Sous Vide Chuck Roast – A Delicious & Easy Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How long does it take to cook chuck roast in sous vide? ›

Yes, pot roast absolutely becomes more tender the longer it cooks. Roasts are generally made from tougher cuts of meat, such as chuck or brisket, which contain a lot of collagen, connective tissue, and fat. These tougher tissues require a long cooking time to break down and for the collagen to converts into gelatin.

I always recommend seasoning the roast beef before putting cooking it in the sous vide. The overnight salt helps to flavor the meat and also adds to it's tenderness. Cooking the other ingredients in the bag with the beef help to infuse the beef with flavor, while also making a delicious jus for dipping a sandwich in!

If you want good flavor and crust on your food, you will always want to sear it when it is done cooking. Even if you do a pre-sear, the crust itself will go away and can only be established by searing it after the sous vide process is over.

The sous-vide temperature is 130 – 134°F (55 – 57°C). The minimum cook time to sous-vide chuck roast is 18- 48 hours. I would recommend 24 hours, to get an even more tender roast.

Most recipes call for cooking the roast between 12 to 48 hours in a water bath set between 130ºF to 145ºF. We recommend a time and temperature combination of 136ºF for 24 hours when you're cooking a beef roast sous vide.

Stewing and braising are excellent methods for cooking chuck. These wet methods cook at 212F (or 240F in a pressure cooker) which are both low temperatures compared to oven roasting. At an internal temperature of 200F to 205F, the collagen proteins in the connective tissues melt and the meat becomes nicely tender.

Braise it in the oven, low and slow, or a slow-cooker. It will take hours, but you get a fall-apart roast that can be delicious, especially if you are braising it in a flavorful liquid. Think chili, for example, or a good stew base. The low and slow breaks down the collagen and makes the meat tender.

There are several reasons why this could have happened even after so much cooking. First, your choice of a rump roast could be a factor since cuts from the hind quarter are very muscular and, since muscles are the most resistant to breaking, this cut is quite stubborn when it comes to becoming tender.

Place in water bath and sous vide for 29 hours. NOTE: Anywhere from 24-36 hours will produce a wonderful result!

Do you sear first or after sous vide? ›

In the kitchen, you have to produce flavor, and then lock in that flavor. This is why we sear the meat before cooking sous vide. During the cooking process, the flavors are enhanced and reach the core of the steak. Finally, the flavor is secured in the meat during the chilling process.

Searing usually improves the appearance of sous vide food, creating a greater contrast between the edges and center of precision cooked foodstuffs. Along similar lines, searing after sous vide generates a difference in the texture and flavor of the inside versus outside, which is MUCH more tantalizing to the tastebuds.

When it comes to preparing a fork-tender cheap cut of meat like a chuck roast, I find using the traditional slow cooker method less than efficient or fool-proof. The sous vide cooking method using an immersion circulator is the way to turn an inexpensive cut of meat into prime-rib tenderness and flavor.

Let me show you how to take an inexpensive Beef Chuck Roast and cook it for 24 hours and transform it into the best Steak you have ever tasted. Season the Chuck Roast with Salt, Pepper, Garlic and Onion Powder. Seal in a vacuum bag and cook in your sous vide bath at 131 degrees Fahrenheit for 24-36 hours.

Place seasoned roast into a vacuum bag and seal using a vacuum sealer. Immerse the bag in a heat-proof container of water with a sous vide cooker. Set temperature to 134 degrees F (57 degrees C); cook for 18 hours.

With the oven at around 325 degrees, it's best to cook a roast for about one hour per pound. The above recipe is written for a 3-pound chuck roast and cooks for about three hours, or until fork tender. Use the one hour per pound rule as a guideline, then trust your senses when checking for doneness.

While many will tell you that it's impossible to overcook with sous vide (and this isn't far from the truth), do bear in mind though that if you leave the food in the water bath for an extended period of time it won't 'overcook', but it could start to take on a mushy texture, so don't forget about it!