Love that Staggs: I order cases of the Silverado Beef, so anytime I want a quick and tasty meal I can just pop a bowl in the microwave. I cut up a little cooked sirloin and add that. Maybe the best chili I ever had. I always break out a roll of Ritz crackers to go with it.
"sous vide" is actually a cooking technique: Some meat goes in a sealed plastic bag and then is cooked at an exact stable temperature for several hours. Getting the temperature right usually requires a sous vide machine, which is a circulating hot water bath with a precise adjustable thermostatic controller. Theoretically, you could do it with a Ziplock bag and a pot of water on a hot plate. You'd just have to stir it for hours and keep adjusting the heat control.
