Last Christmas, I received the book Modernist Cuisine - The Art of Science of Cooking<\/a>. \r\n\r\n In you are not familiar, sous-vide is a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bath for a long time at an accurately determined temperature much lower than normally used for cooking. This results in tender and juicier meats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n I have to try...<\/p>\r\n\r\n The Research<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n I did some research to figure out how I could try this at home and found this amazing flowchart<\/a> about how to choose a Sous Vide Machine. Give a look, and post a comment below<\/a> if you are also an electrical genius<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n After studying all my options, I decided that, even if I could afford a nice expensive machine like the SousVide Supreme<\/a>, I am going to build my own... and this will involve Simulink.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The Plan<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n So I began thinking about the details.<\/p>\r\n\r\n To keep my water bath at a fixed temperature, I will use a cheap, easy to use, micro-controller called an Arduino Board<\/a>. I have never used one before, but I found the Simulink Support for Arduino Boards under Hardware for Project-Based Learning in the Academia page<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n To measure the temperature of the water bath, I will use a cheap temperature sensor chip, (like the LM35), solder a cable to it and isolate the extremity with silicone so I can drop it in the water bath.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Now... the water bath. For this part I hesitated a bit. After some reflection, I decided that will use a crockpot I already own and will switch it On and Off using a relay. If found on the web a device called PowerSwitch Tail<\/a><\/li> that will be perfect for that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The following schematics gives an overview of my project:<\/p> \r\n\r\n What's Next?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n I ordered all the stuff needed online and now I am waiting. If everything goes fine, next week I will follow up with the implementation and testing of my Simulink sous-side cooking system.<\/p>\r\n\r\n I can't wait to try the 24 hours pork ribs!<\/p>\r\n\r\n Update:<\/strong> Click here to see part 2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n Now it's your turn<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n Please share any tips and suggestions to help with my sous-vide system. Leave a comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week I am sharing the first part of a story about what I do with Simulink during weekends!\r\n\r\nIntroduction\r\n\r\nLast Christmas, I received the book Modernist Cuisine - The Art of Science of... read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,67],"tags":[254,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/simulink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Modernist](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q1\/hp_beauty_shot.jpg\")
<\/p>\r\n\r\nThroughout the book, the author Nathan Myhrvold puts a lot of emphasis on a cooking technique called sous-vide<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n![\"Arduino](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q1\/arduino.png\")
<\/p>\r\n\r\n![\"Schematic](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/seth\/2012Q1\/SousVideDiagram.png\")
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