Anova Culinary Sous Vide プレシジョンクッカーミニ、850ワット、ブラックとオレンジ、アプリ対応

I’ve been using the Anova Mini for about a year and a half now, and it has easily become my absolute favorite kitchen gadget. I noticed it has been getting a fair amount of negative reviews online, and while I’m sure those buyers are being sincere, I completely disagree. If you are even remotely interested in sous vide cooking, you should snatch this up immediately—especially at its current price point. When I bought it for $50, I thought it was a steal. Now that it’s even cheaper, it’s a no-brainer. Here is my honest take after 18 months of heavy use: Addressing the App & Membership Complaints: A lot of the negative feedback comes from the fact that you have to use the smartphone app to operate the machine. At first, I just used the standard Bluetooth connectivity to run it, which worked flawlessly. Eventually, I decided to sign up for the Anova membership. It’s only about $9 a year, and I don’t regret it for a second. It's incredibly affordable, and the app features are well worth it to me. Performance & Results: Flawless Precision: I have gotten perfect, edge-to-edge results every single time I have used it (minus one time, but that was definitely user error on my part!). Zero-Effort Cooking: It makes meal prep incredibly low-stress. I can set my water bath, go about my day, and get a perfect steak, chicken breast, or pork chop without any guesswork. It's also the PERFECT tool for reheating meat without overcooking those perfectly cooked leftovers. Perfect for Small Spaces: It’s compact, lightweight, and tucks away easily into a standard utensil drawer when I’m done. Don't let the complaints about the app put you off. For less than the cost of a couple of coffees a year, the app integration is great, and the machine itself is a powerhouse. Highly, highly recommended! 5 stars.

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An absolute steal for $20. Probably still a steal at $40. At that price point, I was expecting some kind of functional compromise, and yet: Brought my largest metal pot of water to temperature in 30m and kept it there. That's all I really needed it to do. Sous vide revolutionizes slow-cooking meats, I can't imagine making a brisket or duck breast without this anymore. It's fantastic that Anova is pricing this in a way that puts delicious, healthy, low effort, high reliability cooking into everyone's reach. I thought I would be annoyed by the lack of a display and necessity of yet another app, but the app is well done (see what I did there?) and ultimately I would rather check my phone than walk into my kitchen anyway. I wish it came with a safe, sanitary storage case, but I can survive without that.

Im torn on this thing - on the one hand it's $30. Sometimes even $20. It will heat water to roughly the temperature you set via the app, and that's it. Don't count on it to do anything else, or even be particularly good at that. But - if that's all you need then it's probably fine. For one, the thermometer is surprisingly off. Like, i didn't think it was possible to be that far off with a modern computer controlled thermometer, but it was pretty consistently up to 8f off from multiple other thermometers. Which is like, the whole reason you buy a "precision" cooker. Worse is that it seems relatively consistent in how off it is which means they just either didn't calibrate it or did it wrong, neither of which is particularly confidence inspiring. For some reason it also just stops reading below about 47f, which means that you can't use it to do things like quickly defrost bagged food. The circulator will run, which helps, but you cant use the heater to bring the bath up at all since it needs to be set below 40f. It also sits weirdly high in whatever container you put it in because of the placement of the little pot hook. That means that you have to fill whatever you're using almost to the brim, and in some cases in my use right up to the brim. During some cooks, it would take as little as a few hours for the water to evaporate below the minimum fill line, at which point it just stops - no notification, no light, no noise, no nothing - which is incredibly dangerous for a device that is meant to run sometimes for literally days. Where it really falls apart is the app. It's bad. Really bad. From the start it needs your wifi credentials. Why? I have no idea since even with the subscription i never got a notification, or was able to connect to the cooker remotely. When i tried using it away from home i had to completely re-set up the device from a hotspot on my phone, even though after it showed i was connected over bluetooth before. Every time it starts it asks you to purchase their subscription. So what exactly do you get for this subscription? As far as i can tell some recopies that you can look up online anyway and that's pretty much it. I wouldn't even be that annoyed with the subscription... EXCEPT - there's one subscription feature that i'm going to rail against - the one for multi-cooker support. Having to purchase a subscription be be able to use two devices within the same app is so asinine, user hostile and poorly planned on the part of Anova i won't ever be able to recommend any of their products. Not only do you have to pay for the privilege of buying two of them, but swapping between devices within the app is a nightmare. It's buried in your account for some reason, instead of just being able to switch at the top where it shows your connection, or heavens forbid just being connected to both over the network. It also takes *forever* to connect to the other device, and fails occasionally even though both are connected to the same wifi. In theory, i'm not really opposed to this device. It kind of does what it sets out to do, be a really cheap immersion circulator that maybe makes money by throwing some ease of use features behind a paywall. But the failure of the app to either do anything well or even allow you to use all the items you already purchased make this a terrible deal on every front. Spend a bit more (not even that much) and buy almost literally any other one on the market.

This only has 1 button and only connects to an app via Bluetooth. Open the app, set the temp and done. You don’t need any other features in a sous vide machine. That’s the whole point of these things, set it and forget it. Verified steady accurate temps using my thermoworks probes. This thing works perfectly. Is the Bluetooth connection spotty some times? Yes. But all Bluetooth is! Soon as you loose connection it doesn’t like to reconnect but car stereos do the same thing. Close the app and reopen it and all is solved. But honestly never have I needed to open the app a second time after setting the temp. Pressing the top button stops the cook, but doesn’t resume it fyi. Either way, works great. Got it on sale for $20. Worth it 100%