Comments on: Whole Fish à la Cooking Issues

By: foodsaver2240

foodsaver2240 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:04:19 +0000

foodsaver good function ,You do need to control both the water temp and the box temp,I am certainly impressed concerning the impressive solutions you give.

By: davearnold

davearnold — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:52:08 +0000

Circulate on detergent if it isn’t too bad, or else circulate a tab for cleaning combi ovens or circulate a CLR solution.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:17:56 +0000

Is there a specific way to clean after being used in fat?

By: davearnold

davearnold — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:57:09 +0000

Hi Aaron,
Nope. The circulator couldn’t care less. It is designed to take it. Cleaning it is more difficult.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:41:02 +0000

is there anylong term damage to the circulator when using oil n butta?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:08:37 +0000

Deep fry, sous-vide…..I like it. I’ve tied a few large fish before.
How many times can the Lexan/Cambro be used I wonder? The only thing better than catching the Striper is eating ‘em!
Thanks,
Bruce Clarke
U of R

By: Dave A

Dave A — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:07:44 +0000

Hi Koji,
Thanks for coming to the lecture. Minipack sells an accesory to use the bags outside the machine. I haven’t used it. I used to use the foodsaver, but that will only work on foodsaver bags. I have some fairly large bags, but they will have a lot of empty space in them if I bend the fish into a U. Tell me if you have any luck.

By: koji

koji — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:36:30 +0000

Hello, Mr.Dave. Thank you for the “cocktail” lecture on this past Wednesday. I sincerely hope the rotvap, I mean the distillation method, gets legalized soon in the USA so you will have no problem holding a lecture on it.

I do have a suggetion on this whole fish cooking. I now wonder on cryovac-ing. It seems like you did have a bag big enough to squeeze the guy into, if not, I have created super-sized cryovac bags by using the sealing function of the sous-vide machine. ( you just go minimum gas, and sealing @6-7. I just cut a couple bags in a manner so they are flat, one sheet of plastic, then sealed their edges by the machine.) Now what I wonder is what if we let the fish into the supersized Frankenstein bag, and have the bag cryovaced outside the cryovac machine…. am I suggesting something very silly here??? but you know just the part that needs to be sealed inside the machine… does an object to be cryovaced need to be inside the machine??? Probably…. hmnn I thought it was good idea, but maybe not. What do you think…?

By: Dave A

Dave A — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:14:55 +0000

Elias,
You mean to finish it? I can’t make a big fire in my apt. I tried once and almost got a divorce.

By: Dave A

Dave A — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:13:52 +0000

Howdy Antonchef,
All I had available in the quantity I needed was that super-deodorized commercial fry-oil.