Sous vide vs Reverse sear ?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2023
- What's your favourite way to cook a steak?
- Sous vide - Water bath set to 54°C/129°F, steak in for 2 hours, then sear.
- Reverse sear - Oven at 120°C/250°F. Cook the steak to an intern temp 46°C/115°F - Rest and sear
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ANDY! You should really try using roasted garlic in the bag. A problem many people experimenting with sous vide encounter is that garlic tastes a bit funny och sharp. The temperature you normally sous vide your steak in is nowhere near what you need to cook and develop the flavors of garlic. It usually just ends up warm.
Test it out and you’ll see the difference 😊. Thank you for a great YT channel. Simon of Sweden
Note taken. Good idea.
I would love to find out how to roast garlic,
@@Kara-kx1lbjust dice up some garlic and fry it real quick in hot oil for like 3-4 minutes then remove the garlic from the oil and then put the roasted garlic into the bag. Or make garlic kalufe or sme (idk how to spell it) but basicslly u get 1 cup of oil & 8-10 peeled garlic & place both in a oven safe cup or dish @ like 375* F for like 20-25 min & repeat the process of removing garlic & putting it into the steak bag for sous vide
@@BV4551Pl thank you very much. I'll try this.
Garlic creates a risk for botulism I have heard.
So sous vide gets rosemary, garlic and beef tallow, but the reverse sear doesn't get anything extra. How can you really compare the taste? For a fair comparison I think the reverse sear would need to at least be basted with butter, garlic and rosemary.
exactly
@@keras_ He's not complaining hes literally saying it how it is.
@@keras_ it's feedback, chill lmfao 😂
@@keras_If you're just going to say something braindead then just don't say anything at all
Agreed
Definitely recommend putting the sous vide steak in the fridge for about 15-30 minutes after lightly patting it dry. It drys out the surface for a great sear and it prevents the inside from cooking during the sear. Don’t worry, the meat won’t be cold after searing!
@ashhong what a great idea about placing roasting fridge . I’ve been sous vide for years and this is a keep idea! I’ve got a prime rib roast for Christmas dinner and I’m doing this! Thanks!!
@@ginglyjoe2659 hell yeah how did it go?
@@newmo81 oh man…what a success. Obviously starting out with such a superior primal cut was almost a no brainer but, after a 20 minute sear centre of the roast was room temp! Absolutely the way to go. This method is locked in. I’m so glad for you tube lol
the sear is so quick it would not effect the end result of cooking if you know what your doing & putting it in th fridge makes no sense at all for this chefs point of view.
I find this hard to believe since I took my steak out of the sous vide bag straight onto a rack, pat it dry with paper towels, immediately took it to my patio to sear with a flamethrower which did the job in a whopping 20 seconds per side, then brought it back in, sliced it up and plated it and the damn thing was ice cold. If I stopped the process to put it in the fridge for 15-30 minutes then it would truly be cold steak.
Ever since I purchased my Sous Vide I find it hard ordering steaks in restaurants because I feel like mine are better.
They aren't
@@nickchivers9029you literally cannot screw up steak with sous vide, it comes up at desired doneness every time. If you buy high quality steak, you can make it as good as almost any restaurant. I say almost, because ofc there are, really expensive steakhouses that focus on small details that can make a difference. But if we are talking just the steak itself, you absolutely can make restaurant quality steak at home with sous vide.
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Additional challenge, do the reverse sear in a smoker. Yes it changes the challenge entirely but it's also the best way to have your beef. Trust me, take a nearly froze steak (from chilled to freezer for 20-40 minutes) put it in the smoker at 225 F until internal is 80 F. Let rest on baking sheet while smoker comes up to 450 F. Steak should be around 85-90 F after the rest, place back on the smoker for about 4-6 minutes, flipping half way or around 110F. This will happen very VERY quickly. Try it out, I recommend mesquite for the wood.
Recovering FOH Manager here... Your kitchen is off the charts. It looks incredible. I would be showing that show kitchen off to the customers any chance I got. AWESOME!!!
Both. Both is good.
Andy - "Let me know what you think in the comments below"
Me - Eats phone.
Man, just invested in a smoker a few years ago. Then I learned reverse sear in my oven yields comparable results (minus smoke flavor). Now I'm learning sous vide produces amazing result...
I don't know what to believe anymore. It seems that cooking by temperature probe is superior to any timed recipe, but there are some cold, rainy/snowy days when I don't feel like running out to the smoker to monitor my meats.
