"isw" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "W" > wrote:
>
> > isw" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > In article >,
> > > "W" > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I bought a Sous Vide cooker, but the Android app I downloaded is
giving
> > me
> > > > questionable temperatures and times. Can anyone recommend a high
> > quality
> > > > guide to temperature/time settings for sous vide?
> > >
> > > What times and temperatures do you find "questionable"?
> >
> > I was told to cook at steak at a particular temperature for 2.5 hours
and it
> > would come out medium rare, and instead the inner third was medium rare
and
> > the outer two thirds were well done.
>
> Wish you had shared what that "particular temperature" was. Without
> that, it's impossible to diagnose what was wrong.
>
> Because for medium-rare the water bath should have been around 132-135 F
> (55-57 C). To get well done, the water would have to be considerably
> higher (around 158/70).
>
> So something went terribly wrong and the water bath was *way* too hot.

Meat was 30mm thick and temperature was dialed in at 55 C.

I tried to calibrate against two good thermometers, and it appears by sous
vide is off by about 3 F. My sous vide is high by that amount. Would that
be enough to give my result?

Maybe I need to adjust the recipes by the error in the unit's thermostat?

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W