Cooking meat or vegetables at low temperatures preserves their own taste, minerals and vitamins and the food does not dry out.
With Sous-Vide cooking, the food is cooked slowly in plastic bags.
Sous vide pots or sticks can be used for this.
The term Sous Vide is French and means “under vacuum”: Here, meat, fish or vegetables are slowly cooked in a plastic bag in the absence of air at temperatures well below 100 degrees.
To vacuum pack the food you need a vacuum sealer and vacuum bag.
The food is sealed in the bag together with spices or marinades.
This type of preparation preserves vitamins, nutrients and flavors.
Sous vide pots or tanks are small boilers with temperature and time controls.
As a rule, they hold five to seven liters.
The scope of delivery includes a lid and various metal baskets or food holders.
These are necessary so that the warm water can circulate between the vacuum bags.
This is especially important if the tank does not have a circulation pump.
The lid means that less energy is lost and the warm-up times are shorter.
The disadvantage of Sous-Vide pots compared to Sous-Vide sticks is the large space requirement and the fixed capacity.
If you want to prepare larger portions with a stick, you can simply use a larger pot.
Sous-vide cooker put to the test
The test portal AllesBeste tested ten sous vide pots and 13 sous vide sticks.
The favorite among the sous vide pots is the Caso SV900.
It convinces with a modern and high-quality housing, short heating times and excellent usability.
Thanks to its active circulation, the model heats up cold water faster than any other device in the test.
In addition, the water temperature measured here corresponds to the temperature shown on the display.
The KitchenBoss KG310 was most convincing in the Sous-Vide-Stick category: It offers a first-class, simple touch control panel and is very easy to attach to the pot.
There is also a side countdown display and the temperature only deviates by 0.5 degrees.
More information and other recommended alternatives in each category can be found in the extensive review of AllesBeste.