vac sealed chicken

henapple · May 2014

Making another food delivery this weekend. Best way to vac seal chicken? I can go pulled but wondering if there's any other way.

Mickey · May 2014

If spatchcocked I would cut in half and vac those.

henapple · May 2014

Just warm in water or ?

otter · May 2014

You mean to reheat?

Chef Charles · May 2014

We like to cook up ham on the egg and we vacu seal several slices and freeze it for later use. To reheat, you just drop the bag directly from the freezer into boiling water and it comes out tasting as fantastic as it did when first cooked.

henapple · May 2014

@otter‌. Yes

Fred19Flintstone · May 2014

Best way to vacuum seal chicken? I would use a Food Saver. They're pretty good.

nolaegghead · May 2014

You still have that food saver?

Anyway, if it's a whole chicken, I'd dismember it - cut off the thighs, legs and wings, then carve out the breasts from the carcass, throw all that stuff in a bag and suck out the air with the foodsaver.

henapple · May 2014

She's still chugging along. I use it a lot.

Skiddymarker · May 2014

I use same method as @nolaegghead, debone the breasts, toss the wing tips, leave the thigh and legs together as one piece - suck the air out and then dial in the Trés Booblay to 140ºF and warm up is done in 15 to 20 minutes.

For the two of us, I use two separate bags - one with legs/thighs, one with breasts/wings

SmokeyPitt · May 2014

Skiddymarker said:

I use same method as @nolaegghead, debone the breasts, toss the wing tips, leave the thigh and legs together as one piece - suck the air out and then dial in the Trés Booblay to 140ºF and warm up is done in 15 to 20 minutes.
For the two of us, I use two separate bags - one with legs/thighs, one with breasts/wings

Do you leave the skin on during the seal and reheat? If so, how does the skin turn out after the reheat?

nolaegghead · May 2014

@smokeypitt - just like you'd expect - not crispy. I suspect you could restore a little life in to it with a looft lighter or something really hot, maybe a broiler.

Skiddymarker · May 2014

SmokeyPitt said:

Skiddymarker said:

I use same method as @nolaegghead, debone the breasts, toss the wing tips, leave the thigh and legs together as one piece - suck the air out and then dial in the Trés Booblay to 140ºF and warm up is done in 15 to 20 minutes.
For the two of us, I use two separate bags - one with legs/thighs, one with breasts/wings

Do you leave the skin on during the seal and reheat? If so, how does the skin turn out after the reheat?

For reheats, the skin comes off - I do this after the reheat, but don't see why it couldn't be done before vac packing. Dog looks forward to reheat night, she gets the skin. We serve our reheats with Swiss Chalet dipping sauce (local Wally World) so skin would be soggy anyway.

Might try Nola's idea of hitting it with a torch - but I think it might be beyond ever seeing crispy again.

SmokeyPitt · May 2014

That's what I was thinking- thanks Nola and Skiddy.

nolaegghead · May 2014

For all you nerds out there. I just got this 39" 4K monitor for my office.

tulocay · May 2014

@nolaegghead‌ , Damn!

nolaegghead · May 2014

3840x2160 resolution - same as 4 1080p monitors. It's like a data IMAX.

SmokeyPitt · May 2014

Nice! Of course by data, he means pr0n.

Eggcelsior · May 2014

@nolaegghead Your Geo-tagging is on but it shows you in the Swamp under the 10/310 interchange. Are you going True Detective on us, Rust?

nolaegghead · May 2014

@Eggcelsior - Yeah, I broke my Galaxy S4 last weekend so I had to switch back to my old Samsung Droid Charge and I guess I never turned it off on that. I order a replacement display that should be coming in on Monday.

That location is a couple miles from my office, but yeah, we're in dat swamp. True Detective dat.

Eggcelsior · May 2014

Just the glass or the digitizer too? I just had mine fixed for 75 bucks. I priced everything out and it would have been more expensive to do it myself(I would have to get the tools too)

nolaegghead · May 2014

Both. You can buy the glass for $15. I found the digitizer with glass, video "card" assembly for $120, which is actually really cheap for that phone.

Eggcelsior · May 2014

I just broke the glass on my white s3. I found it for 18 but the heat gun and other tools pushed it past the quote I got once I started on researching the fix(youtube). The white version isn't laminated like the blue and black ones so the digitizer was effed up during the repair so he replaced it for free(100 dollar part). Good guy.