Damn you. For Christmas this year, I'm getting myself a sous vide cooker and vacuum sealer for those days that are just too cold/unpleasant to monitor my pellet smoker 😠
HOWEVER, I believe you need a warning with your "high heat" on pan searing. My gas range reaches 400+ degrees Fahrenheit under 1/4 low heat, as measured by an IR heat gun. Every time I tried to reverse sear a steak, I burned the butter and seasonings because high heat on my gas range is WELL beyond the smoke point of any cooking oil, let alone butter. My steaks were well below rare inside and burned on the outside when trying to baste on high heat.
would love to try them to decide🤤
The best thing about sous vide is you can prep the steak, vacuum seal it and then put the package in the deep freezer. Any time you want a good steak, pull out your frozen package and cook it in th sous vide as normal. This is a great way to store food. I do this with soups and other meats or foods.
I slightly prefer reverse sear because I think you end up with a deeper, and crispier sear
sous vide is absolutely foolproof and you can just forget about it, reverse sear has me standing in the kitchen for an hour before i eat my steak. also the aromatics you can add to sous vide are better imo. one tip i would give: salt season and vacuumpack the day before you put it in the waterbath, if you have a good scale add 1,5% of the weight of your steak in salt, that way it will penetrate the whole steak and it will retain more moisture during cooking.
doesn't salt draw the moisture out of the meat, though? I've never kept meat salted for so long...
I remember that they used salt to preserve the meat, to dry/cure it..
but now whdn I think again about your comment -> probably the amount makes the difference .. 1,5% is not a lot, really 🤔 if the steak was 500g then the salt would be 7-8g 🤔 but still... I'd think that juices would be released 🤔
have to try it at some point
thanks and have a great day 👍 💪
Have you done a blind taste test? I don't think the time would matter because of the pressure of the vacuum seal and time the sous vide. Usually you dry brine (or wet brine) for so long because under atmosphere pressure and refrigerator temps it takes a long time for salt and whatever else, to penetrate deeply. All those variables change when you sous vide
Can still completely F it up during searing.
@@Naraku1987that applies to both sous vide and reverse sear, though, but you’re right, not completely foolproof.
@@peteroz7332I THINK that if you give it enough time, the moisture the salt draws out then gets absorbed by meat. Basically dry brine
I like both. For taste definitely sous vide due to the ability to marinate before searing, but reverse sear is so much simpler, more cost effective in terms of equipment, and faster. Sous vide is great for meal prep though since you can go direct from freezer to water bath.
A while ago I bought some ribeyes from the butchers and cooked them sous vide and seared over charcoal, finished with a bit of butter and it was absolutely insanely good. It was like eating for the first time
Sous vide definitely wins because it’s cooking in all those seasonings and tallow. It seals in all those flavors
Before making a decision, I think I would need to taste each one as cooked by Andy. 😊
As a carnivore that only eats beef and lamb I’ve eaten a huge number of steaks. I mean a lot. I have the means and have tried just about every method you can think of to keep the food interesting. For me nothing beats a searing on a charcoal grill then finishing indirect.
I also find as long as you get the steak out the fridge a couple of hours first, reverse searing isn’t better than searing in the skillet first and finishing in the oven. Sous vide is tender, but I’m still not sold on it being better. I do use the sous vide cooking method but usually not for steak. When you eat 200+ steaks a year I’m a tiny bit concerned about cooking in plastic. If you don’t have a grill I recommend dry brining then cooking in a skillet and finishing with butter, just don’t over burn the butter. I used to season with garlic and pepper too but I’m not convinced that’s better either,particularly if it’s dry aged. But man they look like some high quality steaks, that’s the most important part, as long as you don’t overcook them that are going to be awesome.
Of course the one you soaked in wagyu tallow is better how is this a fair side by side lmfao
yeah not a true comparison
My thoughts exactly
Makes this video absolutely pointless
@@sadhappy8860 It's not pointless; it's rage bait to get you to comment. It worked on me too, but he can't make money on shorts, and I'm not dumb enough to watch any of his vids after some BS like this.
I love a reverse sear on the grill. That's where the technique really shines since you really get a smoky charcoal flavor.
You should try to make the experiment as controlled as possible. I think the only thing i would change is beaf tallow, it adds flavor like you said, we want to see how both methods taste and adding tallow to one will make a difference.
I've never seen this guy before and I've made sure I'll never see him again. He didn't even try to control variables. He made his "experiment" as unbalanced as possible. I hope he has far more dislikes than likes because this is ridiculous.
Somebody needs to give Andy his flowers already, man puts in serious work on his craft
Vacpacking for sous vide works really well trapping all the flavours and aroma's. I like to sous vide overnight take it out in the morning and pop the bag in the fridge to be ready and waiting when we return from work. Vacpacking raw meat for freezing protects the proteins from freezer burn and extends there storage life, allowing you to stock up when there are offers. I also vacpack stews as my vacuum sealer has a soft vacuum option for packing liquids.
I love using my Sous Vide stick at home.
