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Post by alicechalmers on Jan 3, 2018 13:54:44 GMT -5
An Anova circulator was my Christmas gift and I'm just silly excited about it. Clearly, I have a kitchen appliance problem.
Do you have one? Do you use it? What's your favorite and least favorite thing about it?
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Post by Yogagirl on Jan 3, 2018 14:20:03 GMT -5
I don't get it. Is it like poaching all your food? I saw people on Amazon saying they cook steaks with it? Do you brown the steak first. I feel like an idiot.
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Post by alicechalmers on Jan 3, 2018 14:23:49 GMT -5
No, poaching is putting your food in water. For sous vide you put your food in a bag and then in water. For steak, you cook it via sous vide first and then sear it for browning. It offers very precise temperature control.
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 3, 2018 14:33:31 GMT -5
I would like one so I can make those bacon & gruyere sous vide egg bites that are outrageously expensive at Starbucks.
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Post by krisa on Jan 3, 2018 15:09:41 GMT -5
Scott bought one and was very excited to use it. I think the garbage man already picked it up.
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 3, 2018 15:24:02 GMT -5
I wanted one but figured I would get lazy and stop using it
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Post by kimm on Jan 3, 2018 19:23:03 GMT -5
I would like one so I can make those bacon & gruyere sous vide egg bites that are outrageously expensive at Starbucks.  I want one for the same reason, except I like the egg white and roasted red peppers one. SaveSave |
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Post by jen on Jan 4, 2018 7:42:17 GMT -5
Hubs uses his for steak with a pan sear about once a week and it's glorious. Roasts, too.
We've used it for chicken and it keeps everything juicy.
He used it for the extra turkey breast on Thanksgiving and it was better than the roasted.
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Post by kenkiki on Jan 4, 2018 12:35:43 GMT -5
Good friends have one and everything they have made is delicious. She makes a tuna confit that is SO good.
But the last thing I need is another kitchen appliance. Sad!
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 4, 2018 15:40:27 GMT -5
I spent a bit reading up on them and I see there are Sous Vide “ovens” and circulators are there ones that don’t circulate but look like the circulators?
Just trying to make sure because some say circulator and some that look the same don’t say it
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Post by Catamount on Jan 4, 2018 21:17:46 GMT -5
I spent a bit reading up on them and I see there are Sous Vide “ovens” and circulators are there ones that don’t circulate but look like the circulators? Just trying to make sure because some say circulator and some that look the same don’t say it We have a sous-vide controller that works with our regular crock pot, so it's just an extra little box rather than a full additional appliance. It's pretty much the only way we cook most meat. It's more forgiving of late arrivals from work than the crock pot, and everything is marvelously tender. |
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Post by Peanut on Jan 5, 2018 9:10:35 GMT -5
Scott bought one and was very excited to use it. I think the garbage man already picked it up. This is close to what would happen at my house, only it would sit in the deep corner of my pantry for a while before I eventually donated it to the local PTA Thrift Store. |
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 5, 2018 9:23:11 GMT -5
Bought one, had one on my Amazon wish list for a while now.
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Post by Sprockey on Jan 5, 2018 9:33:00 GMT -5
I can't even commit to an InstaPot |
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 6, 2018 21:15:57 GMT -5
Got an Anova and the app sucks... it looks nice but it has a problem where if you lose Bluetooth connection there is a chance the app once it reconnects resets the timer....
I set something for 24 hours and four hours later I get a notification that the cooking was done. Did some googling and saw others having this issue as well, people suggest just using a regular timer.
and the app spams the hell out of you once the timer does go off. I swipe it away and it keeps going off every 5 seconds...
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 7, 2018 16:37:17 GMT -5
Made a roast yesterday, let it cook for 24 hours, meat was tender and then I screwed it up by putting it in the broiler a bit too long and it dried it out.
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Post by alicechalmers on Jan 8, 2018 10:08:48 GMT -5
I've had a lot of work shifts lately so the only thing I made was bacon but it was freakishly amazing.
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Post by krisa on Jan 8, 2018 11:30:19 GMT -5
Got an Anova and the app sucks... it looks nice but it has a problem where if you lose Bluetooth connection there is a chance the app once it reconnects resets the timer.... I set something for 24 hours and four hours later I get a notification that the cooking was done. Did some googling and saw others having this issue as well, people suggest just using a regular timer. and the app spams the hell out of you once the timer does go off. I swipe it away and it keeps going off every 5 seconds... That is the random app that showed up on my phone That must be the one that Scott bought and subsequently threw away. He really wants one that works. |
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Post by Tpatt100 on Jan 8, 2018 11:38:20 GMT -5
It works it’s just the app that has problems. I checked online and there are numerous posts about it.
The app’s timer takes priority over the machine’s timer so if the app says the timer is off it resets the timer on the machine even though you used the app to set the timer
It happened to me three times on a 24 hour cooking cycle
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Post by jen on Jan 8, 2018 19:21:25 GMT -5
DH has the basic Anova and loves it
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I want one for the same reason, except I like the egg white and roasted red peppers one. 
