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Read more »During sous vide cooking, some cooking bags may inflate, sometimes quite dramatically, when exposed to high temperatures such as 95°C. This phenomenon is caused by steam and gases present in the food that are released and expand under the effect of heat.
It is important to understand that this inflation is not related to the quality of the bag used, but to the physical and chemical properties of the food itself.
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Posted: December 26, 2021Categories: Technical InfosTags: technical information, hot pack, hot accumulator, hot pack, eutectic plate, cool pack, cold accumulatorViews: 1975
Read more »What is an Eutectic plate?
The word Eutectic comes from the Greek -eútēktos- which means "which melts easily". It is a mixture of products (minerals, pure substances) which mainly has 2 characteristics:
- it changes from the solid state to the liquid state releasing energy in a constant manner AND for a given temperature range,
- regarding cooling eutectic gels it is possible to reach much lower temperatures (-21°C, -5.8°F) than that of frozen water (0°C, 32°F).
For example, a bottle of frozen water in your cooler will allow you to lower the temperature of its contents but will result in freezing the food located nearby with strong temperature variations during the coolng down period of time.
A cooling accumulator (or cooler pack) conta
