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

This is an excellent immersion circulator for the price. I think of it as a "starter" immersion circulator for sous vide cooking. I wanted to try this method of cooking, but did not want to make a big investment. This cooker works great. It does what it is supposed to do. The only downside is you have to be connected to the internet and use your phone to control it. The temperature control is spot on, and it is not noisy at all.

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This only has 1 button and only connects to an app via Bluetooth. Open the app, set the temp and done. You don’t need any other features in a sous vide machine. That’s the whole point of these things, set it and forget it. Verified steady accurate temps using my thermoworks probes. This thing works perfectly. Is the Bluetooth connection spotty some times? Yes. But all Bluetooth is! Soon as you loose connection it doesn’t like to reconnect but car stereos do the same thing. Close the app and reopen it and all is solved. But honestly never have I needed to open the app a second time after setting the temp. Pressing the top button stops the cook, but doesn’t resume it fyi. Either way, works great. Got it on sale for $20. Worth it 100%

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

An absolute steal for $20. Probably still a steal at $40. At that price point, I was expecting some kind of functional compromise, and yet: Brought my largest metal pot of water to temperature in 30m and kept it there. That's all I really needed it to do. Sous vide revolutionizes slow-cooking meats, I can't imagine making a brisket or duck breast without this anymore. It's fantastic that Anova is pricing this in a way that puts delicious, healthy, low effort, high reliability cooking into everyone's reach. I thought I would be annoyed by the lack of a display and necessity of yet another app, but the app is well done (see what I did there?) and ultimately I would rather check my phone than walk into my kitchen anyway. I wish it came with a safe, sanitary storage case, but I can survive without that.