Update: This very popular deal is still available.
Amazon has
850W Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker Mini (2024 Model) for
$19.99.
Shipping is free with Prime or on $35+ orders.
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Product Description: - 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.
- Anova App (free/bluetooth connectivity only): Control your time and temp directly on the Anova app (bluetooth only).
- Anova App (subscription/Wifi 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 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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Community Reviews
This compact Anova sous vide cooker stands out as a cheap entry point for precise steak and meal prep cooking, with strong temperature control and reliable set and forget results. The comments highlight tender steaks, juicy chicken, ribs, and easy weeknight prep, and the small size makes it handy for travel or a regular pot. The main drawback is that this model has no buttons or display, so the phone app and Bluetooth are required, and support or subscription changes remain a concern. A solid low cost way to try sous vide if app control does not bother you.
The app-only design can still deliver precise temperature control for steak and chicken cooking.
Sous vide cooking can produce tender steaks by holding the set temperature and then finishing with a quick cast-iron pan or grill sear.
The compact mini format can work well for travel setups using ziplock bags and a normal pot at an Airbnb-style kitchen.
The cooker can support meal-prep workflows by letting chicken cook for about 1.5 hours and reheat later for the week.
The mini requires a phone app for control, which can be annoying because it forces phone use every time.
App support risk can turn the unit into a paperweight if Anova eventually kills the free app service for older models.
Connection problems can prevent full pairing with a phone or tablet, which makes the device frustrating to use.
Plastic-bag cooking can be a dealbreaker for households that avoid boiling food in plastic or refuse plastics in the dishwasher.
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I might get this for travel since I have an upcoming trip where I'll be staying at an airbnb type place with a kitchen (probably I would just use it with ziplock bags and a normal pot).
But it's definitely possible that anova could randomly discontinue support for it
If you don't need it to be light/compact you're probably better off just getting any random one with physical controls.
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I actually picked up 3 of these the last time it was $20. I think that was a little over a month ago.
Is this a glorified water boiler? Why would I want this over just turning on the stove?
I don't care enough to google this so feel free not to respond.
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Is this a glorified water boiler? Why would I want this over just turning on the stove?
I don't care enough to google this so feel free not to respond.
There are a ton of uses of a sous vide, and there are even cookbooks. Some people even do entire roasts in one. To each their own but just doing a perfect steak every time is good enough for me. My BBQ hardly gets any use now!
I have the Nano 3.0 (with controls) but bought 2 of these around Christmastime for gifts and both people LOVE them!
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I avoid this company like the plague now even though I currently own an Anova oven.
Wow really? That sounds like a really good use case. I've been trying the reverse searing method of oven at 250 until inside of steak is about 165 and then searing. Mixed results.
There are a ton of uses of a sous vide, and there are even cookbooks. Some people even do entire roasts in one. To each their own but just doing a perfect steak every time is good enough for me. My BBQ hardly gets any use now!
I have the Nano 3.0 (with controls) but bought 2 of these around Christmastime for gifts and both people LOVE them!
Appreciate the detailed response. Sounds like a much better alternative to reverse searing (low temp in oven with a meat thermometer, and then quick sear both sides.)
The only issue is my wife has been going nuts about health stuff and would not want to boil food in plastic. Already tossed out my awesome Ovo non-stick pans and anything teflon coated. Won't even let me put plastics in dishwasher.
More generally, aside from cooking meat to a very specific level of doneness, you can also just use it more similarly to a slow cooker if you want to I guess, although I normally use a pressure cooker in those situations.
It is probably the single most "set it and forget it" type cooking method though and perhaps even more than a slow cooker it's something you can safely leave running while you're out which can be quite convenient.
if you're concerned about microplastics it might not be ideal
Wow really? That sounds like a really good use case. I've been trying the reverse searing method of oven at 250 until inside of steak is about 165 and then searing. Mixed results.
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