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104 Freshness and enjoyment The versatile Miele built-in vacuum-sealing drawer Strong arguments for many applications The new vacuum sealing drawer from Miele can help with all kinds of applications, whether you are portioning, storing, marinating or preparing food for sous-vide cooking. Vacuum-sealing your food makes it last much longer and retain its flavour better – this applies both to fresh and cooked food. Another benefit is that it is not only everyday types of food that can be vacuum-sealed, so too can delicate specialty dishes. Sous-vide - gentle cooking in a vacuum Sous-vide is French and means "under vacuum" or "vacuum- sealed". With this method, you cook your food in a vacuum sealing bag at a constantly maintained low temperature in a steam oven. This gentle method is particularly highly recommended when cooking meat, fish, vegetables or fruit, because the low heat means important nutrients and flavours are retained. However, due to the low temperatures used in sous-vide cooking, cooking durations are longer than when using a conventional steam cooking method. Good flavour retained The new vacuum sealing drawer from Miele offers you a huge range of applications: you can maintain the quality of your food, make it last longer or prepare it for sous-vide cooking. This is all simple and straightforward by placing food in a plastic bag, removing the air, then creating an airtight vacuum seal. For example, you can easily vacuum-seal leftovers and freeze them – the nutrients, flavour and vitamins are retained much longer than with conventional freezing. Vacuum-sealing also prevents freezer burn and can save a lot of space in your freezer. Liquids such as soups can be vacuum-sealed without difficulty too. In addition, it is the perfect way to prepare food for sous-vide cooking. Divide it into portions, store it and prepare it for culinary perfection – all with a single appliance.