as a quondam protein chemist.

     

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  2. Just now, rotuts said:

    @JoNorvelleWalker

     

    thanks you for your analysis of those two steaks.

     

    you have pointed out something that a SV system cannot provide :

     

    Tantalizing Aromas that linger and affect us when we eat.

     

    The Roast Beef done in the Oven.  the Thanksgiving Turkey roasting for hours 

     

    the SV steak ' char '  didn't help the steak at all ?

     

    my thoughts are this :

     

    If KFC  can make a limited edition KFC Candle , that fills you kitchen and home w the

     

    #$R^#$)R%^@#^R#%^   scent of KFC   :    $%(Y$(%  Oil , etc all those fried herbs and spices   ...

     

    some one can make a Bazillion Units of currency perfecting a

     

    SV Candle   

     

    ALL I ask for this Outstanding Idea is :

     

    20 % for me ,  30 % for eG , and and the maker will get 50 % of a Bazillion Currency Units !

     

    the aroma of Fine Cooking really do matter.

     

    Ill leave the whole idea to anyone   ( 40 % to eG , please ) who does this w an aerosol .

     

    hand pump or compressed can 

     

    Thing is it was not just the aroma.  The sous vide steak did not taste like much at all.  I really don't understand the difference in results.

     

  3. To return to my "chuck filet" experiment, recall the package had two twin steaks.  The other day I simply grilled one steak ten minutes or so on the Philips:

     

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    Tonight I cooked one steak sous vide 56C for two hours and a half, then dried and seared in a pan with smoking oil:

     

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    Both steaks were consumed in their entirety.  As my be seen the sous vide seared steak had considerable crust.  However this steak dissociated at the muscle boundaries so it was not as pretty.

     

    What is most remarkable:  the grilled steak filled the whole apartment with the scent of steak.  The meat tasted like steak, in a good way I don't oft experience.  In contrast the sous vide steak didn't taste like of much of anything.

     

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  4. 4 hours ago, heidih said:

    "red fish, blue fish" - sorry ;)

     

    As @pastrygirl notes you want the skin up at serving if you enjoy it. Honestly with thin fish I broil with the rack lower down. Achieves the result I like- moist fish, crispy skin. if that is in your taste equation. 

     

     

     

    I work in a library.  Not sure I can forgive you...

    https://forums.egullet.org/topic/157787-dinner-2019/?do=findComment&comment=2192921

     

    Right now I'm finishing up the last of my white mai tai and a generous peanut course.  Then I'm off to grill the last bit of bluefish before it begins turning on its own.  I plan to start skin down (towards the heat) and flip after about five minutes.  I'm worried that if I start flesh side down the fillet might stick to the rack.  I plan to plate skin side down.  To do otherwise seems just wrong.

     

    Or I might start flesh side down and see what happens.  I can't decide but I am running out of peanuts.

     

     

  5. I live in an apartment with no pantry.  In this complex the next larger apartments have a dedicated pantry as a separate room.  But at least I have a good sized bedroom.

     

    If I were buying a house I'd look for a kitchen with a Pacojet.  Not that I can complain, my kitchen has a nice view of the mountain.  Not sure I'd trade that even for a Pacojet.

     

     

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  6. 4 hours ago, scamhi said:

    how many servings of that delicious plate of food did you consume?

     

    Thank you.  Two servings of broccolini, all of the steak as shown here:

     

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    Alas, there was but one potato.

     

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  7. Thanks, everyone.  I particularly had in mind bluefish but I wanted to know about grilling fish fillets in general.  I should think less oily types of fish would be more difficult to turn.

     

    I have another piece of the bluefish that I showed grilled skin side down in the dinner thread the other night:

     

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  8. I think I have come to the right place.  I am not very experienced grilling fish fillets.  I can find remarkably little information in my hundreds of books, in the library, or on the web.

     

    My question:  if started with the skin side toward the grill, should the fillet be turned to finish cooking with the skin side up?

     

     

  9. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish:

     

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    Coleslaw.  Very good, not much to say.

     

     

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    Roast potatoes.  Thank you Kenji, thank you Cuisinart, thank you DARTO.

     

     

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    Bluefish grilled on the Philips grill.  Perfect.

     

    As a constitutional, Whistlepig single barrel, barrel strength.  Not shown.

     

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  10. On ‎3‎/‎6‎/‎2019 at 7:37 AM, rotuts said:

    @JoNorvelleWalker

     

    thank you.  makes the decision much easier for me.

     

    are you able to get a fresh pice of Salmon ?   near the Head of the fish ( fat content much higher )

     

    perhaps you don't care for salmon ?    

     

    I take it it works at one temp :  full blast.

     

    I tried.  Prime Now had a sale.  By the time I got home from work the sale salmon was gone.  Besides, I like bluefish better:

     

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    Some of the best fish I have had.  No stick, no smoke, no mess.  Normally I would pass on fish skin.  I ate this all.  It was really very good.

     

    I used to grill fish on my Farberware,  which like the Philips doesn't smoke.  But with the Farberware the skin sticks to the rack and makes a mess.

     

    The Philips Avance has earned its keep.

     

     

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  11. 14 minutes ago, gfweb said:

    What’s the Friday feast?

     

    I suspect it is a reference to the potlucks from a certain novel by Daniel Defoe.

     

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