Chili Palmer
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I was at Sam's Club a couple of weeks ago and saw they had corned beef again for St. Patty's day. I grabbed one and looked at the price $32! WTF??? Three years ago you could get a prepack corned beef for $8 - $12. Man, I sure do miss those mean tweets.
Fast forward to Saturday night, I cut open the bag, rinsed it off, added the spice pack to it and vacuum sealed it in a cooking bag and sous vide'd it for 48 hours at 145. Last night after work I picked up some rye bread - it was delicious, the texture was almost like deli meat, not juicy, but very moist and made some great sandwiches, not all shreddy like when it's boiled or in the pressure cooker. Sorry I didn't take any pics, it was too good and dug in. The only problem about doing it this way is there's no cabbage to go with it. I could have used the bag juices to do the cabbage, but i was just too damn hungry to wait.
Once you do corned beef sous vide style you won't do it any other way. Next time I may smoke it for a couple of hours before I bag it.
Fast forward to Saturday night, I cut open the bag, rinsed it off, added the spice pack to it and vacuum sealed it in a cooking bag and sous vide'd it for 48 hours at 145. Last night after work I picked up some rye bread - it was delicious, the texture was almost like deli meat, not juicy, but very moist and made some great sandwiches, not all shreddy like when it's boiled or in the pressure cooker. Sorry I didn't take any pics, it was too good and dug in. The only problem about doing it this way is there's no cabbage to go with it. I could have used the bag juices to do the cabbage, but i was just too damn hungry to wait.
Once you do corned beef sous vide style you won't do it any other way. Next time I may smoke it for a couple of hours before I bag it.