Anova NANO Sous Vide In Depth Review!

Anova Precision Cooker Nano Review

They say you never forget your first sous vide precision cooker. Actually, nobody says that. Even now, in an era when vacuum-sealed food bags having become the latest benefactor/victim of the app-guided cooking trend, most people genuinely don’t know what I’m talking about when I tell them I sometimes cook with a sous vide pronunciation wand. The Anova Nano Sous Vide Machine is a great starter immersion circulator.

But there’s a good reason why home chefs—or those who fancy themselves chefs—have embraced sous vide, a method of cooking that involves dropping food (meat is an optimal choice, though you can cook other things) into vacuum-sealed plastic bags and submerging it for an extended period of time in a temperature-controlled water bath.

The result is meat that’s incredibly tender, juicy, and evenly-cooked. Cook a fine piece of salmon sous vide, and it can come out looking so perfect that it resembles the fake food you see in display cases. Also, many sous vide dishes are finished off with a light sear from a blowtorch. That’s the fun part.

Low-temperature cooking is an ancient technique

And sous vide, as established by the French, has been around since the 1970’s. But modern sous vide machines, like the Anova Nono and like so many other home appliances, come with Wi-Fi radios and Bluetooth chips.

You stick the wand in a pot of water, then pair it with an app. The app tells you the desired temperature, tells you how long to cook your meat for, and tells you when your food is done. Much of the guesswork is eliminated in sous vide beef recipe..

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The $99 Anova Precision Cooker Nano is the newest entry into this category of connected sous vide wands. Anova Culinary has been making sous vide wands (also known as immersion circulators) since 2013. WIRED food writer Joe Ray called an early version of an Anova immersion circulator the “one to beat.” That product is no longer made.

The company does sell a newer circulator that ranges in price from $130 to $150, depending on where you buy it and whether it’s an 800-watt wand or a 900-watt model but for most people that Anova Nano is a great starter unit.