低温調理（スービード）の温度管理は肉の食感をどう変える？

Cooking Techniques & Heat

Research suggests that precise sous-vide temperature control can make meat more tender and softer than conventional cooking, especially under lower-temperature, longer-time conditions in some studies. But the result depends on the meat, cooking time, and target temperature: raising the temperature can increase firmness or toughness in some meats, while prolonged cooking can reduce hardness in others.

For a home cook, sous-vide gives tighter control over texture because the meat stays near the chosen temperature. Studies of buffalo, chicken, horse meat, beef, pork, and fish generally found that sous-vide could reduce toughness or hardness compared with conventional cooking, but the best setting was not the same for every meat. In buffalo, 55°C for 48 hours produced especially low texture measurements among the sous-vide treatments; in chicken, 60°C treatments were more tender than oven cooking. Temperature is not the only factor: cooking time, meat type, freezing history, and the endpoint temperature can all change the result.

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• The studies used different meats, temperatures, cooking times, texture tests, and comparison methods, so their results cannot be treated as one universal sous-vide rule.
• Some studies examined temperature together with other variables, such as cooking time, freezing history, high pressure, storage, or muscle type.
• The research describes measured texture changes but does not establish one best temperature for all meats or recipes.

Papers used (7)

1. The effects of sous-vide cooking on the physicochemical, microbiological, and carbon footprint of buffalo meat at various temperatures and times — International Journal of Agricultural Technology, 2021
2. Horse Meat Subjected to Sous-Vide Cooking: Texture Changes and Sensory Acceptability — Processes, 2024
3. Protein structural and textural characteristics of sous-vide cooked rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) meat — International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 2025
4. Interactive Effects of Freeze-Thaw Events and Endpoint Cooking Temperature on Water-Holding Capacity and Instrumental Tenderness of Pork Loins Cooked Using Sous Vide — Meat and Muscle Biology, 2025
5. Effect of low-temperature sous vide under high-pressure on the moisture retention, tenderness, and color of pork loins — npj Science of Food, 2025
6. Effect of Traditional Cooking and Sous Vide Heat Treatment, Cold Storage Time and Muscle on Physicochemical and Sensory Properties of Beef Meat — Molecules, 2022
7. Sous vide cooking: A review — International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 2012

Answer last checked 2026-10-13T07:32:51.482Z. Answerlog reads titles and abstracts, not full papers, and does not assess study quality or claim consensus.

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