using food saver marinate dish to save time??

[rc4u]

has any body used there marinating dish that you can buy for like high mountain dry season with cure?? it still gets moisture and thought instead of waiting 24 hrs that the vacuum would do just as well like marinating.seems to me it would draw cure and season into meat as good or better that just waiting. thanks..

just finished a 12# cyro vac bottom round and had 11# after fat cap off. ending weight was 5.25#.. oh and really good. did at 140 then to 150+160 on my smoke hollow with mesquite chunks and pecan pellets. just cut up a 13# bottom rnd and that's why wondering about the vacuum method

 

[chef jimmyj]

I have not used it for cure but it works great for cutting marinade time. I think it would save curing time on thinner cuts...JJ

 

[browneyesvictim]

Yes. It works for me. But I cant give you any tangible numbers in % of time in reduction etc. I have just gone by the seat of my pants for marinades, but never relied on it for curing. This would be good info to know if you find out! My guess there would have to be a chart or formula based on mm/Hg and time that would give a distance measurement of penetration. I imagine it would also be different for different proteins or items as they would have different densities/porosity.

<edit> now that I think of it I have used a vacuum container to cure poultry parts once, but I still went 4 days.

 

[rc4u]

ok I will try the call food saver and get tech to answer questions. I just think[hope]its gotta work.. likr I was supposed to put seasoned cure on yesterday but felt like crap. and today wind was nice. well today gets the sprinkle and hope tomorrow is not so windy..

 

[tallbm]

I agree I think It would save time overall. For big cuts that are cured I think it could only get in so far and then the natural process of marinade and cure traveling deeper would take over. Maybe that would even be faster since there is positive force kind of pushing everything into the meat.

If you test it all out let us know :)