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Creamiest eggs I've ever had. Where has sous vide been all my life???

Ah...clever. I have finals starting on Tuesday so am slower than usual. Trying to keep all of GI, renal and neuro in my brain before it explodes.

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Meal #2 with the anova. Chicken breast with vegetable steamed rice.

Chris/Jacob/other anova users, do you find yourself sticking the veggies in with the steak at the same time or do you run them separately?

First sous vide meal. As good as the steak was, the potatoes stole the show. The garlic taste was all over with none of the garlic visible. Simply fantastic.

Picked it up a short while ago. Initial thoughts....it's a lot bigger than I thought it would be. My pot is a lot smaller than I thought it was. It is plenty big for a couple of steaks and veggies. The sound it makes when turned on is the coolest. Too late to cook anything tonight but steaks for lunch tomorrow

Is there a reason not to stick a frozen steak in the water bath with the anova circulator? I get it tomorrow. Was wondering if thawing the meat was necessary or not. Nevermind. I guess people do this all the time and just add an extra 30 minutes to cook time.

Never had a tuna salad anything before. Smells too strong for me. My roommate my sophomore year leaving an open can of tuna over winter break and then forcing the entire side of the floor to find alternate living arrangements for a few days probably had something to do with it. Holy hell I just remembered how bad our room smelled. Fucking retard.

Perhaps after my next set of finals next week. I don't really have the appropriate footwear to get wet. The boots I do have are rather heavy to begin with and I have a feeling I am just going to be miserable walking around in them soaking wet. Freaking hate having such wide/flat feet. I've tried pretty much every brand out there and none of them seem to fit. Finally purchased a pair of red wing boots that are a little too wide. I don't know how much better that is than the shoes being too tight.

Do you need waders to walk around or would water resistant boots be ok?

Very cool Mike. Where were these taken?

Does anyone here have experience with eye fi cards? I often take portraits for colleagues and so far my workflow has been the following. 1. connect D800 to macbook air via stock usb cable. 2. shoot tethered to lightroom so that whenever I take a shot it automatically gets imported into lightroom and pops up in my library. 3. the subject can look through the 10 or so shots taken and pick the one their like/want me to edit. 4. I make a note of the file name and then edit that one. I don't find myself using my macbook air all that much and it is too expensive a machine just for this purpose so I sold it. We are no long allowed to use laptops to take exams either as the school is transitioning to iPad testing. Future shelf exams will be on the iPad as well so I purchased one today. Now I'd like to be able to do the same as above with the iPad. I purchased the lightning - usb camera adapter cable from Apple which allows me to do the following. 1. connect D800 to iPad via stock usb cable plugged into the adapter cable from Apple. 2. manually select all the photos that I have taken. 3. click on import at which point they show up in my photo album where I can look through them. The issue with this approach is that I can't find a way to get the file name of the image the subject selects. I can take a screen shot of it but given how there are very subtle changes in between shots it will be a nightmare to later find which one they chose. There is an additional step I can take at this stage to import the files just imported into light room's mobile app which will give me the file name of the shot they like. Just the previous set up alone with having to click stuff to get the files on the iPad is slowing me down enough and getting rid of the instant feedback I was getting on the laptop so I could adjust the lighting as needed or adjust the pose. Basically I want to take a shot and with a reasonable delay, have the image pop up on my iPad in some app with some way of marking the image whether it be my filename or highlighting or whatever that can be recovered when I get to my desktop to edit the files. Any ideas?

Where's the beef in there? lol Looks fantastic.

Yeah, I was actually trying to grab one of the older ones when they had a blow out sale for $99 to avoid these issues. Would have been nice to be able to turn on the circulator an hour before getting home but wasn't sure if the meat/whatever was in the container would not spoil during the day.

Mike, the remote controlled versions have had their problems. Certainly the people who wrote reviews most frequently are those that aren t happy but the reviews for the apps in the Apple app store are very poor. Even their support forum is littered with people not being able to connect to Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

Early morning.

Deshi deshi basara

Nod

I doubt my electricity bill or the smoke detector will like either of those things.

how do you get the pan that hot? My oven only goes to 500C. Does a stove top go beyond that? I honestly don't know so asking.

To those with searzalls....how to do you prevent cooking the entire steak? I feel like by the time I get even a meager sear like this, the inside of the steak starts to cook. I make one with my cast iron pan last night and the crust was crispier. what am I doing wrong? It looks brown but it certainly doesn't have the crisp outside of a sear done on a cast iron pan. I have set off my smoke detector twice already so not sure what the advantage is so far of the searzall...for steaks that is. Makes great eggs.

http://home.woot.com/?ref=w_gh_hm_2 Don't know if this is any good but in case anyone was looking...

Ghetto sous vide. Couldn't keep the temperature steady so the chicken was a little overdone. Veggies were perfect.

At the time I had $5000 saved up. I wasn't doing anything with it. If I were to sell all the shares right now I would profit $131000. Is this return the norm? Absolutely not. Had I sold it in December before it took a nosedive I would have made $165000. It's not money I depended on. It was put aside to purchase a car but when I got into MIT, I just left it in the savings account and forgot about it. A fellow math grad student had made quite a bit of money in the past so upon his suggestion I purchased Netflix. Don't regret the decision one bit. My retirement account on the other hand is diversified up the wazoo but has also gotten me a 2% net profit over the last 7 years. Slow and steady I guess.