Beer Cooler Sous Vide is a great hack I learned about from Kenji Lopez-Alt of SeriousEats.com . You can cook meat Sous Vide with just a beer cooler and a thermometer. No need for expensive immersion circulators, just watch our Beer Cooler Sous Video video and enjoy meat that tastes amazing. Sous Vide is a cooking method that brings the meat up to a set temperature and holds it there, you don’t overcook the meat, and you pick the doneness. neat.
Have you cooked food Sous Vide? please tell us below:
Tim Lewallen
June 4, 2010
It would not take much to add a water pump, pot of water and hot plate to keep the temperature constant without having to manually add water.
What else can be cooked this way?
admin
June 4, 2010
i’m pretty sure there are some gadgets you can get from a laboratory supply place that would maintain temp.
admin
June 4, 2010
check Seattle Food Geek for an excellent DIY immersion heater. it looks amazing.
Katja
June 6, 2010
Hi Eric,
Nice demonstration but a serious word of warning, please be VERY careful with chicken or other poultry.
I tried sous vide duck breast cooked at 149 F in a professional cooking demo recently.
It was really good, very pink but I had my doubts about safety.
I’m sorry to say those doubts were justified the next day…
steven joe
June 10, 2010
I’m trying this right now. I too burn myself easily lol so I am filling my sink with cold water to close my bags with. Worked great and no burns!
Monica
June 11, 2010
Great show Eric.
Katja, check out the audio show where Eric, Mike, and I talk about food safety and sou vide cooking.
Monica
michelle
June 16, 2010
I get the biggest kick out of you two- so inspiring- thank you So I wanna ask do you think this process makes the less expensive meats tender when cooked this way? Can’t wait to show my husband and try it.
Tim
June 16, 2010
Here is something I picked up to try this – http://www.ziploc.com/Products/Pages/VacuumFreezerSystem.aspx?SizeName=Starter%20Kit
I hope to give it a shot this weekend.
Eric Gunnar Rochow
August 2, 2010
a comment from YouTube:
” I’m happy to see that you are not above the pleasures of a cheap beer. ”
what’s not to like about PBR?
Fransisca Inniss
October 27, 2010
You will probably find that it’s not accurate enough and is adjusted over too high a temperature range. Cooking takes place over a range of 100-250F and a degree of inaccuracy of + or – 10F is not critical. Cooking thermometers will reflect this.
Joe Ledington
June 28, 2011
Has any one ever tried using a crock pot to do this. I think I will give a go my old slow cooker holds water at 147 on low and 169 on high, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. I’ll let you know how things turn out.