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Father's Day Sale - Get $70 AUD off with coupon "ANOVADAD"
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Anova Precision Cooker $149 BT / $219 Wi-Fi Delivered [Father's Day $70 off]
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Can't trust the post these days…
Father's Day in USA Is 18 June
This is OzBargain, not YankeeBargain…
*Valid for AU customers only
That's how long they'll take to ship it based on my previous experience.
I bought one for a friend and it took less than a week from ordering to arrive.
Was it during the sale? They were $90 and $159 back then.
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fathers day??? u mean Christmas special.
Valid for Australian customers only, but the temperature display is deg. F, and using the US Father's Day date.
Looks like a nifty device though, if rather inefficient (much heat loss, would be best to wrap the pot in a blanket…).
You can change it to celcius in the settings
No doubt. They should make an effort to show that on the special Au-only sales website though.
Don't use a pot, use a polycarbonate tub.
Some people have been using eskies to put the cooking bag into. They then enclose the top with foil.
Have one of these, can confirm they are great - wifi version can be monitored offsite. Not as easy as just frying a steak or piece of fish, can make a perfectly cooked steak with this though!
Looking to buying one but what is the benefit of being able to monitor this offsite? Pardon my ignorance.
there isnt really, unless you want to cook a roast for 12 hours and change the temperature at hour 6. Otherwise,i think its mainly a gimmick
Appreciate that reply… will probably buy the bluetooth one.
Have the BT version and never really use it. I think might be handy for the timer though.
could set to cook at say 63C and once done hold at 60C
I went with Bluetooth and saved the change….. Wifi seemed a bit over the top…… And not much wattage difference
Just get the BT one. I do't even use it. Just manually set the temp and away you go.
Tempted to get this, what are people buying/using to vacuum seal their bags?
Apparently, you can use ziplock bags… haven't done it myself, but I was looking at it on YouTube last week.
I use zip lock bags + straw for beef, very carefully! Not sure I'd dare for chicken though…
Ziplock bags + water displacement method.
The claim is that you can use a zip lock bag (leave a hole and immerse to get the air out), but I found the results in a vacuum bag considerably better.
Kmart have a cheap one for $60 that works well enough, although it seems to struggle if you have any sort of liquids in the bag too.
Kenji has a good video demonstrating the zip lock immersion method though and its a perfectly adequate method for sous vide.
Came to say about the ziplock immersion method… and now have just commented to give you an upvote.
Seriously love Kenji and Serious Eats!
I really hate this website
I have the WiFi version. Good if you want to monitor the cook away from home or if you want to start a cook say 2 hours before you get home from work.
Ziploc branded bags provide a good seal for cooks less than 12 hours, anything longer you will probably need a vacuum food sealer. I got my vacuum from an Aldi sale for $60.
Can you set a timer on the bt model? I.e fill up a tub with water before you head off the work and tell it to turn on to x degrees at 3pm?
See I don't get this. Doesn't it mean your meat will be just sitting there in the water bath at room temperature from 8am (or whatever) til 3pm?
It was more to get the water warmed up so it's ready to just chuck your food in as soon as you get home.
I thought about leaving the food in an ice bath and then letting it warm up after a few hours but not sure how well that would work.
I suppose. Now that I think about it, if you use a frankencooler as your vessel, then you could conceivably put an ice pack or something to keep it through the day, like an esky, and then just use the Anova to "defrost" and cook - although obviously that will come with the corresponding energy use.
@zzyss: I seem to recall a kickstarter a while back for a sous vide machine with a chilling function, for exactly this use.
@abb:
That reminds me, I read an article once on Lifehacker, I think, which claimed the Anova could chill down to 4 degrees or something. But that's not in the spec so the writer must've been confused.
However, just Googling this, it seems there is a function built in on Anova that monitors the temperature of an ice bath, and sends you a notification (which is where Wifi model comes in handy) when the temperature gets into the "danger zone" so you can set it to start cooking. It then can heat up the water fast enough to avoid spoilage (depending on vessel size and amount of water natch).
Hot water from the tap and then 10 minutes to get it up to temp.
Here's the article claiming you can use an Anova to chill wine:
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/03/your-immersion-circula…@zzyss: Yeah, looks like the lifehacker "author" was confused, the reddit post they like shows a bunch of ice blocks in a bucket. It's just stirring the cold water.
Yep, and you definitely don't want to be doing that.
Ice bath!
I dont think you can do this with BT model. The wifi version lets you access it from a phone though and it doesnt have to be on the same network (i.e. you can be on mobile data). If you have the Anova on (but not cooking) and connected to your wifi, you can then just start it heating at whatever time you like with your phone. You need to make an account to do this too, which upset a few people recently.
I think the Wifi version also used to have an ice bath function but they removed it, apparently it might be coming back though I read somewhere.
The gist of that was you can setup and ice water bath with your meat in as well and it would periodically circulate the water to keep it cool enough. It monitors the temperature until it reaches a point that it would be unsafe (i.e. bacteria starts growing) so it then starts heating the water to the recipe cooking temperature.
I've done the ice bath once before, it worked well and is probably the best use for the WiFi version. Being able to start the water heating before you get home is also good but just using hot water from the tap gets you most of the way and it doesn't take the Anova long to get it the rest of the way.
The ice bath would work fine, I did it quite hastily in the morning before work and the ice managed to keep the temperature sub 4°C until after lunch time. If you were to use chilled water, ice and an esky it would last even longer.
I just tried the code earlier today and it still worked. Tried again just now though and it didn't go through. Did I just miss it?
I think it may be expired
That's over 3 months away…