HOW TO COOK A STEAK SOUS VIDE RECIPES

Why cook sous vide? The results are obvious. Take these two tenderloin steaks, for example. They’ve both been cooked to 130ºF (medium-rare), but they look strikingly different. The steak on the left has been cooked using the Anova Precision Cooker and then quickly seared before serving. The steak on the right was seared on the stove-top and finished in a hot oven. The steak cooked sous vide has a few distinct advantages: First, it is medium rare almost completely from edge-to-edge. (There is a small, millimeter-thick browned edge that results from searing the steak to finish.) The steak cooked using the traditional method is medium-rare in the center, but has a thick, overcooked band around the edges. Second, the muscle fibers in the sous vide steak are smooth and still full of delicious, beefy juice. The steak on the right has contracted and lost some of its moisture. The grain is more fully defined and less tender. Third, if you're cooking a steak with a defined fat cap (like a ribeye or strip steak), you'll definitely want to choose the sous vide option — the fat on a sous vide steak is tender and flavorful, while the fat on a traditionally cooked steak is tough and gristly. Which would you rather eat?

Provided by Kate Itrich-Williams

Total Time 02 hours 00 minutes

Prep Time 010 minutes

Yield Ingredients for 1

Number Of Ingredients 3

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Sous vide is the ideal way to cook steak for perfectly even edge-to-edge cooking with foolproof results. Sous vide steaks can be finished in a pan or on the grill. Highly marbled cuts like a grain-finished Prime-grade ribeye and strip should be cooked a few degrees Fahrenheit higher than leaner steaks like tenderloin, since their copious intramuscular fat helps keep them moist while delivering plenty of flavor. I prefer ribeyes and strip steaks cooked medium-rare to medium, around 129°F / 54°C to 135°F / 57°C. Fattier steaks also have natural insulation which means they'll take slightly longer to reach the correct internal temperature.Timings are all given for steaks one-and-a-half to two inches thick. For steaks one inch or less, initial cooking time can be shortened to 40 minutes. Steaks cooked under 130°F / 54.4°C should not be cooked longer than two-and-a-half hours at a time for food safety reasons.Very Rare to Rare: 120°F / 49°C to 128°F / 53°C;1 to 2 1/2 hoursMedium-rare: 129°F / 54°C to 134°F / 57°C;1 to 4 hours*Medium: 135°F / 57°C to 144°F / 62°C;1 to 4 hoursMedium-well: 145°F / 63°C to 155°F / 68°C; 1 to 3 1/2 hoursWell done: 156°F / 69°C and up; 1 to 3 hours *2 1/2 hours max if under 130°F / 54°C

Provided by J. Kenji López-Alt

Total Time 01 hours 00 minutes

Prep Time 005 minutes

Yield Ingredients for 2

Number Of Ingredients 12

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