Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought as a gift for our son for Christmas. He loves it. He’s been going a little crazy cooking with it. He made us some steaks and the tasted amazing. High end restaurant quality.

Bought this to do prime rib. It worked amazingly well. The possibilities are limitless. Wifi connection is a little wonky, but always displays the temp and time left correctly.

Works well. I used ziplock bags and worked fine. But will use vacuum sealed bags next time to see if it’s better.

It works just as described. Just takes too long to heat up a steak, but when it is ready and you follow the directions it makes a great steak

In the world of cooking trends one of the most popular today is immersion, or Sous Vide cooking. Immersion cooking works by circulating hot water around food sealed in bags with as much air as possible forced out of the bags. This allows for food to be cooked at a lower temperature for a longer period, trapping juices and other flavoring in the food and allowing for every even cooking. Instead of overcooking the outside of the meat to the get the middle done, immersion cooking gently warms the entire piece to one uniform temperature. Meats cooked this way are often then finished by quickly searing on a hot skillet or grill to get the look, flavor, and texture that most people find appealing. Anova has emerged as one of the leaders in the area of Sous Vide cooking with an excellent set of first generation products that appealed to different levels of users. The new Anova Precision Cooker is the next generation of cookers from Anova and sits in the middle of their product offerings between the nano and the pro. This device has more power than the previous generation – up 100 watts to 1000 and moves 8 liters of water per minute. It is also noticeably smaller. Not quite as compact as the nano, but offers more power, more water flow, a stainless steel skirt, and WiFi connectivity. It is also waterproof against splashes, which is important when dealing with pots of water. Anova cookers, unlike some others, have manual touch controls with a display or app control. The display shows things such as the current temp, remaining cook time, and other details. Personally, I like this over requiring an app and a smart phone to work. As a WiFi attached device, it does have app control that can be run from anywhere, even if you are away from the house or out of range of Bluetooth. The app offers control over the cooker as well as a large selection of crowd-sourced recipes. For testing, I tried the basic bone-in skin on chicken breast with the middle option for doneness (150.1 degrees for 1 hour). When selected, the app will automatically send the target temp and time to the cooker and away it goes! The chicken was seasoned with salt and pepper and placed into ziplock bags. I used the water displacement method to get the air out – just leave one corner of the bag open and submerge the rest, working the air out of the bag before sealing it just above the water line. Be sure to do this in a different pot or before preheating the water! It heats up water pretty quickly and then holds it to that .1 or so degree of variation. One thing to note – this model does make more noise than the nano or some other brands. Many cookers sound like an aquarium pump, but this unit makes a bit of a higher pitched motor noise. With the higher water volume motor and smaller size, the motor has to move faster, and this changes the pitch and noise level a bit. It’s not terrible and blends into the background in a busy kitchen, but if you hear a bit more motor buzz that is expected for this model. I clipped the bags to the sides of the pot and it’s time to cook! After an hour in the hot water bath the chicken was done and the sear finish was done using a cast iron skillet and canola oil. The chicken was extremely juicy, the texture was good (not mushy or overly chewy) and the finish on the skin was crispy. The seasoning could have been heavier and it will take some trial and error to dial in the cooking/finishing method and the seasonings to taste. Overall, this is a great product and has the power and features to please anyone who is looking for a next level up immersion cooker or to get started with cooking this way.

This works as advertised. So far, I have used it to cook chicken, beef and pork. It works particularly well at keeping chicken moist and not overcooking pork. Great appliance.

We haven’t used this yet, but I gifted it to my husband as our neighbor has the older version. He swears by it! My son says when he goes there the meat is always incredible.

Finally got this dois vide aftervso many years of wanting one. Made the best steak ever. Also asparagus, chicken and eggs.

This Sous Vide works great! Next year I'll probably add the upgraded one when it come on sale again but I absolutely love this one!

I made the most delicious tender steaks. We used the soya vide and then battered and fried the most perfect peppercorn steaks. Would 100% recommend!!

I purchased this one as a gift for my daughter and her chef husband for next Christmas they have borrowed ours from time to time and sure they will enjoy having their own

I love cooking with my sous vide. I wish I would have discovered it sooner. It makes the best steaks I’ve ever had. It also makes the most tender chicken.

Bought two of these as gifts for son in laws. They like them and now I want one. Seems to be easy to use and no mess!

The unit powered up fine, WiFi connected following instructions on App (IOS). App would receive current readings from the unit, but the unit would not respond to settings made from the App. Kept receiving error message so had to enter setting on the unit directly.

I have to learn how to cook sous vide. it takes a full pot of water and somehow got disconnect off of wifi while cooking. it's an adjustment. This is only the sous vide cooker, still needs to purchase bags a possibly a sous vide container,

This thing is awesome! Hands down this is the best cooking tool I have ever bought. I highly recommend.

Easy connection to my iPhone via wifi. Can control remotely and check on the time remaining for my recipe.

Works like it is supposed to. These are generally sturdy. We use them commercially - which is a little bit beyond what they really should be doing.

First time we have this technique of cooking. Interesting, and the results were pretty good.

Set it. Time it. And come back in 2hrs. Meat cooks near perfect. Its off few degrees but dam close. Been using it for a while. No issue so far.