Comment on Insulated sous-vide container I made
enchanted@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this to conserve electricity? I don’t understand why it needs insulating, mine can handle gallons of water uninsulated.
Comment on Insulated sous-vide container I made
enchanted@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this to conserve electricity? I don’t understand why it needs insulating, mine can handle gallons of water uninsulated.
quandang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, it’s to prevent heat loss and water loss. I just feel that an insulated container would lose a lot of heat over the hours of cooking.
What are you heating in this contraption?
quandang@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sous vide bags containing the food I want to cook
Do you plan on running it outdoors in the winter or something?
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
I have a sudden desire to turn my 21L steel stockpot into an extremely large insulated slow cooker.
Previously thought of using a straw box or similar where you heat it and then stick it in the box and seal it up and just leave it.
Now I just need to find enough people to eat up to 21L of stew or curry.
quandang@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I did think of insulating my big pot too, but I don’t use it very much. One time I made a big pot of spaghetti sauce for freezing and now I still haven’t finished eating it.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
Yeah there is that too, would need a lot of freezer tubs. I also don’t have space for a microwave to reheat them. Some stuff could go in the air fryer, or a saucepan.
My partner really doesn’t like eating stuff that has been frozen though. I think she gets it from her parents, they are really funny about it for some reason. They appear to think “best before” means “toxic after”.