this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
824 points (98.6% liked)

Technology

59674 readers
3223 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I bought one of these years ago, and took a look at it. The app let's you remote control the stick and pick recipes that will autoset the temps. That's about it. The stick has buttons on it, and it's not like you can have it add the food to the water bath remotely. It'd pretty easy to knock in the temp at the heater while you're there

Sous vide is a "set and forget" cooking method like a crockpot. You can walk away and leave the thing running long past the minimum time and have no issues because the whole point is it takes food to an exact temp and no further. So even any alerting "temp reached" it may do now isn't really useful.

This feels like a "pick the carcass" attempt to make some money at all. I expect the company is probably in a bad state if this is the game they are playing.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I've used sous vide for a long time myself. Sounds like the whole apk could be replaced with asking the internet what temp to cook X at, and then setting your phones timer for cook time.