Oh my... I paid $199 for my 800w Anova SV circulator 2 years ago. Now here we are at $59. I predicted a while ago these things will continue falling in price like toasters and microwaves did. Soon... they will be in every home in America. They are just that good. https://www.amazon.com/Sous-Vide-The...de+circulators
Yes...😡 My first microwave was ridiculously high priced. As was my first cell phone, that was bigger than my forearm.. As was my first computer. I paid $5000 for my first flat panel big screen TV too.🙈
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When I was a kid in the early 80s my dad bought a new-fangled device called a VCR for over $400! The last time I seen one in Walmart before they stopped being produced (maybe what 2 years, 3 years ago?) they were about $30, with way more features than my dad's first Toshiba I think it was. Funny how things change like that.
Oh my... I paid $199 for my 800w Anova SV circulator 2 years ago. Now here we are at $59. I predicted a while ago these things will continue falling in price like toasters and microwaves did. Soon... they will be in every home in America. They are just that good. https://www.amazon.com/Sous-Vide-The...de+circulators
The customer reviews on that thing are pretty odd. Several of them report great satisfaction with the packaging and how quickly they received it, but say they haven't yet cooked with it.
True but the technology is so basic/simple that I've never heard of a circulator not working accurately. I'm going to buy a few of those. One for me so I have 3 circulators to cook with and to have some to give away as gifts.
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This isn't quite a "fair" comparison because you don't always heat water from 72F to 135F but it does show the range of power across several of the "premium" SV circulators.
When I bought my 800w Anova 2 years ago I turned my hot water heater up so it comes out of the spicot at 131°. Then if I need my water to be 185° to do veggies I boil a big pot of water and dump it into my 131° water so i get to 185° quickly. The 800w circulator is all I need.👍
Breadhead Turning your hot water heater up is probably not very economical -- that's a full-time 24/7 solution for a part-time problem. A secondary issue is that, in general, higher power output not only heats water up faster, it can also allow you to use a larger cooking vessel should you need it. The exact maximum size of a vessel will depend, of course, on how high you need the temperature to be and how well it's insulated.
Breadhead I use about 80g of coarsely-ground coffee (the grind I normally use for French press) to about 700 ml of tap water, but the exact coffee:water ratio will depend on your own personal taste. The afternoon or evening before, I dump both in a French press, stir once or twice, pop the lid on but don't press down, then let sit on the counter until morning. Then I gently press, pour the concentrate into a clean mason jar, and keep that in the fridge. When I want hot coffee I pour some into a cup and either dilute with boiling water to taste, or else I dilute with tap water and pop it into the microwave. When I want iced coffee I drop ice cubes into a glass and pour over the concentrate. As with the coffee:water extraction ratio, the amount of dilution will also depend on your own personal taste.
The coffee doesn't heat so the aromatics don't volatilize as easily, nor do the acids leach as easily.
For guests who don't like the residual grinds, I pass the concentrate through an Aeropress before dilution. I don't do that for myself.
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