boil-in-bag

[boil-in-bag]

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.

Example Sentences

Among the things we’ve stashed in our freezer in recent weeks: pizzas made in Naples; boil-in-bag ramen kits from a Japanese chef in San Francisco; chicken pot pie and Korean beef stew from a New York City start-up.

From Washington Post

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