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Default New Years Day Standing Rib "sous" vide without the vacuum

Sqwertz > wrote:

>Yes, it means "under". He's going to cook it "under" the top of the
>of the oven. not to be at all confused with "sous vide" - AKA, "Under
>vacuum". Vacuum being the most important part in said method.
>
>The guy is abnormally fixated on *******izing this specific method of
>cooking.


It's the same nomenclature game as "eggplant caviar". You take a
term that has both a specific meaning and some sort of cachet, and
start applying it willy-nilly to things that are vaguely superficially
similar, if that.

Steve