Anova CulinarySous Vide Precision Cooker Nano 2.0

This item is so easy to use and your meat comes out perfect at the temperature you set it at. This is what I use every time to cook my steaks with and then finish it off with a reverse sear on my grill. Whether it's steak or chicken, I lather up the meat with olive oil and my favorite rub then set the temperature and timer and let it do its thing. Great product.

Never thought I'd be using a device like this - I prefer my BBQ grill for cooking just about everything, including my mixed drinks... After learning the art of reverse searing my steaks, I heard people talk about this Sous Vide method of cooking and then searing to finish. Alright, I'm up for something new. Packaging reminds me of something Apple would do - elegant and well designed packaging, yet simplistic. Beyond the packaging, out of the box, I downloaded the app to control the device - pairing was nearly instant - took less than a second to find and pair - it sends a, presumably, random temperature reading to the device for you to verify on your phone to insure proper pairing.First up, some eggs - enjoy a nice hard boiled egg for lunch - or breakfast or anytime for that matter. I was offered a range of cooking options - the app does an amazing job of telling you the pros/cons of each setting, allowing you to quickly determine the finished result you wanted - in my case, I stayed generic at 160 degrees for the eggs - once you choose to start the routine, it immediately starts the device and heating the water - reporting in near real-time the temperature of the water - once reached, stage 2, add the eggs and it continues a precise timer countdown to completion. Also - if your water level is low - it detects and warns you to add water (or remove if too much).This evening will be the steaks - but for now, I am still enjoying amazingly perfect hard boiled eggs without having to stand over the stove for a minute. This device is a bargain for the quality and results you get - highly recommend - anyone, chef or not, can use it successfully!

I thought I had the perfect smoked chicken in my charcoal smoker. When done to the proper temperature, the breast would be moist and a dark smoky bark would form. But I experimented with the Anova cooker.All of the whole chicken sous vide recipes called for spatchcock, but I kept my chicken whole in the zip lock bag for 3 hours at 150 F. Then into the charcoal smoker for about 1 1/2 hours until a nice dark brown formed.The big difference is that the moisture does lock into the bird. Even the wings were still moist, and the breast was moist and fork tender. Also, the seasoning was more even throughout the meat.It's different from 4 hours in the smoker without sous vide. Is sous vide smoked chicken better? I would say yes for most people. If you like a strong smoky bark, then straight smoker is probably better for you. But if you want a mild smoke flavor, tender, moist and evenly seasoned, then sous vide is better.And the Anova is super easy to use and does the job well.

Buen material y de una alta calidad para usarlo de muchas maneras en distintas comidas es muy facil de controlar desde la app con adicional costo pero solo 1.99 al mes. Lo recomiendo bastante.The product is very good. Made of good, high-quality material, it's easy to use in many different ways, and it's easy to control from the app. It costs an additional fee, but only 1.99 a month. I highly recommend it.

As far as the sous vide, for immersion cooking, I'm perfectly happy with it. It works perfectly, although personally keeping it to 800 watts like the old non-nano version had would have been preferable to me.Before I purchased this unit, I had an opportunity to try out my co-worker's Wancle 850 watt sous vide just to see if I wanted to get into the immersion cooking game, so I have a side-by-side comparison. I'll list pros and cons of each later.As far as Bluetooth connectivity, it suffers. While the unit is still running, I've had it drop connection when my phone is still within 15 feet (no wall separation). Sometimes it will reconnect by opening the app, other times it will not and act as if the unit is powered (plugged in) but not cooking, it's asking you to set time/temp and press 'start cooking' - meanwhile you can hear it running from the other room (in otherwise complete silence). That's not something you want to see when you're halfway through a 48 hour cook. The only way to restore proper connectivity is to (for Android users) go into 'Settings' and force kill the app and re-open it.That being said, Bluetooth isn't all that important to me. Bluetooth has a small range (aka, within my house), if I want to know THAT bad what my Anova is doing, I can walk to the kitchen. The best option for this device would have been the WiFi version for when I'm not home, but I saw a review that convinced me otherwise of spending the extra money for it.Now, as far a comparing the Anova 750 watt Nano to the Wancle 850 watt:Immersion cooking: Tie. They both perform their desired function perfectly. If you stick a thermometer into the water while it's running, you'll see the temperature is accurate down to the tenth. They both do exactly what they were built for.Noise: Wancle wins. Completely silent. The Anova makes a whirring noise that as I sit at my PC 15 feet away, can still hear.Sleekness: Anova wins, hands-down. As you'll see from my photo of them side-by-side, the Wancle is a bit...top heavy, but part of that is for the next review item.Water level selection: Wancle. Both have a min and max for water selection for when the sous vide is submerged. However, with the Anova, it's a fixed point on the body of the unit with a thumbscrew clamp to secure it to whatever container holds your water. The Wancle has multiple height selections to comply with the water line, selectable with a trigger below its top handle (which is what adds to its top heaviness aside of the display).All in all, I'm satisfied with my Anova purchase, but if I had saved $5 by ordering the Wancle, it still performs immersion cooking just as well as the Anova if you don't need the Bluetooth bells and whistles.

Bought mine 5 years ago and it still works well. I did have to remove the bottom part to descale it and clean it beacause of my hard water. It was making an unusual noise.