Walmart [walmart.com] has
800W Anova Culinary Bluetooth App Controlled Sous Vide Precision Cooker Mini Lite w/ Optional Wifi Subscription (Black) for
$38.
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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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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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heh, funny. i was just thinking logically... I guess, logic prevails sometimes....
As for it being underpowered, I disagree. I used the 800 watt v1 for 7+ years and it performed fine -- even for a tank filled with 20+ lbs of chuck and round (132°F for 16-24hrs). The trick is to fill the container with HOT tap water, which is already close to your desired temperature. Then the Anova doesn't have to heat the water and only work on maintaining the temperature. Indeed, the heater is rarely on, which I can tell from the wattmeter it's plugged into. For temperature maintenance, 1000/1200 watts has no appreciable advantage over 800 watts.
Here's refrigerated model, the $399 Figo.
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I've been regularly cooking SV since the OG Anova and never had a need for wifi that I couldn't easily solve by timing my cooks and doing a bit of planning. Or just setting things up and telling a friend/roommate/gf/kid to "push the button at xyz time".
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1000w electric tea kettles do just fine boiling water in a few minutes. 800w will melt 5 pounds of ice in about 45 minutes and bring a 2.5 gallon tank from 32f to 130 in about another half hour. (based on the energy needed to melt ice and heat water, not just pulling numbers out of my kitty)
800w SV sticks struggle when you have large and uninsulated containers, but in an insulated cooler they're perfectly usable.
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I have used a souvide for 11 years and use it 1-2 times a week and just don't trust this unit.
Just don't update the app (or device firmware?), eh? Should still work using older version of the app...
"They sold the device with bluetooth so I'd think they'd have to refund anyone that bought one if they leave no way for them to use that function just because they want subscribers.".
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Don't pay for something that requires a monthly fee to function.
As for leeching, it won't happen as long as the bag is boil safe. Freezer bags, for example, will work just fine -- especially since your unlikely to ever go pass 180°F, and that's only for vegetables. The most common use is for beef, which generally won't go above 140°F. Even chicken breast need not go above 150°F (I prefer 145°F). Finally, food safe plastic bags really have nothing to leech.
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