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New ultra-low-cost sous vide cooker controller.

MSRadell

By MSRadell
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Martin Fisher

Martin Fisher

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It's actually been around a couple years.

Just $80 more buys an immersion circulator.

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btbyrd

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I started out with one of these about a year and a half ago, but quickly upgraded to a circulator and haven't looked back. This was before the recent round of cheap circulators came out, so I think it's a no-brainer to spend the extra $ to get a proper setup. The big drawback is that the temperature control isn't very precise (you can't cook eggs how you want them) and you have to come up with creative ways to keep your bags from sitting on the bottom of your crock pot or rice cooker. It's not a bad device, but it's nowhere near as good as a circulator is. Even if you're just wanting to try out low temp cooking, it's probably more advisable to start with an Anova or something... fewer headaches, more precision.

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