Sous Vide Bacon on the Blackstone Grill

nolaegghead said:

Nice job Leroy!  Does the SV make it more tender?  How long at 148 or whatever it was at?  Also, loved the soft porn music in the background - big turn on especially when combined with bacon

Thanks.  'More tender' is hard to answer because bacon gets 'more tough' as it is cooked, until it it just right.  I personally think the sous vide is akin to parboiling in this instance.  That just speeds up the actual cooking later.  But I did notice that it took less time to cook the bacon.  I also thought I had better control over the cook, but that could be attributed to the Blackstone Grill.  It's great for cooking bacon.

As for time in the sous vide bath, I'm guessing about 8 hours.  I was just following a suggestion by the Chef Steps cook to sous vide 'Overnight.'  I suspect the reason for overnight was that even though the bacon was sliced, it was compressed in the package, thereby making it essentially a fairly thick piece of meat.  In order for the sous vide water to penetrate throughout the meat to both cook it and pasteurize it, a longer cook time was needed.  The final cook on the grill was to sear it to the desired texture.  At least that's the way I thought of it.

As for the music, I often spend more time searching for the music than I do for editing the photos and video.  Glad you liked it.  I'm always tempted to throw in a little Classical, but it's hard to fit Hard Classical into a short cook.  Maybe a little Light Classical would be nice, especially if it suggested an erotic theme. Alas, not much of that around though.

Spring "Music Is The Stuff That Gives Rhythm To Images" Chicken