Veggies sous vide on the smoker?

[BryanMaloney]

Okay, maybe I'm having a moment and just need to be talked down, but couldn't one use a sous vide bag on a smoker to cook vegetables without drying them out? A trick would be finding a cool spot in the smoker, yes? Or have I just gone mad? It could be called "pseus vide".

How about smoked/pseus vide potatoes? Start them on the smoker to soak up a bit of flavor, pop them in the bag, seal with a bit of liquid, then pop into the cool smoker spot?

 

[thirdeye]

How about using Reynolds Cooking Bags, the kind you oven-bake a chicken in?

 

[BigW.]

No need to use expensive sous vide bags when cheap tin foil is available and will not melt or explode from steam build up.

 

[thirdeye]

No need to use expensive plastic bags when cheap tin foil is availible and will not melt or explode from steam build up.

Good point. I still make the Boy Scout 'hobo potatoes' with onion, garlic, and peppers.

 

[BryanMaloney]

No need to use expensive plastic bags when cheap tin foil is availible and will not melt or explode from steam build up.

Okay, but I'm not a fan of how aluminum leaches into things when heat and acid are applied. The plastic would let me add marinade to the vegetables with less chance of reaction.

 

[BryanMaloney]

How about using Reynolds Cooking Bags, the kind you oven-bake a chicken in?

That could work.