Steam Oven?
Steam Oven?
I have a new Miele steam oven and you can “sous vide” with it. I quote that because you surround the bag/food with steam rather than a bath of liquid water. Not sure if that matters? It seems to work ok, but twice the meat came out under what I wanted, although I’m still learning and making progress with each try.
Who else uses a steam oven and what advice can you share?
I use the anova precision oven for sous vide. I think its great as I can do an express where I have a slightly higher temperature then drop it to the regular sous vide temperature. I use it almost weekly for chicken breast. I don't use bags but usually that's for shorter cooks. It doesn't feel as wet as traditional sous vide with an immersion circulator feels but it works for me because when I batch cook chicken breast usually I'm too lazy to sear it. A tip for it is basically always using a thermometer probe for shorter cooks. I am trying a 24 hour cook this week and do have my beef in a bag because it does dry out a bit or so I've read. I recently got a chamber vac so I may be doing more longer cooks in it. Excited to see how it does for longer cooks and how it holds up but so far I'm loving it. I do also appreciate the precision more for reverse searing steaks also because it can help to dry out the outside and I feel like I get a better crust when using the thermometer probe it comes with, lower steam levels and higher temperature but that starts to get away from sous vide.