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Offline Halex

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #105 on: May 27, 2013, 11:29:28 am »
Yvette, very happy you got your money back, well done :)
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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #106 on: May 27, 2013, 01:05:00 pm »
Goog old Hardly Normals for giving you your money back. That is good news.
May all dairy items in your fridge be of questionable vintage.

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #107 on: May 28, 2013, 01:02:22 am »
They were scotch fillet steaks good quality, although not by the time they were finished  ;D

Taking it back on Saturday  :)

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #108 on: June 06, 2013, 01:11:03 am »
Yvette, I'm interested to know how you kept your steaks at 56 degrees for 2 hours - did you use a water bath, or a thermomix, or some kind of gadget to modify a slow cooker? (If either of the two latter options, did you test the water temperature at any point to check it?). It's a bloody shame (pun intended!) to ruin good fillet steak!! :)

Did it look medium rare when it came out? Or look over-cooked?

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #109 on: June 06, 2013, 01:13:10 am »
I did use a water bath I bought the 11litre Breville followed instructions and no good they looked undercooked if anything

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #110 on: June 07, 2013, 11:53:04 pm »
Well, the appearance of steak straight out of the water bath isn't that attractive (assuming it's medium rare, or not too far either side), it's the quick searing in/on a very hot pan which gives it the flavour and an attractive look - although by the sounds of it, if it seemed undercooked and was chewy etc., it was the steak that was bad! Hope you have better luck next time! :)

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Re: Heston Blumenthal 'Down Under' - and sous-vide cooking in the TMX!
« Reply #111 on: June 09, 2013, 05:08:28 am »
Thanks Andrea have taken it back have lost interest after the first attempt