Go to the Recipe: Poutine au Poivre
This recipe looks great. The only problem is that it is not a recipe. Maybe this would be better in the Joule app....
I miss the chefsteps that used to teach us to make things instead of trying to sell us more stuff. Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of trying to sell us the premade sauce, they’d teach us how to make the Sauce au Poivre instead. You know, like this site used to do. Or is it weird to expect to get something for what we paid them to do when we bought a premium membership.
I completely agree with Michael Campbell. More and more I am turning to Anova's site for recipes because they push the recipes rather than products..
Re: Michael Campbell. I get your point. But looking up the recipe was a simple matter of a browser search, and once I did that, I quickly decided that I'd buy the sauce rather than try to make a somewhat complicated recipe with several ingredients I don't usually keep on hand. I'm happy for the alternative.
@Michael Campbell - Agree 100%. I'm a competent cook. I paid for premium membership for innovative recipes and new techniques. If ChefSteps wants to /needs to sell pre-packaged stuff for the less motivated, well then, fine. Everybody's gotta make a buck - I get it. But, at least, give the premium membership folks who ACTUALLY LIKE to cook from scratch the recipe for the ChefSteps spin on the product. Too much to ask?
It’s not that I don’t appreciate the quickness of a premade sauce for the days I have little time, more that I used to love how chefsteps integrated a full recipe of proteins and sauces.
I know I can search separately for how to make a sauce online, but I guess I just miss the great full recipes this site used to do. In a perfect world they’d post how to make the sauce from scratch along with the link to buy the premade. Who knows, Chefsteps may even sell more of their premade sauces once people try this recipe and make it themselves from scratch only to know that a premade sauce would be handy for those days we don’t have enough time to make one from scratch.
I'm really disappointed that ChefSteps are now pushing their premade sauce packages instead of handing out an equivalent recipe. It's even more infuriating as a premium member! At least give us the option between A) preparing the sauce ourselves or B)using the prepackaged version for the lazy people.
I receive the emails, but cannot even buy the sauce (any sauce, btw or the flip top): "Sorry! Sauce au Poivre is currently unavailable in your location. You can use the menu to select a supported country, or sign up to be notified when Sauce au Poivre is available to ship to your location." Location: Poutine Homeland.
I also find them TO EXPENSIVE to buy. Pure shame because I know I’d enjoy them.
I think they are a reasonable deal, in that these are designed to compete with other alternatives like Blue Apron for busy people who want to cook a quick and tasty meal for their family. You are paying for convenience and quality ingredients.
For the "New School Teriyaki" sauce that I prepared with pork loin and the recommended sides of rice and broccoli, I calculated it worked out to $5 a serving. Of course that was assuming I cooked only two servings. I've often put more than 2 servings in a bag and there usually seems to be enough sauce for 4 servings in most of the bags, assuming you can fit that much meat in the bag (however, a couple of sauces seem to work best with more sauce per serving). I've even put as many as 7 boneless, skinless chicken thighs in the Vadouvan Curry bag, although that carries with it the caveat that these sauces are designed to be diluted by the meat juices and 7 thighs resulted in a thinner sauce (although I could have thickened it afterwards). So the cost per serving can be substantially better than it initially appears.
The simple recommended sides in the app are good matches for the sauces. They are obviously much more basic than the typical CS online recipes, but even I have learned a few new tricks from them.
More importantly, these sauces taste WAY BETTER than anything you are buying in a can or bottle at the grocery store. If I served one to you blind, you would never believe that I hadn't made it from scratch. Just imagine how much time and ingredients making some of these sauces would take if you had to do it yourself?
When you consider all that, I have zero problem with the current prices of these sauces. I've made about 7-10 different ones and have been very happy with them all.
I’m a Premium member and a big fan of the packaged sauces. Keep it up Chefsteps! They’re of excellent quality, very reasonably priced, and super convenient especially for preparing meals for two or three people. People seem to want something for nothing. It’s a business. If you want to make your own sauce, look it up, go buy all the ingredients, and have at it.
@TomC This comment would have been useful in the recipes using the sauces that folks were whining about that ChefSteps eventually pulled.
WTF? Are they still available somewhere?
People are such weenies.
@BostonBestEats Yeah, they're in the sitemap. That has just about all of the recipes they've posted, even if they've since been taken down.
'recipe'
-make fries
-add steak
-reheat sauce
done
I have been a Premium subscriber since the very beginning. I loved how Chef Steps would geek out on a given recipe, teach you tricks, and make you feel enthusiastic about making a recipe from scratch, and succeeding every time. I'm a fairly accomplished home cook, but I daresay ChefSteps made me an even better one. I have certainly spread the word among my friends over the years, and now I pretty much don't know anyone WITHOUT a SousVide setup.
I am disappointed at the commercial detour ChefSteps has taken : sell Joule!, sell bags!, sell SAUCES!, sell your soul.
I understand that this is business and a livelihood for the people at ChefSteps; everyone needs to make a living. But I came to this site for recipes, and in some sense a feeling of camaraderie with other cooks. PLEASE Chefsteps, continue to provide RECIPES for the food you showcase on your site, not links to buy your sauces. Or, do provide those links, as I am sure the sauces are great (alas not available to Canadians like me), but also full instructions how to prepare them.
Who knows, more people may opt for the ready made, but at least they would have a choice.
I'm late to the party, but could not agree more. I think the pre-made high quality sauces (I assume, can't get them over here!) are a very nice option for when you want a proper sauce but don't want to/have time to cook it yourself, but it would be better still if the recipe (or another, non-commercialized/not top secret recipe) would be accessible for people to learn from as well, even behind the premium membership.
Á la old Chefsteps, with coherent menus, dadjoke-grade food puns, science-y approaches and everything in metric units. Come back, Chefsteps!
Do you expect for them to keep providing these technologically advanced recipes and techniques and not grow?If you bought The Joule, what's the difference? This is a business, and quality products and sauces are hard to find. If you want to make the sauces just look up the recipes.
Not to point out a few inconsistencies of the company and comment, but:
2. “Look it up”...again, isn’t that what we paid for originally? So I could look up recipes through this site and make it from scratch?
I’m not looking for something for nothing. I’m looking to get what I paid for already. A site that provides recipes and techniques to make things from scratch.
And then of course we are now being told to subscribe yearly with this new “Studio Pass”. So let’s pay up again!? Bait and switch!?
Bummer I bought into the company ethos and got friends and family members to buy their products and services. No more.
