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I've seen you comment a lot on sous vide in the past, is there a specific machine that you recommend?

(And then is there one you'd recommend if money was no object)

I own the Sansaire, but right now I'd recommend the new Anova one that comes with an app and is well-reviewed by Serious Eats.

http://anovaculinary.com/products/anova-precision-cooker

http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/new-anova-precision-cooke...

Do you know if they've released the android app yet? You can use it without (has a little wheel to set temp), but the monitoring and timing obviously don't work.

I don't know, unfortunately.

There is an android app on the google play marketplace, but it is not from the anova folks and it costs $2. I haven't purchased it, because I already have my own list of "if you're cooking foo, set the temperature to bar" commands in my (analog) recipe notebook.

Everything else about the newer anova is great. I have both a new-style and old-style (anova one) from them, and they're both cool. Now that I have the newer one with the adjustable clip, I intend to keep that in my kitchen for simple sous-vide stuff (steaks, chops, eggs, etc) and build an insulated enclosure out of a cooler for the One, so I can tackle bigger cooking projects.

Yeah, I'm really enjoying it as well. Have made some amazing eggs so far.

The app isn't out yet but the Bluetooth API is fairly simple: https://github.com/neilpa/circulate and I ended up hacking together a very basic app in node.js in about 3 hours.

I have the previous gen Anova, and it is great!

I own a Sansaire too and have heard a lot of good things about the Anova... have you had experience with both? Would you recommend the Anova as an upgrade from the Sansaire?

Whichever of Anova, Sansaire, and Polyscience is cheapest at the time.

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