Business Insider by Megan Willett Jun. 1, 2016
For starters, I'm terrible at planning my meals ahead of time, and that's exactly what a sous-vide requires. If you want to set up your precision cooker to prepare dinner while you're at work, you need to first place the food in an ice bath to keep it cool. The Anova has an app that alerts you when once the water gets too warm and it's time to start cooking your meat, eggs, or veggies.
But that's a lot of work. Unlike a crock pot, which only requires you to throw in ingredients and set how long they should cook, with a sous-vide, you need to set up the ice bath, ready your Anova (and make sure it's connected to Bluetooth and WiFi), then keep an eye on the app to make sure your food starts cooking at the right time.
Plus, it's a slow process — recipes call for one to four hours to sous vide a chicken breast, while a typical chicken recipe calls for about half an hour in the oven or less than 15 minutes on the stove. I want a tool that helps me cook faster so that I can eat sooner; a sous-vide slows me down.
Using a sous-vide cooker also means you lose the experience of cooking. You don't get to smell, taste or tinker the way you can when cooking on a stove or grill. This sensory deprivation while the food sits in roiling water may not bother everyone, but I certainly didn't like it.
However, there are many positive aspects of a sous-vide cooker. It allows you to cook things at a consistent temperature, which ensures your food is perfectly tender and safe to eat. It can make amazing steak, great chicken, and even helped me make the most perfect poached egg of my life.
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