Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker 3.0 (WiFi), 1100 Watts

I have owned a few sous vide over the years. I really love how magical they are at making perfect steaks and roast beef with even the most economical cuts. I liked the following features of this particular model: 1. It is very easy to program using their free app. I did not have a problem with losing signal when I wandered around the house like others have reported. I like that I could follow its cooking time and water temp on my smartphone. 2. The clamp that holds the sous vide to the water container is easily removable from the sous vide. The one I had previously had a spring loaded clamp but eventually it cracked off the sous vide and I had to throw it away. It had a screw that holds the clamp to the pot and another that holds the sou vide securely. It is easily removed. 3. I liked that it can be disassembled for easy cleaning. 4. It has a highly accurate thermostat from what I could tell. At least the medium rare roast beef I cooked was perfectly medium rare throughout. It gives readings to 1/10 degree F. For those who aren't all that familiar with sous vide cooking, many restaurants use them to get perfect, slow cooked meals, especially meats done to perfection. And you don't need to be hovering around the oven to make sure it doesn't overcook. If you're busy and can't get to it for 30 minutes, it's still a good. I once cooked a eye of chuck, a tasty but chewy cut of beef to medium rare for several hours to give it time to essentially "tenderize," then used it for Beef Wellington and it was as delicious! It came out as tender as tenderloin at 1/3 the cost! There really couldn't be an easier way to cook a fancy perfectly cooked meal than with this "set it and forget it" device.

I use my Anova Sous Vide Cooker all the time, and it has completely changed the way I cook. Every meal I’ve made with it has turned out perfectly tender, flavorful, and cooked exactly the way I like it. Whether it’s steak, chicken, fish, or even vegetables—this thing delivers restaurant-quality results every time. One of my favorite features is the Anova app. Not only is it super easy to use, but it also has a huge library of recipes that inspire me to try new dishes. Plus, the app connects to my phone so I can monitor the cooking process from anywhere in the house and always know exactly how much time is left. Anova has really built a great system. The device is reliable, the app is user-friendly, and the overall experience is just smooth and satisfying. If you’re even slightly interested in sous vide cooking, I highly recommend Anova. You won’t regret it!

The best kitchen tool we have purchased in years! It makes all of our meats perfect! Easy, quiet and Best Buy for the $! Thank you

This is one heck of a sous vide circulator. I absolutely love it. It has a great display that is easy to read and use. Also a built in timer. The temp control is about as spot on as it gets. I have a thermapem which I trust with my life for accuracy and the circulator is spot on. This is quiet and performs really well. No need to spend 3x as much for a circulator just because it looks cool and has a fancy app. You will not regret buying this. Sous vide is a great way to cook and this is a great option into diving into the sous vide world.

This product does its job—and does it well. I had the app downloaded and was cooking within about 15 minutes, including minor assembly of the holder (easy enough, but oddly no instructions). Performance-wise, no complaints. The hardware works, the app is responsive, and the setup is painless. The reason this isn’t a five-star review is the unnecessary subscription. Charging $2.99 a month or $9.99 a year just to unlock basic app features feels like nickel-and-diming. This should have been a one-time price increase at purchase, not a recurring fee for functionality the product already has. Great product. Poor monetization decision. Fix that, and this is an easy five stars.

Best cooking device I have literally ever bought. The wifi connection works seamlessly when I am not home and this thing cooks things like I never could. Instructions are straight forward and simple and it's very easy to store since it is not large at all. I would recommend looking into some videos about these if you want to know more but this brand model has worked out great for me so far.

