
Sous vide is French for “under vacuum,” but the key to sous-vide cooking is keeping the vacuum-sealed ingredients submerged in a bath of circulating water and held steady at a low temperature for hours or even days. This ensures that food cooks evenly and retains its full flavor and moistness. The method used to require costly lab-grade immersion circulators to control the water’s temperature and flow, but now the SousVide Supreme offers the same results at one third the cost of pro systems.
$450; sousvidesupreme.com