AnchorChef Immersion Circulator, Commercial Restaurant Sous Vide Machine，Large capacity sous vide, Fast-Heating，Sous vide cooker 1400W，With large Touchscreen Accurate Temperature Timer (110V)

Works great, replacement for my PolyScience circulator that failed.Using for second time for Iberico Pork Rib Rack at 138F for 4 hours.Make sure that you drain all the water after use and store upright.I saved the packing material and box to store when not in use.

This was our first time using a Sous Vide and have to say... AnchorChef's smart design made the experience foolproof. While I ended up downloading a chart for sous vide cooking, our first attempt at cooking salmon was a very tasty hit. The salmon retained its moisture and we finished off with a quick pan sear to perfection. I think the end result for clearly speaks for itself.

This is an excellent sous vide machine with 1 ºF (or 0.1 ºC) levels of accuracy that can heat and circulate large volumes of water quickly.This sous vide machine is quite large if you're used to consumer-grade sous vide machines, considering its size and weight, as well as volume of water circulated. It's great for large (multi-family size) pots and restaurant-sized quantities, thanks to the 1400W power and large volume of water it moves. It's also quite large, as you can tell from my pictures, at about 5 inches across and 4.5 inches thick with about 6 inches of water depth possible. It's quick to set up and straightforward with the touchscreen controls, and it's very quick to heat up large volumes of water at mere seconds per degree. Overall, it's a very well-made and sturdy sous vide machine that can handle nearly constant use with minimal downtime, and I highly recommend it.As far as downsides, I'd say this isn't ideal for "your average home cook" because of two reasons - its price, and its temperature sensitivity. Many "average home cooks" are used to machines that claim 0.1 ºF accuracy (despite not really having that capability) so it's going to upset you if you go in desiring such a silly level of precision as you've likely been trained to believe in. There's also the price, which is definitely out of the range of an average sous vide machine. I would say this is worth the price, but only if you're regularly cooking large amounts of food via sous vide cooking.* I only review things that I personally use myself on a regular and continued basis.* I always give my full, honest, unbiased and unfiltered opinion on everything I review.* I will not hold back or avoid describing any issues I have with a product.* I write exactly what I think about things - the good, the bad, the ugly, and the questionable.* If I get multiple of something it's because I regularly use and need both of them.* And, I will update my review if something breaks, stops working as intended, or otherwise doesn't hold up as expected.

I have two of the regular stick immersion circulators, which work just fine. They claim around 700-800 watts heating power. I wanted to see if this one was indeed higher powered (claimed 1400 watts), so I did a test.I put 8 quarts of cold tap water in a container and timed both this unit and one of the lower power stick units. Here are the numbers I got taking it from 69ºF to 145ºF:Stick circulator: 26 minutes, 50 secondsAnchor chef circulator: 18 minutes, 39 secondsIt is quite a bit more powerful for sure. Though it's never been a problem for me to wait, sometimes I run a 22Q tank for ribs, and I think I'll use this. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a lid out there to accommodate this one, just the round stick types.The display is weird in that the main viewing angle is blurry, and virtually every other possible angle is sharp. It's not terrible. I can still read it fine even without my glasses on.It really really circulates the water quite a bit more than the stick type circulators. It's a bit louder, but it's not an objectionable sound, more of a very low frequency background noise. Not an issue at all.It doesn't have wifi control or anything like that, but to be honest, the two other (two different brands) stick circulators' wifi functions were so problematic, I don't even use them anyway.Nice unit, expensive, but very capable.

Super easy to set up and use. I've tried sous vide food before, but this was my first experience making it myself and it's probably my favorite method of cooking now. This device has a very slick and easy-to-use interface, maintains a constant temperature for as long as you need it (I started off with 12 hours at 155f, but my next attempt will be a lower temp and longer cook-time).

I've been loving sous vide immersion circulator. It saves me lots of time. You cooks it just the way I like it then all I have to do is brown whatever I'm cooking. The hard part sometimes is figuring out just how long to cook something. It depends on the thickness of the meat. The instructions that came with it we're obviously translated. And it's not a great translation but it works. Would be nice if this came with a recipe book of some kind or at least a few recipes. At the minimum, some tips on the time needed for cooking for different meats and thickness.