Sous vide (the phrase means “under a vacuum”) is the process of cooking food that’s been sealed in a plastic bag slowly in a temperature-controlled water bath. First developed for institutional use, ...

An immersion circulator (right) heats a vacuum-sealed bag of carrots in a tub of water as Jerry Friedman, of Dallas, demonstrates the sous vide method of cooking in his home Tuesday July 22, 2014.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. If you have recently purchased an immersion ...

In August 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Amanda Hesser that effectively introduced sous vide—the process of cooking bagged, vacuum-sealed food in a precisely controlled, low ...

Sous-vide cooking has been getting a lot of attention recently and for good reason: cooking food in a water bath at an exact and consistent temperature provides unique results. As the method keeps ...

Are you ready for new cookware but stuck deciding between a sous vide appliance and an Instant Pot multifunction cooker? Why not choose both? The Instant Pot Accu Slim Sous Vide Immersion Circulator ...

In order to cook sous vide, it used to be that you needed to be the owner of a restaurant, or at least be a tech-obsessed gastrophile with some money to burn. Just a few short years ago, the pieces of ...

Anova Culinary will release a $99 version (roughly converted to £80 or AU$135) of its popular sous vide immersion circulator, which could make this cooking method more approachable. Ashlee Clark ...

The price. Anova and Sansaire cost $200. The Nomiku, without any major difference, is $300. If it launched alongside the competition, why price themselves out of the market? A target temperature ...

Sous-vide cooking may seem elaborate and mysterious, but it's truly a helpful tool for the unorganized and forgetful. Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s ...

This is the story of how a video game mogul, an airplane engineer, a scientist, a designer, and a bunch of chefs developed a new immersion circulator they named Joule. “It’s kind of a strange story,” ...

The team behind the instructional cooking videos at ChefSteps has taken the leap from content to hardware. The company has created an immersion circulator for sous vide cooking called the Joule. It ...