Anova - Precision Cooker Wifi - Black

I’ve been in the sous vide game since 2016 with Anova’s first gen precision cooker. If you haven’t cooked with a sous vide before, it does meet the hype and the cat’s meow. But just meh if you already have the 1st gen Anova. More on this later. Pros: • Super easy to get the best results • Fast heating • App connectivity Cons: • A bit more plastic than the first gen • High pitch whine • Not a huge improvement over the first gen My first experience with a sous vide was mind blowing. After watching videos and photos of perfectly cooked steaks, I knew I had to get one and im glad I went with Anova. Super easy to use app that helps decide what temps and how long to cook your proteins with. I love cooking my prime ribeyes at 129 degrees for 1-2 hours (depending on thickness). Then using a 500 degree hot cast iron skillet with avocado oil (high smoke point) to give it a nice sear. My steaks are now on par with $100 steaks you can order at a steakhouse for a fraction of the price. I do recommend this 2nd gen Anova precision cooker to anyone looking to get into sous vide. I still prefer my 1st gen Anova over the latest version. The 1st gen had mostly metal parts, quieter water circulator, and more robust clamp. The 2nd gen does sport a shorter design and a higher wattage for faster water heating.

The Anova Precision Cooker is a top-of-the-line sous vide (immersion) cooker at a reasonable price. It’s design and ease of use are impressive, and the Anova website has a blog with lots of helpful tips. We have made reverse-seared steaks in the past, without a device like this. We made sous vide ribeye steak with the Anova Precision Cooker, and the steak came out great! We look forward to trying recipes for sous vide soft cooked eggs, lava cake, salmon and more. Pros: - Beautiful, ergonomic design with stainless steel to protect the heating coil and circulator assembly. Solid construction. - Easy to use; digital readout with intuitive controls. - Adjusts easily with clamp to most any pot or sous vide water container, with adjustable height for water level. - Ability to cook many different foods in vacuum bags, Ziploc bags, or Mason jars. Cook eggs in their shells directly in the water bath. - Bluetooth connection to iPhone or Android phone allows you to control the sous vide cooker. Free Anova app. - App has a good selection of recipes that are easy to follow. Cons: - As with any sous vide cooker, this requires patience. The slow process of heating food to a precise temperature is what makes the method so good.

Do you like cooking? Do you want to have the best steak of your life? Buy this! Whats in the box: The cooker, a mount for almost any pot and a small getting started guide. NO BAGS, you must provide your own sous vide bags. Setup: While optional to set up the wifi, you really should as the app is where this shines. It only took me a few minutes to set up the wifi and the app. Use: This is a very easy device to use and set up is simple. You mount the cooker to your pot, fill up the pot with water, throw in your food and wait. The app lets you search for recipes, and immediately send those settings to the cooker, so you don't have to do anything other than press start. great! If you do not want to use the app, the buttons (I say buttons, really just a touch screen) are easy to use. results: the most tender steak I've ever eaten. Seriously the results were amazing. Perfectly cooked and I didn't have to worry about over cooking at all. So far I have only cooked steak, and its probably worth the cost alone just for steak. I'm looking forward to trying chicken as well. Cons: When I first set up the cooker, I got an error message that the impeller was stuck. I followed the instructions on line to get it working. It was easy to do, but a little un-nerving that out of the box I got an error. It did cook fine for over 2 hours, and the water heated up quite quickly. The noise is the other con. While not loud, it is definitely noticeable. Noticeable enough you probably don't want to be in the same room as the high pitched noise will get annoying after a while. Overall: If you are serious about cooking, get this. It will open a whole new world of cooking.

This Anova precision cooker is truly a great Sous Vide. It can adjust to fit any size pot and has plenty of power to both circulate and heat water to the specific temperature required to cook to perfection for the entire family. Because the sous vide is able to maintain specific temperatures the water is able to slowly bring food to the perfect temperature without overcooking the outside - this process takes longer than cooking in an oven, but it is the only want to reach a flawless temperature throughout while keeping the moisture (and flavor) inside. The phone app does an excellent job of providing quick access to recipes from meat, to eggs, to veggies - it's all right there. And when you connect the app to the Precision Cooker, you will receive notifications when the water has reached the desired temperature, or when the cooking timer expires. Anova has truly done an excellent job at making Sous Vide cooking accessible to cooks of all experience levels. Seriously take your cooking to the next level! Try this sous vide! You will be blown away by how tender and delicious all of your food can be.

