Sous Vide for £99?

[Pferdestarke]

Amazon. Andrew James rebranded special. No frills but looks okay for the money.

Does anyone have one?



http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00GSSUNLO/ref=mp_...

[Arpa]

Not tried the Andrew James Sous Vide bath but I did go for:

http://anovaculinary.com/

which is an immersion circulator rather than heated bath. Arguably better but probably makes little difference at the home cook level. I preferred the design and easier to store.

Worked out about 160-170gbp delivered as its 199USD for the unit and about 65USD delivery from the US.

Can't fault it so far although my technique needs further refinement.

[21TonyK]

Arpa said:

Not tried the Andrew James Sous Vide bath but I did go for:

http://anovaculinary.com/

which is an immersion circulator rather than heated bath. Arguably better but probably makes little difference at the home cook level. I preferred the design and easier to store.

Worked out about 160-170gbp delivered as its 199USD for the unit and about 65USD delivery from the US.

Can't fault it so far although my technique needs further refinement.

Looks like a good bit of kit. I need another bath but may go for one of these instead. Have you tried it on a large capacity pan, it says 22l max, be interested to know if i can really cope with that.

[cornet]

Wow didn't know you could get them quite that cheap.

Just built myself one using a cheap slow cooker + arduino:



Tried it last night with a Rib Eye, came out really well. 1hr @ 54(ish)C




Some more tuning and refinements required to keep the temperature a bit more stable but pretty happy with it so far.

[Arpa]

21TonyK said:

Looks like a good bit of kit. I need another bath but may go for one of these instead. Have you tried it on a large capacity pan, it says 22l max, be interested to know if i can really cope with that.

I've only used it a couple of times - really with whatever came to hand and probably no more than a 10litres so far.

I've just bought a new 'bath' which is actually a 25litre plastic storage box from tesco's for 4gbp which I plan to test out at the weekend. I'm pretty confident it'll easily manage the 22l you quote - the impeller provides decent circulation and the water comes up to temperature pretty quickly.

[21TonyK]

Arpa said:

I've only used it a couple of times - really with whatever came to hand and probably no more than a 10litres so far.

I've just bought a new 'bath' which is actually a 25litre plastic storage box from tesco's for 4gbp which I plan to test out at the weekend. I'm pretty confident it'll easily manage the 22l you quote - the impeller provides decent circulation and the water comes up to temperature pretty quickly.

Sounds promising. Our 40l is plumbed in to a hot water supply so no getting up to temp, if anything we chuck ice in to lower it.

Soudnds like a good toy for work and for home. The big kit can do the 40 duck legs and this could do home or stuff to order.

[Arpa]

21TonyK said:

Sounds promising. Our 40l is plumbed in to a hot water supply so no getting up to temp, if anything we chuck ice in to lower it.

Soudnds like a good toy for work and for home. The big kit can do the 40 duck legs and this could do home or stuff to order.

I think the only ones that would be happy if I cooked 40 duck legs would be my Labradors!

[Pferdestarke]

Just ordered the Giles and Posner off Ebay for £79.99 and the Andrew James vacuum for £39.99.

I'll report back once delivered.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251241388175

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-James-Quality-Vacuu...

[hairyben]

Pferdestarke said:

Just ordered the Giles and Posner r

Identical to the op's I think there's a factory banging them out with brands to order.

we have the g+p its an excellent if basic piece of kit, only does whole numbers of deg not decimal points.

[Pferdestarke]

After having a go this evening and obtaining some good results I'm really
Pleased and think I'll use it a lot.