I am not a difficult person to please, but this is easily the most disappointed I have been in product in a very long time. There have been many occasions over the years when I wished I had a sous vide cooker, but it never felt like a necessity. Recently, I decided to treat myself, and was excited about adding one to my kitchen. After spending many hours researching options to ensure the right choice, I selected the Anova Precision Cooker 3.0 because of the brand’s reputation, its higher power compared to alternatives, advertised Wi-Fi capability with remote monitoring and control, and a price point I was willing to meet to get these features from a known brand. Based on that research, it appeared to be a safe, well-regarded choice. I ordered it from Amazon earlier this week, it arrived two days ago, and today it was unpacked for its first use. This is where my experience went off the rails. Using the Wi-Fi features requires installing the Anova app on your phone. Upon opening the app for the first time, a subscription prompt immediately appeared, offering access to recipes, cooking guides, and tutorials for a monthly or annual fee. Those extras were of no interest, so I declined the subscription. What followed was nearly an hour spent attempting to pair the cooker with the app. The only setup guidance provided is to install the app and follow the prompts. One of the first steps is to confirm a code displayed in the app matches one displayed on the cooker. The codes did match, but pressing the confirmation button resulted in nothing happening. The app remained stuck on the same screen. A troubleshooting button in the app provided no guidance relevant to this issue. A Google search led to suggestions to perform a factory reset on the device, uninstall and reinstall the app, and try again. All of that was done — twice — with the same result. Further searching led to the Anova website, where there is extensive marketing copy but very little practical help or support. The most useful information came from user forums, where a consistent theme emerged: many core features — including remote monitoring and control via Wi-Fi — require a paid subscription. Crucially, this requirement is not disclosed in the Amazon product listing nor on Anova’s own product page. In all of the pre-purchase research done beforehand, there was no indication that an ongoing paid subscription would be necessary to use the very features that made this model appealing in the first place. That reality only became apparent after the purchase, while searching for help. This is utterly deceptive. If one must pay an ongoing fee to use the features of a product — particularly the features that drove the purchasing decision — then one does not truly own that product. An honest and reputable company would clearly disclose such a requirement upfront. Anova, it would seem, deliberately conceals this critical detail, presumably in hopes of compelling customers who have already paid approximately $140 (when viable options exist for far less) to continue paying an additional $10–$24 per year indefinitely. Had the subscription requirement been clearly disclosed, I almost certainly would have chosen a different product, as most consumers likely would. That may well lead to lower sales, but a company who respects its customers would be transparent about this. One that prioritizes sales over respect for its customers will choose a different strategy: Entice the customer into purchasing the product first, then wait until they’re trying to make dinner with it the first time to tell them it’ll cost them only $2 per month or $10 per year to use it the way they were expecting, the way you told them they could. This deception is unacceptable. Charging a premium price for hardware while quietly placing key, advertised functionality behind a recurring paywall is despicable. It reflects very poorly on a company and destroys trust. This Anova Precision Cooker 3.0 is being returned immediately, and the Anova name on any product will be an automatic disqualifier in all of my future purchasing decisions.

I have seen a lot about sous vide, but I mainly ignored it as another fad. Recently, I saw it mentioned in my weight loss group for batch cooking chicken breasts to cut & use in recipes without drying out the chicken. I can cook moist chicken breasts in the oven, but I use a thermometer to keep it at 165. It's tedius to monitor with multiple sized breasts that we buy in bulk at Costco. I can use the pressure cooker, but it varies on how tender it comes out since breasts vary in size when batch cooking. In addition, since Covid, we've been having a lot of problems with the toughness of the beef carried at Costco, prime or choice, doesn't matter. We can pay more for better quality elsewhere, and we have done this for better results, but I'm newly retired & we're cooking for a family of 5. I prefer the Costco prices. Soooo, I ordered this cooker to see if it was as magical as everyone has said. First, the app is FREE. There are a lot of complaints about the price of the premium version of the app. The free portion is very basic. You connect to your wifi & you can set the temperature & the timer and you can start the cooker from the app. I find the app easier to use than pushing up and down buttons on the unit itself. The app allows you to just type in the numbers. My old fingers are more easily able to type buttons on my phone than messing with the unit. It's not fancy so when your timer is up, you will NOT get an alert from the app. Your cooker will let out a few beeps and stop. If needed, it would be better to use your phone timer or an oven timer instead of the app if you need to more closely monitor the cooker. I personally have zero desire to pay for the premium portion of the app which apparently provides recipes & allows you to select the recipe & it programs your cooker. How hard is it to type in numbers for temp & time? Hit Google and you will get a million options for recipes cooking your meat. Use Reddit, Facebook, etc, etc, for recipes. Anova even has suggested times and plenty of informative articles on their website for free. You don't need to pay for an app. Right now, I haven't bought anything but the cooker. We have a large, oval Le Creuset Dutch oven which works perfectly so far. We have a vacuum sealer, but I'm just using the cheaper freezer lock bags from Costco which seem to work fine. I have been clipping the bags onto the sides of the pot, but the meat seems to stay underwater without the clip. I cover the pot with a piece of foil & a dish towel. I haven't seen any evaporation yet and this may not be needed for the short cook times I've done so far. First, I made 2 chicken breasts for my lunches. I did 148 degrees at 1 hour and 30 minutes. I then seared the chicken breasts in a skillet for some added flavor. Right now, I'm batching cooking 4 breasts for my lunch, but I did presalt them & let them sit for about a half hour prior to cooking. You still need to brine your meat if that's your preference. I won't be searing the chicken & I will just shred it & portion it for chicken sandwiches for my lunches this week. For my second attempt, I had my husband buy the cheaper top sirloin steaks from Costco. He salted them & let them sit overnight. I added Montreal Steak Seasoning & plopped them in bags for about 3:10 at 132 degrees. Hint... If you start with hot water out of your tap, it takes less time for the cooker to get your water to temperature. My husband seared the beef in a cast iron skillet with butter & they turned out so tender. Next time, I'll probably drop the temp to 130 to get it a bit more medium rare. I included a picture, but I didn't slice the meat for staging as I was anxious to eat. If you're looking for fool-proof tender meat, sous vide is the way to go.