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Lower fat sous vide

Carols_469521

Most of the recipes use oil in the prep, the cooking and the finishing. I am trying to reduce the amount of fat I eat . Can I use other liquids in the cooking bag such as stock? Sweet Thai chili sauce? Wine? Bbq sauce?

I just purchased a Joule.

Thanks,

Carol

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brian_martin2001

You could always just not add the fats

fisher23

Sure, as @brain said, just leave it out, it will still work, or you can add whatever you want to the bag. Your sear won't be as good, just use a little cooking spray so it doesn't stick to the pan and you will be fine.

tshewman

You can (I sometimes use sauces), however, if for fat reasons alone don't est the fat from the bag, simple. Weigh before and after the cook and you will likely see you have more liquid. One if it's main functions is to transfer heat. Many times not done,with eating it in mind.

nico.beemster

Sooo.. You want to reduce the amount of fat you eat, but suggest substituting it with fat and salty stuff (stock), sauces with very high sugar contents (chili sauce, bbq sauce) or alcohol.. Makes perfect sense to me! /sarcasm

Anyway, most of the time I don't package my proteins or veggies with oil/ butter or whatever. And if you finish, say a steak, in oil, you don't eat that oil. You just use the oil to efficiently transfer the heat of the skillet to the meat.

If you insist you can pat your meat dry after searing it to further reduce the amount of fat.

Cheers!

johG_241326

When vacuuming the meat (or whatever) you wouldn't have to use a lot of oil/fat. So you could simply replace the olive oil with pure nut oil or any other less unhealthy oils. On the other hand; a teaspoon of olive oil isn't that unhealthy.

Jeremy_131558

I cooked low temp without any fat added for the first year before I found ChefSteps. still delicious

seijoed

Saturated fats have been pretty much proven to not be bad for you; http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/438600/Eating-fat-is-good-for-you-Doctors-change-their-minds-after-40-years

Monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats will be heck of a lot better for you than BBQ sauce which will be a lot of sugars, wine is sugars, spice up your olive oil and dip that good bread in it while you use less of the ready made sauces.