Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is learning to cook the perfect steak. Seattle cooking startup ChefSteps unveiled at the GeekWire Summit 2016 a new Alexa skill that can talk to the company’s Joule sous ...

French for “under vacuum,” sous vide cooking involves immersing vacuum-sealed food in a temperature-controlled water bath until the food is cooked to your liking. It might sound intimidating, and it’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,” ...

ChefSteps wants to give you as much help as you need in the kitchen. Just a couple months after we learned that Alexa could take charge of ChefSteps‘ sous vide low-temperature water cooking appliance, ...

ChefSteps' Joule wants to be the iPod of home sous-vide. The Internet of Things has reached the kitchen, and few gadgets please ambitious home chefs like a sous-vide cooker. Distilling what once was ...

In 2018, there’s nothing novel about food nerds, like J. Kenji López-Alt, singing the praises of sous-vide machines and immersion circulators. Sous-vide cooking is arguably the easiest way to make ...

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Conversations about sous-vide cooking frequently begin and end with “it makes a good steak,” which, though very true, is grossly shortsighted. The why of sous-vide cooking is clear: The device’s ...

Sous vide is a method of very precise cooking in which you seal food in plastic bags (some foods can be prepared in glass containers) and immerse it in a water bath set to a relatively low temperature ...