| Product Description: | The Anova Precision Cooker Mini Lite helps you take your culinary skills to the next level. This amazing precision cooker makes it easy to achieve restaurant-quality cooking results at home. It may be used manually or you connect to your phone with Bluetooth, so you can cook amazing meals with the touch of a button and monitor progress from another room. We designed the Anova Precision Cooker Mini Lite so everyone can cook like a pro, just set the temperature and the precision cooker will do the rest. Get creative and choose from over 1,000 recipes created for home cooks of every skill level by award-winning chefs, with simple directions to walk through each recipe with ease. Get inspired and cook legendary meals with the Cooker Mini Lite. Results: Sous Vide offers the most precise cook times and temperatures to produce the most tender and perfectly cooked steak possible. Easy: Three easy steps: 1) Attach your cooker to a water filled pot. 2) Set the time and temperature 3) Seal the food, add it to the pot, and press start on the app. Value: Our most affordable cooker ever. This machine costs the same, if not less than, 1 night out at a steakhouse. Cook: Once you've conquered Sous Vide steak, you have plenty of power to cook perfect sous vide meals, big or small. Cook meat, seafood, eggs, vegetables, and more. Vacuum sealed bags, silicone bags, and zip locked bags are all compatible with Sous Vide Anova App (free/bluetooth connectivity only): Control your time and temp directly on the Anova app. Anova App (subscription/Wi-fi connectivity): For $1.99 a month or $9.99 a year (cancel subscription at anytime), get access to the ultimate sous vide educational content and cooking guides. Recipes from professional chefs and the food nerd community feed directly to your Precision Cooker Mini Lite at the touch of a button. Continuous access to your personal recipes and cook history, ready to revisit or share with your friends and family. Two week free trial included. |
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Here is a link to the website along with FAQ info about this cooker:
https://anovaculinary.c
I had a sous vide cooker for many years but have moved away from using it so much and now am doing more reverse-sear cooking where I start at a low temperature in the oven and then sear at the end. I use a remote thermometer to monitor the temperature of the food in the oven so it doesn;t overcook. The low cooking temperatures will be close to 200F, so it's not as foolproof as using the sous vide which can precisely regulate the temp you select.
But, one advantage of the reverse sear is that the initial low temp cooking dries out the surface of the meat making it easier to sear, whereas you always have to wipe down the sous vide cooked food before searing.
But, with recent concerns about micro-plastics in food, I am not sure if the plastic I use in the recloseable zip-loc style freezer bags is entirely safe when using it for sous-vide cooking. I have not seen or read definitive evidence either way, so I decided to reduce cooking in plastic until there is more scientific evidence on the subject.
EDIT: The general consensus is that the polyethylene plastic used in such recloseable zip-loc-style bags does not release significant harmful chemicals when used at the temperatures involved with sous vide cooking.
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Nvm. Looks like no subscription for Bluetooth control
It looks like there is no subscription for Bluetooth control.
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Here is a link to the website along with FAQ info about this cooker:
https://anovaculinary.c
I had a sous vide cooker for many years but have moved away from using it so much and now am doing more reverse-sear cooking where I start at a low temperature in the oven and then sear at the end. I use a remote thermometer to monitor the temperature of the food in the oven so it doesn;t overcook. The low cooking temperatures will be close to 200F, so it's not as foolproof as using the sous vide which can precisely regulate the temp you select.
But, one advantage of the reverse sear is that the initial low temp cooking dries out the surface of the meat making it easier to sear, whereas you always have to wipe down the sous vide cooked food before searing.
But, with recent concerns about micro-plastics in food, I am not sure if the plastic I use in the recloseable zip-loc style freezer bags is entirely safe when using it for sous-vide cooking. I have not seen or read definitive evidence either way, so I decided to reduce cooking in plastic until there is more scientific evidence on the subject.
EDIT: The general consensus is that the polyethylene plastic used in such recloseable zip-loc-style bags does not release significant harmful chemicals when used at the temperatures involved with sous vide cooking.
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This is a good price..
I don't mind app access.
But to require an app to even use basic functions is a deal breaker for me
This is a good price..
I don't mind app access.
But to require an app to even use basic functions is a deal breaker for me
I have the nicer model and bought this as well. Works similarly but I like controlling it on device. I wouldn't spend another $70 to do that though
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App only temp/timer controls does kill this for me, though. On-demand obsolescence is not my idea of good design. That said, for this price, it's probably worth it even if the app is only supported for a year or 2 (cause it'll probably stay functional for a couple years beyond that).