boil-in-bag

American  

[boil-in-bag] / ˈbɔɪl ɪnˌbæg /

adjective

1. of or being a prepared, often frozen, food sealed and sold in a plastic bag that is immersed in boiling water until the contents are cooked or heated for serving.

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The boil-in-bag process that consumers use to reheat the product may resemble a sous-vide technique, but, in practice, it’s distant from the carefully calibrated approach employed by celebrity chefs such as Keller and Wylie Dufresne.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2017