While waiting for my Joule to arrive...

I came across an ad for Crowd Cow (www.crowdcow.com), and couldn't resist in trying them out, and I now have my freezer fully stocked awaiting to be cooked as soon as my Joule arrives :-).

Does anyone have any experience with their product? Also - in their literature, they recommend not thawing out the meat before cooking. Would this also work for sous vide? If so, that would be highly convenient since each steak and burger is already vacuum sealed ready for sous vide.

thx!

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Brandon_Byrd_40557

Sous vide is great for cooking frozen meat. The Joule app includes timing for frozen items for many recipes. And, counter to my intuitions, cooking meat directly from frozen actually results in less dip loss than if you thawed it first.

fisher23

+1 with Brandon. In fact I now buy it when it is on sale, sear, sous vide, ice cool, freeze and then retherm from frozen whenever I need some.

tangma27

Really? I can't tell if you're serious or not hahahahaha

Jeremy_131558

Genius idea that company had. I approve. Let us know how rad it is!

Brandon_Byrd_40557

Seriously. @Chris_Young_80640 put it this way: "In general, it's best to cook sous vide straight from frozen. We've tested this and the meat loses less juice than if you thawed and then cooked it." Apparently this is a well-known phenomenon in the industrial meat processing world, as Chris discovered when reviewing the relevant research for Modernist Cuisine.

tangma27

Oh I thought by "dip loss" you meant temperature of the water bath. Ok I get it now haha

Brandon_Byrd_40557

I got all excited about buying a share and then realized that they don't ship to where I live. Sadface.

Dan_109574

I finally had the opportunity to cook the mock tender steaks [correction: these were mock tender steaks - not chuck steaks] that came with my order (braised in pinot noir and mirepoix). It was very good! Not sure if my palate is sophisticated enough to know whether the dry aging made a difference, but I'm now eager to try the NY steak (I'm going to set those aside until I have the Joule in my hands)....

Jeremy_131558

I've never braised an aged steak and I have no idea what I'm talking about but I feel like that cooking method might detract from the work that aging does. Again, I am just hypothesizing and have no science.

Glad to hear it worked out!

Dan_109574

Good point -- the package I ordered came with mock tender steaks, and since I've never cooked these before, it looked up some recipes online. Most recommend braising as cooking technique, but you're right: the sauce does cover up the flavor somewhat. I have one more of those cuts -- maybe I'll try pan frying it to see if it works better.

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