Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker Mini, 850 Watts, Black and Orange, App Enabled

Very easy to download and use app. Very simple machine to use and provides excellent results either meats and veggies. If new to sous vide, it will take a little practice to find the right seasoning levels as the food absorbs all the seasoning while in the bag. Sure is nice to always have the perfect temperature for your food.

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I bought the mini on sale for $20 just to try my hand at sous viding. And I am totally impressed with this little guy. Setup was a breeze, found a recipe for steak and ran with it. I cooked 2 strip steaks at 129 degrees fahrenheit for an hour the seared them in a cast iron skillet flipping every 30 secs until I was satisfied with the browning, then let them rest for 5 minutes or so, then it was chow time. They came out perfectly, butter soft melt in your mouth , steak house quality. I highly recommend.

Basically fails at every important / crucial features in a sous vide machine No Alerts - not with app nor the machine. Basically need to set own timer if plan to use it. Temperature fluctuation - since the internal thermometer is so slow, the temperature goes up and down a few degrees the entire time Inaccurate internal thermometer - when tested with 2 other digital thermometers, temperature was off by 4 degrees. - tested also another sous vide machine in the same water bath heating to 167F (Inkbird 200, which I recommend) and the Anova mini's app or thermometer was so delayed that it only showed 167 on the app a full minutes after it was hit and confirmed by the Inkbird. It was about 5 degrees behind the whole time heating up. Completely failed when doing low temperature test - it never stopped raising the temperature after hitting the desired temp. The timer just started counting down the moment the temp was hit Sound - quiet if never used another sous vide machine before but compared to others, quite loud. And higher pitched than comfortable. No physical buttons except pairing mode App only gets the time and temperature Bad customer service (emailed Anova with detailed explanation of problems and my troubleshooting and got 2 replies just telling me to try to reinstall the app and to try the app on another phone) I recommend Inkbird 200w if looking for a machine that has physical buttons, app that is useful, and super quiet and under $75 Thank you Amazon for great customer service (unlike Anova) and allowing a return

works great only negative is it is completely controlled by your phone app. It works as it should.