The sous vide was rarer. Which instinctively would be my preference, maybe. One question, to what temperature did you bring each steak initially, how long did you let them cool/rest, were they both at room temperature before you flashed/seared them??
Sous vide for the win… I’m a fan of the reverse sear on a pellet grill… adds smoke to the overall… that would win the day for me! Love your content!
Andy, what kitchen are you in? Also, could the garlic & rosemary be combined with the tallow and applied to the meat like a rub for a few hours if using reverse sear?
For many people I’d probably go with the sous vide, but the ease of reverse sear wins it for me.
Sous vide - consistency and absolutely delicious.
I’m not a chef…so, maybe I’m wrong…but, aren’t they both, technically, reverse seared?
Also with the sous vide you can cook up five or six steaks at a time put them in the fridge or in the freezer and then pull out individual steaks as you need them making it far more convenient in the end
Please dont bash me, im just an Asian dude with a passion for cooking, i dont use fancy stuff.
*Why not just sous vide and finsh the cook with a reverse sear?* Wouldn't you get the best of both worlds because the vaccum sealed bag keeps the juices locked into the steak, while its also being soaked by butter in there, giving off extra juices to play with. Youd be able to then throw it in the oven to complete the cook, finally on the stove for a sear, locking in the juices and giving a nice crust on the steak?
Im looking to learn, any help or advice is much appreciated 😊
Sous vide is such a good technique for steak!!!!
I'm very interested in a lower temp reverse sear versus sous vide. obvious the tallow will help the sous vide flavor a lot
I like the reverse sear on a grill, the smoke elevates the beef, but can't go wrong with beef tallow, rosemary, and garlic in the bag
sous vide changed my world. the ability to have the best steak with the least worry makes it a no brainer
Charcoal enters the chat like a boss
Genuinely thought he said white Nutella when adding the tallow 😂😂
I don't sous vide as much any more, but on a work day, after work, it is nice to pop a frozen steak or something in a bag and drop it in the sous vide bath for an hour and fry it in bacon fat for a couple minutes each side for a tiny bit of char. Really makes a quick steak or something while a potato roasts or bit of rice cooks.
Love Andy's narations...😊
Both. Yum!
I sous-vide all my red meat with aromatics and garlic, once bag is sealed I usually leave it in the fridge overnight too, the flavor is just so nice and uniform. I also recently learned that when cooking very lean pieces (venison leg for instsance), it seems to be better to leave the meat cooking longer than otherwise needed to get a nicer texture..
I used my brewing bench to sous vide steaks. I was really enjoying it but something was different. Finally sous vide one and reverse seared the other at the same time. It came down to texture! The sous vide had a texture I didnt care for over the revese seared.
Good info. I do both and can never decide.
I've found that reverse sear tends to create a better crust with the drying process. Sous vide is insanely moist and you can get it spot on time after time. I'm not sure. So close, I might just lean towards the oven/reverse. Andy, where do you work?
Both are great, but I much prefer reverse sear, solely for the fact I do not need any non-standard equipment. Just an oven.
Also, that extra beefiness? You can get that by doing a shallow confit in the tallow as part of the reverse-sear process. Best of all worlds.
Switch your fresh garlic and tallow with garlic powder and no added fat and you'll improve your sous vide game. Watch the garlic and butter experiments from several years ago on Sous Vide Everything. Save the whole garlic and herbs for your reverse sear.
Reverse sear in smoker. Is the best way. Better then any restaurant
Sous vide for consistent texture and taste
I sous vide my steak, my chicken breast and my salmon.
Yeah, nothing beats sous vide. It’s just perfection everything and super juicy.
Both methods use reverse sear. Bring meat to temp slowly then seat at the end.
Outstanding comparison
The reason it beefier, is because it sits there cooking in its own juices
Fun fact: sous vide means under vacuum. So it's necessarily the tallow that makes it taste beefier, its the fact that the steak is cooking in its own juices.
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Please do a steak video with Guga!!! Would love to see him visit Australia and you guys collaborate.
Wonderful Aussie kitchen chemist, enjoy this very much mostly because u never lost the intrigue to keep learning new stuff. Reverse sear over fire for me, only cause don't have sous vid machine
46 degrees that shit raw AF!
Celcius numbskull
I love my sous vide. It helps with everything from mashed potatoes to fish and steak.
That sous vide is still mooing 😂😂😂
We Sous Vide our steaks, best way
I’ll never have any beef tallow so is the canned wagyu tallow ok/good to use or a waste of money? Love your channel!!!
I'll let you know what i think, I think you should cook me both steaks and I'll try them then I can feel qualified to state my opinion. Spoiler, both are delish!
