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[GatorDave]

Has anyone purchased one of these Searzall attachments yet?  I just received a sous-vide for Christmas, and am looking at this one.  I think it will also do nicely for the reverse sear on my cooks.  Any firsthand info would be awesome.

[pmillen]

I bought one and gave it away to someone who repurposed it.  It's a joke.

See.

[slaga]

I used it a couple times and was not impressed with the results. I'll probably never use it again, at least for cooking...

[sleebus.jones]

I was going to buy one, but then couldn't find anyone who really liked theirs.  Money saved!

[GatorDave]

I bought one and gave it away to someone who repurposed it.  It's a joke.

See.

That's why I come here for info.  I do have a question though.  I have watched some youtube videos on it, and what the cooks on there say is that for a quicker sear, hold it very close (basically less than an inch from the meat), for a longer sear, hold it farther away.  Did you try the holding it closer method?

[slaga]

I bought one and gave it away to someone who repurposed it.  It's a joke.

See.

That's why I come here for info.  I do have a question though.  I have watched some youtube videos on it, and what the cooks on there say is that for a quicker sear, hold it very close (basically less than an inch from the meat), for a longer sear, hold it farther away.  Did you try the holding it closer method?

The closer you held it to the food the stronger a flavor came through that my kids absolutely did not like. My older taste buds were not quite as offended. At close proximity, maybe the fuel was not burning as cleanly at the point where the flame was hitting the food? I did use the larger propane bottle and bought the larger of the recommended torches in the instructions.

[GatorDave]

I bought one and gave it away to someone who repurposed it.  It's a joke.

See.

That's why I come here for info.  I do have a question though.  I have watched some youtube videos on it, and what the cooks on there say is that for a quicker sear, hold it very close (basically less than an inch from the meat), for a longer sear, hold it farther away.  Did you try the holding it closer method?

The closer you held it to the food the stronger a flavor came through that my kids absolutely did not like. My older taste buds were not quite as offended. At close proximity, maybe the fuel was not burning as cleanly at the point where the flame was hitting the food? I did use the larger propane bottle and bought the larger of the recommended torches in the instructions.

Thanks for the info. I will definitely have to take a pass on this.

[pmillen]

I didn't hold it close, either.  There's a metal mesh at the open end of the SearZall cone.  It gets red hot and emits infrared heat.  But a bit of flame makes it past the mesh.  I kept the flame off of the steak I was trying to sear.

It went slow.  I thought that the steak may have been too wet from the juices that are captured in the SV process so I stopped three times to dry it.  No joy.

I had more than one steak to sear and could see that the first ones would cool while I was was searing the others.  so I finally used frying pans on my gasser.