Greater Goods Kitchen Sous Vide - A Powerful Precision Cooking Machine at 1100 Watts, Ultra Quiet Immersion Circulator With a Brushless Motor, (Stone Blue)

Let me start by saying I am a retired Quality Assurance and Laboratory Manager for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and also taught equipment qualification and calibration in the university. This is my fourth Sous Vide machine from different manufacturers over the years. The Greater Goods Kitchen Sous Vide is far and away the best I have owned, and significantly less expensive than the A------a brand. The system is well built, VERY easy to use and attractive to boot - no more bland silver and black, this is a gorgeous teal blue :~) The system is powerful and gets up to temperature quickly, and runs nearly silently. I measured the water temperature throughout a 14 quart bath and it was dead on at every location, so the water circulation is well designed and powerful. As opposed to many others, this is the easiest system to use - the display is very large, bright and sits at a 45 degree angle, so in use you can see what you're doing without having to get on a stool to look down on the others that have a flat top. The controls are also very simple - just press the big single button to change from temperature to time, to stop and even to calibrate. Very easy to use and intuitive. For a retired lab rat and 'scientific cook' I found the calibration very easy to use and very important. I set the Sous Vide for 134 degrees in a bath that was filled with hot tap water at 124. It reached temperature in about 5 minutes and stabilized. I read the bath using a calibrated thermopen in several spots and found it was 131.2 degrees. Not bad for out of the box, but it was simple to press and hold the button to go into calibration mode and set it for -2.8 degrees (the correction factor as measured by the external thermometer). The heater immediately came on and raised the bath to 134 (as measured by the thermopen in several points). And then held it for the 4 hours cook of a frozen steak. A simple and elegant machine from Greater Goods. My only (minor) criticism is the alarm on the timer that goes off when the cooking time expires, then continues to beep (loudly) until you shut it off. For my use, the built in timer is irrelevant - sous vide cooking is measured in hours, not minutes, and there's no penalty for going overtime. I just leave the timer at 10 - 20 hours and stop it at the 3-4 hours depending on what I'm cooking. If I'm planning dinner for 6 PM, I just start it around 2ish. For some long term sous vide recipes (I'm looking at you, eye of round roast that becomes a fork tender roast overnight) that take 24 hours, again I'm not relying on the built in timer. I'm also glad they left out the bluetooth/WiFi/smoke signal controls. It takes longer to open the app than to just push the big button!!!! Don't need the buggy app or price bump for something that really adds no value - c'mon, once you put the bagged food in and hit start, you have nothing to do, monitor or change until you hit stop and take out the food. And then getting out the blowtorch to sear it off. (oh yeah, it's Ironman with a flamethrower to get that medium rare ribeye to the perfect char!!!). Simple to use, pretty to look at, nothing to hear and can be calibrated in a flash. My reviews are straight from the heart, based on my own testing and I paid full price for this unit and received no compensation from Greater Goods for this review.

I love my sous vide. I would purchase this brand over any other one. I don't like the Bluetooth features on the other brands, this one is so easy to just push the timer, temp, and let it do its job! I did have issues with it being a little loud after the 4th use. I use my sous vide almost every other day. I considered returning it, but gave it another chance, The noise didn't bother me as much and the noise went away. Then it stopped working and my window to return it ended, i was bummed. I contacted Amazon and they were so helpful. They transferred me over to the sous vide company and the customer service rep over at Greater Goods was amazing, she said to add a pinch of salt to the water and would send me another device right away. I received my new sous vide in less than a week. The salt trick did work on the old sous vide by the way. I think it has to do with my water. So, yes, I highly recommend this company and this sous vide. So easy to use and the company and its customer service are one of the best out there!

Great used it multiple times and every time works as advertised.

Works as described! Cooks to desired temperature and makes meats very tender! Temperature control was exact as described! Highly recommend this product!

I've only used it twice so far and it did a good job on my ribs and my egg. The water warmed up slower than I expected from a 1000w unit but was still fast enough. The controls are very easy to use and reset when the time comes. There is no on/off switch, you have to unplug the unit to turn it off. The container and sleeve that came with it fit well to the Sous Vide heater. People reviewing it said it was quiet. When I first turned it on there was a very distinct whir and I was surprised to hear it. As the water warmed it seemed to get quieter. The first test was making a hard boiled egg. It came out very nice. Next I did ribs and I let them go 18 hours. Turned them on at midnight and had them the next day about 6 for dinner. Had a rub I made and applied it before I vacuum sealed the ribs and then after I broiled them with some BBQ sauce. Came out very well. Can't wait to use it on some steaks and pork chops.