sous vide

adjective or adverb

: relating to or denoting a method of cooking food slowly in a vacuum-sealed pouch at a low temperature so as to retain most of the juice and aroma

Examples of sous vide in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Crock-Pot Programmable 6-Quart Slow Cooker with Sous Vide: A nice-looking slow cooker that produced delicious-tasting pork, this Crock-Pot also had many nice-to-have features like a temperature probe and the ability to sous vide. Alida Nugent, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024 Some models, like the Anova Precision Oven and Breville's Joule Oven Air Fryer Pro even have steam and/or sous vide functions—and the best multi-ovens are more precise and efficient than standard residential ranges too. Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 20 Sep. 2024 Lopez cooks the buds sous vide in a mushroom brine, dries them, and then shaves them like truffles to add an earthy punch to dishes. Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024 In response, over the past 60 years, like chefs operating a sous vide machine to produce the perfect bite, steelmakers—their cookers arc furnaces reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit, with robots doing the cooking—have created a vast variety of steels to match every need. John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sous vide 

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Word History

Etymology

French, literally, under vacuum

First Known Use

1986, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sous vide was in 1986

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Cite this Entry

“Sous vide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sous%20vide. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.

Kids Definition

sous vide

adjective or adverb
ˌsü-ˈvēd
: relating to or denoting a method of cooking food slowly in a vacuum-sealed pouch at a low temperature so as to retain most of the juice and aroma
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