Sous Vide has its uses for large cuts of meat (ribs and brisket) or stuff like chicken parts and beef steaks, but the whole craze of sous vide for every piece of food you cook was ridiculous, yeah. If you want to keep the maximum amount of moisture in a piece of meat and be able to sear/glaze it however you please after cooking it fully, it's great.
As per usual, these gadget crazes will take a piece of equipment that has high utility in certain applications (air fryers, electric pressure cookers, sous vide, etc.), and they try to make it into a device that can do literally everything in the kitchen to try and upsell it.
Shame we could never cook large pieces of meat before the sous vide was invented. We could have fed all those starving people.
So if John Smith were to be taught how to connect with the same world that Pocahontas sees and lives in to the point where he is able to connect with the land and unlearn his capitalist brainwashing would he then be able to be considered a member of the tribe if the tribe accepts him?
Best practice is to just wait like 6 months into the craze and then pick one up from the thrift store to try out yourself if you still care. If you buy, say, a crock pot retail you're a sucker lol.
(Or better yet, ask around friends and family, especially if they've recently gotten a bunch of wedding gifts)
Sous vide rules, especially for a more pricey and thicc cut of meat. It's pretty hard to get a 2" tall filet mignon cooked to a perfect medium rare, but with the sous vide you just let it go and fuck around for a while and then sear it for like 1min each side. You can also get silicone bags so you're not always wasting plastic.
Tbf we have a sous vide and it cooks eggs and meat amaaaaaazingly.
When I was a freshman I bought an egg boiler that steams water for seven eggs at once
Instant pots, crock pots
(Not that either of those are terrible, but I feel like you could get a more efficient and more reliable product by buying a mid-upper range conventional pressure cooker, though it won't have a timer)
Sure, I just set it on my phone though, stuff cooks fast enough that it's over before I know it. Personal preference I guess
My Marxist analysis is that Marx would’ve loved to have an air fryer. Shit is fire
My Marxist analysis is that Engels would have bought an air fryer, then Marx would have borrowed it and conveniently forgotten to give it back.
Definitely but let’s please not do Marx x Engels fanfics about an air fryer
It's just a nice smallish oven. Mine was dirt cheap too. I mostly bake oven fries in it because I don't like the smell frying them in oil. My oven takes too long to heat up so it's a nice addition.
Also !food@hexbear.net
Oh god, there isn't a weird elitist cult around air fryers is there?
I just have one because dealing with a load of oil every time i want to deep fry something is a pain in the dick
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Not really, you use a tiny bit of oil and it tastes very close to deep fried
When i make chips for example, in the oven they come out tasting more like roasted potatoes, wheras in my air fryer they taste like actual chipsI misread convection as conventional
I am very tired
There's a weird elitist cult around everything these days. It gets so boring.
nah it's just an ironic meme that was going around twitter the other day, the replies were pretty funny but i can't find the thread anymore
oh but there totally is one though... I've definitely had people recommend air fryers apropos of nothing
Most people don't have a convection oven tho, lots more airflow makes a big difference in recreating the deep fried texture (vs normal jpeg artifacting lol)
I'm a Marxist. I have analysed the chicken skin and its dialectical relationship with greater systems outside of it. In the instantpot-chicken skin dialectic, the synthesis is soggy and requires broiling which is easy to fuck up. In the oven-chicken skin dialectic, the contradictions are slow to heighten and the synthesis is very inconsistent. In the air fryer-chicken skin dialectic, eh pretty good.
Marxism-Smokerism is the true path of scientific socialism though. You really do consider all factors, provide for the needs of all chicken components, and create a more ecologically holistic chicken in the end. From skin to meat it's all perfectly cooked.
I smoked a chicken. Did a nice glaze.
It looked amazing but I really needed to get the breasts a bit warmer (didn't like the texture, they did hit 165 though) and I needed to blast the skin with high because it was chewy instead of crispy.
Isn't it because "air frying" is healthier than, like, normal frying? Uses less oil. I only know how to fry in a pan, or heat in a microwave. Ovens are just for pizza.
An "air fryer" doesn't even fry in the typical sense of that word. It's basically a small, super efficient, convection oven. It's just circulates the heated air really fast. They are nice if you want to cook something small but not waste as much time and energy that a normal oven requires.
I was gifted an air fryer last year. Haven’t used it. Should I? Is there anything worth making with it?
When i'm lazy I've been using it for frozen foods I bought at the supermarket, tendies, schnitzels, empanadas all cook great in it and there's barely any cleanup
They are nice for anything small you would like cooked faster than a conventional oven would, but wouldn't want to microwave, in order to keep that baked outer crispiness like french fries, corn dogs, etc. All they do is circulate super heated air through and around the food. It's basically a more efficient convection oven. They are also great if you have some fries from a restaurant that have gone soggy. Toss them in for a few minutes and they will be crispy again.
I use my air fryer to heat up those microwave corndogs you can get from the grocery store because I think they taste better that way
got one as a gift this holiday season, it makes the best crispy treats out of frozen stuff. really liking it so far
Agreed, we got the instapot one for a wedding gift a few years ago. It cooks such a small amount and just
burnscooks one side.Yeah they are, we thought we would save space with the air frying attachment lid thing. Now it just sits in the way back of a cabinet.
Is this from that guy last week who said "wings aren't so hard how does that restaurant exist even" and then wrote basically a manifesto in the comments on all the equipment you need to make them? lol
sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me
lol j/k I do use a toaster oven from time to time
Damn that's disappointing. Always imagined it was some futuristic gadget that fried small batches of things by vaporizing hot oil.
You forgot to say patent pending, so I'm legally allowed to steal that idea
It occurred to me that something which shoots hot vaporized oil-air mixture may be a massive fire hazard, but if you can make it work you'll be doing humanity a service.
Can you make toast in it? Would be an adequate replacement for a toaster oven?
This is the one I have (got it from someone). Nothing too special really, works pretty well. Here's a list of similar ones. Really just find the cheapest thing that does everything you want, mainly taking size into account.
This one is relatively cheap and does it all, but it looks kinda small.
Although I do find myself wishing it had a digital timer instead of a knob, but it's not too big a deal.
Edit: Damn, this one looks nice if you are willing to spend more.
I wish I had an air fryer because boiling oil scares tf out of me.
Honestly not very expensive. You can get a 'nice' one for $70. You can get a perfectly functional one on sale for like $40 new.
Yeah the main bougie aspect isn't so much the money itself, but what you're spending it on (a new specialized kitchen appliance when you have a perfectly good stove/oven already)
kinda freaky i was thinking about this meme like 30 mins before you posted this :illuminati:
like i have got one and they are pretty nice i lived in a apartment with awful ventilation so doing stuff in oil would just make everything feel greasy and it just really helped on that like it is convenient like not something i would be unable to live without but improves my quality of life somewhat also it is good for fries
