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Bringing Sous Vide to the Home Cook

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Re: Bringing Sous Vide to the Home Cook

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Does anyone know who had this sous vide stick design first, this (Anova) or the nomiku( http://www.nomiku.com/ )? It is possible that they both were designed in parallel but I would bet one came out before the other.

Could be wrong but I think the Sansaire came first. Their kickstarter finished in Sept 2013. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seattlefoodgeek/sansair...

The first Nomiku Kickstarter finished in July of 2012: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nomiku/nomiku-bring-sou...

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Why not simply let the factory do it for you? I foresee a market for prepared sous vide meats that are sealed well enough to store for weeks or even months on the shelf. Goodbye salmonella. From what I've read, this is how restaurants are already doing it.

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My perfect Sous Vide machine would be a Mellow[0] with an API. I want to throw some eggs (or other breakfast items) in the Mellow at night, it flips to a refrigerate option, and then hooks up with my alarm (physical or on phone) to make sure the eggs start cooking a few minutes before I wake up, so they're perfect when I roll out of bed. Then I'll empty the machine, throw dinner in, and it'll automatically be ready by the time I get home. Even if it means throwing the steak in the pan for 5 mins, I'm ok with that.

I almost bought one, but no API makes these way less awesome.

[0] http://cookmellow.com/meet-mellow/

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My perfect Sous Vide machine would be a Mellow[0] with an API. I want to throw some eggs (or other breakfast items) in the Mellow at night, it flips to a refrigerate option, and then hooks up with my alarm (physical or on phone) to make sure the eggs start cooking a few minutes before I wake up, so they're perfect when I roll out of bed. Then I'll empty the machine, throw dinner in, and it'll automatically be ready b…

They haven't put out any updates since May, it seems. Do we have any idea if they're still going to manage to ship in "early 2015"?

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If you'd like your perfectly-cooked steak in 20 minutes, not 2 hours, try Pantelligent (note: co-founder). Video here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hevans/pantelligent-int... Unlike sous-vide cooking, Pantelligent is not limited to things you can cook in a plastic bag, doesn't take forever to get to steady-state temperature equilibrium, and most sous-vide recipes encourage you to finish in a pan anyway! Inste…

thanks for the self promoted informercial, but you may want to keep positioning as a companion to a sous vide machine, not as better than. yours is a very different product that does not produce the same output as a sous vide solution. ex: trying cooking a hard boiled egg to specific consistency, or a delicate piece of fish to the same consistency and internal temperature (with no searing) in the pantelligent. hell,…

Fish is absolutely great with Pantelligent; in fact, salmon is probably my #1 favorite.

Eggs (not specifically hard boiled -- huh?) are really excellent too. Low temperature scrambled eggs, omelettes, higher temperature fried eggs. It's a pan -- really versatile.

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Does anyone know who had this sous vide stick design first, this (Anova) or the nomiku( http://www.nomiku.com/ )? It is possible that they both were designed in parallel but I would bet one came out before the other.

Weren't they all evolved from the chemistry lab immersion circulators that sous-vide chefs originally used?

http://www.coleparmer.com/Product/PolyScience_Standard_Immer...

http://www.polyscienceculinary.com/sousvide-thermal-circulat...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

thanks for the self promoted informercial, but you may want to keep positioning as a companion to a sous vide machine, not as better than. yours is a very different product that does not produce the same output as a sous vide solution. ex: trying cooking a hard boiled egg to specific consistency, or a delicate piece of fish to the same consistency and internal temperature (with no searing) in the pantelligent. hell,…

Fish is absolutely great with Pantelligent; in fact, salmon is probably my #1 favorite. Eggs (not specifically hard boiled -- huh?) are really excellent too. Low temperature scrambled eggs, omelettes, higher temperature fried eggs. It's a pan -- really versatile.

i guess you didnt understand my point. you do not obtain the same result in a pan as you do via sous vide. one does not replace the other.

have you ever used a sous vide machine? if you had, you'd probably better understand the point im making.

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There's enough evidence that plastics leak harmful chemicals into our food that I don't want to eat anything that's been sitting in a plastic bag in warm water for hours on end. No thanks.

Not eating out, in your case? I'm no industry insider but from what I hear sous vide )and therefore plastic) is rampant.
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