Exploring Sous Vide

Eamon (Rocky) Rockey, a beverage expert and Culinary Institute of America alum, dives into the world of infusions and milk punch. He uncovers the magic of using immersion circulators for rapid infusions, sharing techniques like using whole peppercorns to maintain clarity and flavor. Eamon discusses the intriguing history of milk punch, its preparation, and even his innovative Rocky's Liqueur. Plus, he experiments with unusual ingredients like acorns and critiques common infusion methods. A delightful mix of history and culinary science!

Today, we explore the ways to make sous vide more accessible, how to sous vide a whole chicken, and how sous vide is the ultimate tool for meal prep .

Today, we explore the benefits of cold vacuum infusions, how aroma can change an entire dish, and why layers flavors is the quickest path to gourmet food.

Today, we explore how to combine sous vide and smoking, what sous viders can learn from pit masters, and why personal preference matters so much in cooking.

We all know about steak, chicken, and pork, but a lot of us start to get nervous trying to cook more exotic things such as elk, deer or goose...much less kangaroo, ostrich, or alligator. But today's guest is the perfect person to help us expand our horizons.He is an award winning chef and the author  of Mastering the Art of Sous Vide Cooking, which was named one of the best sous vide cookbooks of 2019 by Book Riot. He was recognized by the National Black Chef’s Association as the first African American to  write a cookbook about sous vide. He is the founder of Gourmet Deconstructed catering  Services, which offers intimate parties and private dining for clients in the Greater New York Area. And he also manages the blog that started it all, GourmetDeconstructed.com.I can't wait to learn from today's guest, Chef Justice Stewart! Chef, welcome to Exploring Sous Vide!

Many people use sous vide for modern cooking, but it can also be applied to the classics. But when you are trying to update a traditional dish it can get confusing.  Luckily, today's guest is the perfect person to to help us out!He is a financial risk manager by day, sous vide chef, wine connoisseur, and food blogger by night. Stefan is from the Netherlands, but cooks like an Italian nonna. Except that he embraces modern techniques like sous vide to enhance classic recipes while staying true to their character. He has traveled all over Italy to discover new dishes and is now fluent in Italian, just to be able to immerse himself completely in the Italian food culture. In 2011 he started cooking sous vide as well as his food blog StefanGourmet.com, and became one of the leading sous vide bloggers. He doesn’t only cook Italian, but has branched out into Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Mexican, and other cuisines. Apart from all this he has studied wine and is an expert at pairing food with wine.I can't wait to learn from today's guest, coming to us all the way from the Netherlands, it's Stefan Boer, from Stefan's Gourmet Blog

Sous vide can be applied to a wide variety of foods, from home cooking to professional kitchens, from Italian and American to Bolivian and Brazillian. And today's guest is the perfect person to help us navigate those waters.He is a Certified Culinarian and Professional Cook. He has earned scholarships and won awards, as well as been featured in a MasterChef Cookbook, Voyage Magazine and Taste of America Texas . He's served successful internships in renouned restaurants like Eculent (Featured in The Washington Post as “One of the Best Restaurants in the world”), and Indigo (one of Time Magazines “World’s Greatest Places 2019”). He's also a Brand Ambassador for CrowdCow Craft-Meats and Forge to Table Knives.I can't wait to learn from today's guest, Thiago Quirino, from Robusto Food House 

Used by both the gourmet chef and the busy parent at home, sous vide can combine both the new and the traditional, the gourmet and the quick and easy. Trying to balance all of these facets of sous vide can be confusing, but today's guest is the perfect person to help us out!She is an avid home chef, private chef and food blogger with more than 20 years of culinary experience. She has also attended culinary school and is a brand ambassador for Traeger Grills, Anova Sous Vide and a chef ambassador at Hestan Culinary and is ServSafe Certified. She's a big-time foodie with a huge passion for cooking and continuing to learn about all thing’s food related!  And she's always up for a challenge, whether it's a recipe she hasn't tried before, a new cooking technique, or going on national TV to showcase her culinary skills!  I can't wait to learn from today's guest, Private Chef & Food Blogger of Aly's Elegant Eats, Aly Romero!

If you follow sous vide recipes you see a lot of steak and potatoes, a ton of midwestern fare, and some Italian dishes, but not a lot else.  Sous vide can be used in all cuisines though, but many cooks don't know where to start. And today's guests are the perfect people to help us explore that.They are the husband and wife team behind Kind of Cooking. While they are not professionally trained, they understood that sous vide can provide restaurant quality food and this is how Kind of Cooking was born. As they continued to cook and eat their way through research and experiments, they noticed a lack of Asian inspired sous vide recipes available. Hours were spent in the kitchen recreating childhood favorites and popular dishes. They share their sous vide experiments, what they’ve learned, and delicious recipes via KindofCooking.com and their YouTube Channel Kind of Cooking. I can't wait to learn from today's guests, Carmen and Kevin, from Kind of Cooking

Sous vide is about more than just putting food in a bag, it really is about precision temperature control, and today's guest is the perfect person to help us explore what that really means.He is the Chief Marketing Officer at Anova. Before that he was the Technical Director and Director of Applied Research for Modernist Cuisine. He's also the Co-Founder of Sansaire and a Microsoft and IBM alum. He's a longtime food geek, laser and robot enthusiast and I can't wait to learn from today's guest, Scott Heimendinger, the Chief Marketing Officer for Anova.