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> there's no better and worse sous vide, all sous vide machines produce the exact identical quality outcome When I was planning to buy a sous vide machine, peo
by verbify 10y ago
> there's no better and worse sous vide, all sous vide machines produce the exact identical quality outcome
When I was planning to buy a sous vide machine, people had complaints about certain machines - e.g. that it only had a four hour timer after which it would switch off. The outcome might be the same, but the interfaces will be different. There are other features whereby they can differ (e.g. the clip).
> all of the existing players are going to get murdered by cheap, Chinese generics
If my sous vide machine doesn't work properly, e.g. it drops or cuts out the temperature, then I'll possibly get food poisoning. I'd prefer to trust a manufacturer who has a reputation to lose. Not to mention you have a mix of electricity, moving parts, heat and water - not something you want to play around with.
There's also the complexity of the app. I might want it to hit a certain temperature, then drop to a lower temperature for a specific amount of time. Good UX/UI costs money.
- shalmanese 10y agoThere are ways for a sous vide machine to be obviously terrible, sure. But those early teething issues have long been solved by now. All the machines on the market nowadays aren't obviously terrible (except Joule not having on-device controls) and there's very little that differentiates them on a day to day use basis. As the tech becomes more mature, more and more of those factors are going to simply be assumed. Also, 3 decades of SV experience has shown us that there isn't any complexity in practice to SV recipes. 99% of SV recipes are 2 numbers (temperature and time) and the other 1% is 3 numbers (cook temp, cook time and hold temp). There's no magic hyper complex SV recipe that we haven't discovered yet and not for lack of trying.