I got some thick NY strips from Costco and a few days ago reverse seared one, turned out great. Ignore the minimum effort sides I was just cooking for myself.
I was thinking of comparing to a SV steak and see which I like best. I have a breville toaster oven/air fryer super convection oven that I used to do reverse sear this one, but was wondering if I turned the temp down low to like 130 and put it on super convection and stuck the steak in there after the bath for 10 minutes if it would do a good job of drying the surface and allowing a nice sear.
Anyone try something like this before?
by 9MillimeterPeter
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Paper towels are a lot faster.
I haven’t but that’s an interesting idea. Paper towels don’t get all the moisture and moving air is great for that.
Towel dry vs blow drier for hair is my first thought.
Or even drying off after a shower and then air drying under a fan… if that makes sense
My toaster over has a dehydrate setting.
Remove protein from bag
Dry off with paper towels
Put in oven, set to dehydrate
Use a setting lower than what I used to sv with
IE: sv @ 130 for Steak, set dehydrate to 115
Set the timer to 15 mins
So far so good. I learned this option from this sub a few months ago.
I’ve used the 130F dehydration setting in our air fryer to dry steaks pre sear it’s nice it gets it quite dry. It seared up really nice- maybe just slightly too dry texture though.
Hair dryer on cold setting is faster.
Honestly, I just use my air fryer to reverse sear steaks instead of SV. I find the quality much higher, and it makes for a MUCH better sear.
With SV, no matter what, you’re still going to have moisture loss that can’t evaporate – so not stays in the bag and draws out some of the flavor from the steak.
Its not AS set and forget like SV, but it’s close.
Turn the air fryer down to its lowest setting – mine is 170. And stick a probe thermometer in.
Once it reached desired temp, pull it. Sear it. Eat it.