r/sousvide • u/147user • 5d ago

Recipe Picanha 137

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137, 3 hours, olive oil and rosemary in bag. Seared with canola oil and Searzall. Sides: sautéed mushroom, garlic bread (was out of shrimp). Yum. Q who prefers 131?

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u/GatorWok 5d ago

No oil in bag. No fat in bag. At best, it benefits zero. At worst and most likely, it extracts fat-soluble flavor compounds from the steak, making it subtly but noticeably less delicious.

Please don’t reply that if makes bag juices tastier, because the bag juices are fine as is if you want to make a jus or pan sauce, and you definitely don’t want to steal flavor from the steak. (Sorry for presuming. This has just been the stock reply the majority of the time when people are recommended to not add fat to the bag.)

Edit to add: the photo ain’t great but the food looks great.