Walmart [walmart.com] has
800W Anova Culinary Bluetooth App Controlled Sous Vide Precision Cooker Mini Lite w/ Optional Wifi Subscription (Black) for
$38.
Shipping is free.
Product Description from Walmart
Results: Sous Vide offers the most precise cook times and temperatures to produce the most tender and perfectly cooked steak possible. Easy: Three easy steps: 1) Attach your cooker to a water filled pot. 2) Set the time and temperature 3) Seal the food, add it to the pot, and press start on the app. Value: Our most affordable cooker ever. This machine costs the same, if not less than, 1 night out at a steakhouse. Cook: Once you've conquered Sous Vide steak, you have plenty of power to cook perfect sous vide meals, big or small. Cook meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, and more. Vacuum sealed bags, silicone bags, and zip locked bags are all compatible with Sous Vide Anova App (free/bluetooth connectivity only): Control your time and temp directly on the Anova app. Anova App (subscription/Wi-fi connectivity): For $1.99 a month or $9.99 a year (cancel subscription at anytime), get access to the ultimate sous vide educational content and cooking guides. Recipes from professional chefs and the food nerd community feed directly to your Precision Cooker Mini Lite at the touch of a button. Continuous access to your personal recipes and cook history, ready to revisit or share with your friends and family. Two week free trial included.
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Sorry-not-sorry but intentionally crippling a product to force people into their app is a hard pass. I have one of the OG sticks that doesn't even have BT/wifi and I've never missed their creepy, data-collecting app.
Hard pass on this at pretty much any price short of free.
Has anyone actually confirmed that Anova will discontinue Bluetooth access? I seriously cannot believe that they would announce that, or even do it at all. It would be a marketing nightmare. Maybe that's why they're on clearance.
v1 actually has a colorful touchscreen and not a scroll wheel. I remember people complaining about the screen not responding, especially when steamy and wet. Hence the transition to a wheel.
Here's a photo of v1 and v2.
https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/fle...3b20b7.jp
Sorry-not-sorry but intentionally crippling a product to force people into their app is a hard pass. I have one of the OG sticks that doesn't even have BT/wifi and I've never missed their creepy, data-collecting app.
Hard pass on this at pretty much any price short of free.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094921FYY
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094921FYY
Here's refrigerated model, the $399 Figo.
https://eatfigo.com/products/the-smart-sous-vide
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Check this model out. Similar price, higher wattage and no need for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094921...V9kZX
v1 actually has a colorful touchscreen and not a scroll wheel. I remember people complaining about the screen not responding, especially when steamy and wet. Hence the transition to a wheel.
Here's a photo of v1 and v2.
https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/fle...3b20b7.jp
ya, mine is on the right, and, yes, I think it has BT, but I never used it, if I remember right.
You can also boil water and pour it over your coffee maker but you would think its insane if they charged you monthy to use the brew button on the machine.
you can or can't do it. depending on a few things...
for example: if u start say packed piece of meat that's frozen or cold in cold water (say you left it in fridge in water overnight) then you attached sous vide, connected, but didnt start. you may have 2-3 hrs before water would get to unsafe temps, (if you put ice cubes, etc more time.. also if u salt meat inside it may buy u more time,
i am just thinking out loud, no idea how safe it is... but assuming you want to stay below 45f or something... then say u do all of this at 8am and want to cook meat for 2-3hrs at 125f (ribeye, for example), then you u may wanna start it about 12pm via wifi, and it will at least then tak 1 hr to get temp to 125, for example.. and then it'll be 3 hrs to cook.. so it'll be soorta ready by 4pm
now, all of this is hypothetical and untested, but idea is kinda there... what I do is diff though.. I cook my stuff 1-3 days ahead, and then leave sealed in fridge and when I want to cook steak, I take it out of the package when I 'walk' in home, and by the time i am ready too cook, it sits out for 15-30mi. Then, just preheat skillets and cook for 2-3min per side, on med heart, to get very nice crust and to heat it through. all the times of course will vary on skillet, thickness of steak, power of your burners, etc...
tl:dr - it's possible. but it has several caveats and may need to experiment ahead of time.
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Yes, they do make refrigerated models. For example, the $399 Figo, which you can program or turn on remotely, e.g. at work.
https://eatfigo.com/products/the-smart-sous-vide
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