Sous Vide cooking and our travels
What is Sous Vide? Sous vide (pronounced sue-veed) , means “under vacuum” in French, and refers to the process of vacuum-sealing food in a bag, then cooking it to a very precise temperature in a water bath. It sounds complicated, but it's really simple and the tools for this have become very affordable. How does this relate to RV life? My RV adventures are not those of a full time RVer, but the same techniques would certainly work. I've only recently become exposed to sous vide cooking, but it's already made our camping easier. You can cook a surprising number of things using this method, and because the majority of the items are already vacuum sealed, once they're cooked they can be stored in the refrigerator until you need them later. Caveat. The sous vide cooker and cooking process require electricity. I keep forgetting to plug my Kill-O-Watt meter in to see just how much it uses. This might not be suitable for boondocking (dry camping) beca...