Sous Vide Prime Ribs for Christmas Eve

[demosthenes9]

I usually smoke these at 225ish, but was trying them Sous Vide for the first time.

The plan was for a 10.x and a 9.x lb on at 134 for 8 hours, to be followed by a short smoke and hot sear on a Weber Ranch Kettle.

After posting about this elsewhere, someone else mentioned that they didn't like the texture after an 8 hour bath, that they were going to do 6 next time. This got me freaking out. Decided to alter my plan and ended up going 7 hours on the soak. Afterwards, they went indirect on the Ranch Kettle which had been set up with charcoal and pecan and hickory chunks.

Right when it was time to leave and transport to my Aunt's, I lifted up the lid of the Ranch for a , moved each loin over the hot coals and rolled them around the flames giving them a nice hot sear.

As I had time on my hands while the PRs were swimming, I cooked a Pork Crown Roast as well (yeah, in the oven)

Not pictured is the 22lb turkey that I roasted the day before. Carved it, vac bagged it, brought it back up to temp via sous vide and plated it as well.


I'm guessing folks were at least ok with the offerings as there were only a few scraps left by the end of the night.

 

[pineywoods]

It all looks awesome How was the taste and what are your thoughts now?

 

[dwdunlap]

Wow!! What a feast! Like for sure. Really like your photos. Very informative...

 

[bmudd14474]

Wow that looks great

 

[SmokinAl]

Nice job!
Everything looks delicious!
Al

 

[crazymoon]

DT9, Awesome looking meal ,nice SV and smoke!

 

[Co4ch D4ve]

Good looking meal for sure! I’m interested in your thoughts on the texture of the PR. Would you do it again the same way?

 

[chilerelleno]

OMG'osh that looks great.
Wish I'd had a place at the table, there'd been no scraps left.
Wonderful Meal, LIKE!

 

[loosechangedru]

Holy crap, ALL the showstoppers! Yardbird, crownroast, prime rib...where's the homemade turducken???

Everything looks great, never tried SV. Glad you had success!

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Wow that all looks amazing. Points for sure!

 

[flatbroke]

shazam!! nice job.

 

[ab canuck]

That looks Fantastic, Every part of that dinner sounds like it was scrumptious. LIKE for sure. Great job on it all.
Congrats on the carousel ride.

 

[Bearcarver]

Looks like a bunch of Lucky Peeps ate Real good at that Get-Together!!
Nice Job, Demo!!
Like.

Bear

 

[demosthenes9]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. The PR tasted great. That said, I've seen many other sous vide PR posts on a couple of FB groups that looked awesome as well. So, I might experiment a bit and try longer times, or slightly different Temps. The precision of SV is pretty insane when you consider that you can change cooking and finish temps by half of a degree. For exame, I might try the next one at 135.5. There will be some magical point where just that half a degree more might make all the difference in the world. Same thing with time. Another 15, 30 or 60 mins could really change things.

In reality though, that would just be trying to chase perfectuon as this PR was absolutely fantastic.

 

[demosthenes9]

Looks like a bunch of Lucky Peeps ate Real good at that Get-Together!!
Nice Job, Demo!!
Like.

Bear

Thanks Bear! Having to step up my game to try and match your PR mastery!

 

[texomakid]

Wow.....Looks amazing

 

[nanuk]

Wow!

all I can say is "Wow"

 

[HalfSmoked]

Awesome Awesome Awesome great meal. Although I'm not yet sold on the SV thing that PR looks great as well as the rest of your meal.

Warren

 

[demosthenes9]

Thanks! I was kind of leary aboutthe whole SV thing. Let's just say that I'm sold on it now.

 

[Rafter H BBQ]

That all looks great, very nice!