This tool is a must in the kitchen! I absolutely love it! I would say that I am a fairly decent cook. I have made some great meals but even I slip occasionally and cook something for too long. Take porch chops for example. There is a fine line between under cooked and over cooked. That is where this precision cooker comes in! Simply attach the cooker on the side of a pot and fill the pot with water, ensuring that the water level is adequate. Plug the cooker in and touch the screen to make adjustments. The screen allows you to start/stop the cooker, adjust the temperature, and even set a timer. Once the cooker temperature is set, you mash start and watch the magic happen. The cooker constantly circulates water so that your food is evenly cooked no mater where it is inside the pot. The screen on the cooker updates constantly allowing you to know the exact temperature of the water. Once the target temperature is reached, simply place your seasoned food in a vacuum sealed bag or zip locked bag with the air removed. It is that simple. The first time I used it I cooked my pork chops for an hour. Once they were cooked I removed them from the bags, seared them on the stove for a few seconds on either side, and what I had was the MOST juicy, evenly cooked pork chop I have ever cooked! See the included photos! This precision cooker also connects to wifi! I know that may seem like a dumb feature, but it is actually really handy! Imagine prepping your precision cooker prior to leaving for your child's sports practice. If you know a rough estimate of when you'll be home, you can fire up the cooker from your smart phone and have it cooking while your gone. The app gives you instructions on what temperature to cook your food and how long to cook it for the desired tenderness. It even alerts you when your cooker is done! The only issue I had with the cooker was with pairing it to a wifi router. For some strange reason, it would not pair with a 2.4ghz router at one location I attempted to use it. Fast forward to when I got home, the cooker connected with no trouble. Not exactly sure why, but it works now. All in all, this is an awesome tool, especially for those people who may not be as good at judging when food is cooked. It is almost impossible to burn your food or over cook it. The water stays the proper temperature the entire time. Buy it! You will love it!

This is our first precision cooker to cook food using "Sous Vide" method of cooking.If you don't know what that means just google it :). So, the best part that I like about this method is that you can't overcook your meat or vegetables. Anova's app makes the cooking even more simple as it gives a huge number of recipes and exact preparation/cook time for them. Once you have found the recipe that you want to try, u can send the time and temperature settings to the cooker. We have tried poached eggs, salmon, chicken, vegetables with it and every time have got good results. The design of this is great. It does not take too much space in the kitchen and is easy to clamp on most of our cooking pots. This gives us flexibility to use the pan based on the amount of food we are cooking. It is made of poly carbonate and stainless steel and looks great. The display resolution is good and you roll the illuminated blue wheel to set the temperature. The only con, which really is a con of "Sous Vide" method rather than of this cooker, is that some of the recipes take too long (more than 2 hours).

First time for me to use one of these precise cookers. I was skeptical cooking bin a bag especially with BPA so I bought a baking bag that was BPA free. I looked up a recipe on the Anova app and picked a steak dish. Easy prep easy cook came out nice and tender and juicy. See photos. The only issue I had was linking the unit to my phone. I have Google phone pretty new. I ended up contacting customer service. It took me 3 tries to get it linked. After that controls were easy to use. Unit heater the water and circulated the water constantly. When it hit the correct temp my app indicated so. Timer ran through and it was done. I just had to flash sear the outside for appearance and flavor garnish and serve. I would recommend this item. Only con was linking the unit to my phone. Happy cooking..

Been in the market for a Sous Vide for a while but wasn't sure what I wanted or if I needed one so I held off. So glad the Anova Precision Cooker now resides in my kitchen. We do a lot of Chicken in our house and so far we are two for two on our cooks. Chicken has come out super juicy and tender both times. As far setup, I downloaded the app on my phone and added the device with no issue whatsoever. Not even a hiccup. Simply hit add device and followed the directions and before I knew it, I was able to control my Anova with my phone. Being able to monitor your cook is something I never knew I needed and glad this does this. When it comes to temperature, this unit holds the water temp at exactly what you set it for. As you can see in my pic, I have the unit set at 140. You may also notice my thermometer that I used to test the temp is not top of the line but the temp was right there showing 139.7 which held at that temp as long as I kept the unit in there. Cleaning the unit is not hard at all. Can't really find any negatives as everything about my experience with this has been positive. Being new to the Sous Vide world I can not claim to be an expert but I can tell everyone that my cooks have been my best according to my wife. For anyone looking to up their cooking game, and want a smart gadget in their kitchen, you will not go wrong with this unit. Only problem you may find is you will want to find more recipes to use with this but the Anova app has you covered with their recipes so once again, this is an overall win.