EVERIE Weighted Sous Vide Rack Divider, Improved Vertical Mount Stops Wobbling, 7 Stainless Steel Dividers

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Should be easier to use than actually is. If you load the food/bags before placing in water, it comes apart. If place in water first, difficult to get all pieces lined up and attached.

This item is very easy to assemble, but it doesn't weigh enough to hold itself down. I tried cooking a few bags of vegetables in this thing and when they started to float, they pulled up the whole rack with it! That was with the top bar covering the bags, too. Most cuts of meat seem to be fine and aren't as challenging to keep from floating to the top and escaping the rack. The other issue I have with this item is that small specks of rust started to show up after just a couple of uses (and I had dried off the rack after each use). My fear is that the rust will somehow make it onto my sous vide cooker and ruin it.

I have had a Sous Vide Supreme since September 2009 and have used various items to keep "floaters" submerged. This rack works perfectly! First test was on carrots, which ALWAYS turn into floaters. It not only has more channels for bags than the rack that comes with the unit, but it has that bar over the top that keeps the bags from floating to the top. I wish I would've had this way back in 2009! (Back then, though, no one knew what Sous Vide was). I REALLY like the ability to change the width of the channels so I can do more vegetables at a time with no floaters and another time, use less dividers to fit a roast like a tri-tip. I love this rack!

I was prepared for a tough setup after some of the reviews complaining about lack of directions. Well, I guess I can understand that some people are not good at assembly, but there is only one way these pieces fit together - which is fairly obvious - and you don't need any tools. As long as the racks are inserted firmly, it won't come apart due to floating bags. As for floating bags, I had no problems with that. I think that happens mostly when too much air is allowed to remain in the bag. I doubt that I'll be cooking lots of different stuff together, since vegetables generally require more heat than most meats; these are mostly convenient for when you want to do a several steaks or chicken pieces in one session, or when you have a bunch of different vegetables you want to cook sous vide. The rack allows good flow between bags and underneath. Since the bags stand up in the rack, you might need more water than you normally use if you generally lay things down.