I switch back and forth between the 2 methods. I find reverse sear has a better crust simply because the outside is drier and better for the final sear. Sous vide steaks are too watery, both for the final sear and the internal meat texture.
I see a lot of people complaining about sous vide because you’re using warm plastic. I don’t own one but wanted to know what people thought ab this
Reverse sear but smoke it for that added flavour instead of oven
Reverse sear is more accessible to the general public.
I want to buy a larger Sousvide option for resting my brisket at 150f for 12 hrs. Some smoked waygu beef talo, all the jazz, just in da bag.
If you want to compare the flavor of the two steaks, the only thing that should change is how they're cooked, not the ingredients used. It would have been a truer test had the sous vide been just seasoned, bagged, and put in the bath -- no garlic, rosemary, or wagyu tallow.
That said, i do reverse sear with smoke: 30-40 minutes at 225F with some hickory, then rest while I get the fire up, then sear off. Way more to my taste than the sous vide one, even if the sous vide has garlic, rosemary, and tallow added.
Sous vide would technically be a reverse sear as well.
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So did the reverse sear wait for the sous vide to be ready?
Doesn’t change something?
Would be interested to see you talk about meat with Guga.
Sous vide is a winner especially if you marinate the meat for several hours. The meat will be very tender.
Great video I love you
Sous vide is more repeatable, accurate, fool proof, etc. But, reverse searing has one advantage. No special equipment. But, really, aye, both are good. Invest in a GOOD instant read thermometer.
No plastic waste for the rubbish dump either
Reverse sear in a grill. Totally different flavor than an oven
Or sous vide and finish on grill thats what i do
I love not watching your vids for a month or 2 so I can binge em for like 30 minutes or more
Andy, you could at least have done a separate sear with an herb and butter baste for the reserve sear one come on, and reverse sear wins because you don't have to buy a sous vide bath and vacuum sealer
I prefer reverse sear, I always have but it's hard to beat the flavor and texture of a sous vide, I don't like the bag, though. I also think if you allow the reverse sear to reach temp with the oven and use all grass fed, grass finished meat including the talo with higher marble. You may get the same ir better response.🤷♂️
Sous vide allows to gain time in the organization, and be totally safe and mistake free in the hurry before the plating. I'll take sous vide all day
In a way they are both kinda the same, slight difference in texture but i think sous vide wins especially in a professional kitchen consistency is much better, i use thyme instead of rosemary but both works really well
Sous vide is cooking on easy mode. And I say that as someone who loves my sous vide machine, BECAUSE it is cooking on easy mode.
The one cooked with flavouring tasted better? No way!
By putting tallow and rosemary’s in the bag, you’ve given one more flavour, imo that’s not an equal competition.
I'll take both thank you very much!
Sous Vide all the way!!!
No wonder the sous vide was better in your opinion, it had beef tallow! With that inclusion you gave it an edge over the reverse sear. Not really a fair comparison imo.
Rev sear gf ribeye in pellet smoker to 43c then ci pan in gf beef tallow to 53c, wins every time 👍. I don't order steak in restaurants in Aus any more as most suck at steak. Keen to try Texas though 😁👍.
Come and git it! We have a few good steak places left. 🙂
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I still reverse sear... It comes out of the oven dry and will always be drier than a pat dry sous vide steak. You get a better and quicker sear having that drier start.
That's just a question of preparation. Sous Vide meat should cool down a bit before searing imo, so let them dry for some mins while cooling down. I put them in really cold water for a min first and i always get a really great sear.
Also it’s edited pretty good to not show him spending 5 minutes drying off the sous vide steak and using a whole roll of paper towels
Idk, I think this take is kind of uninformed, and I don't agree.
@@rykdheinerpat dry what you can with a single paper towel and then put it in the fridge for 15-30 minutes. Makes a huge difference in the sear
@@MrAlwaysRight I mean... It's taken directly from Kenji, it's not speculation. Also, reverse sear is literally oven cooking first, so it seems pretty clear that it's going to come out dry
I pretty much exclusively sous vide steaks but that was kinda unfair for the reverse sear. Wagyu tallow for the sous vide does so much for the beef flavour
You added more flavor to the sou vid steak so of course it would taste better
You are without doubt a legend! Just... That.... Aren't these both reverse sered still.?
Reverse grill is best. Put in oven on low for a bit, they finish it on the grill.
Reverse seared but on the smoker instead of the oven first is the way!
Reverse sear over charcoal for the win
That Sous Vide looks soft succulent & juicy
I do it both ways... Sometimes I say screw it . Directly on the coals of my outdoor fire .. love variety..
I reverse sear cuz I dont have the gear to sous vide and I dont eat enough steak to buy it, but id love to try it
Reverse sear on charcoal would be better! Almost as good as Mitch getting his chitterlings! 😊🙏