Sous Vide Cooker Immersion Circulator Programmable Time & Temperature Control, 800W

I bought this for my cousin's birthday and it is really sleek. Usually there's a touch screen and it's a little annoying when your fingers are wet. But you adjust this one with a little dial on the side. My cousin told me it was the best steak he ever had which immediately depressed me because he told me about all these awesome steakhouses in the area while I was cooking it for him. So I was hoping for maybe second best or third best because it was a pretty cheap piece of meat. But he told me it was the best so I'm not going to eat at any Steakhouse in this area. I finished my meat off with a blowtorch. Also I didn't have sous vide bags so I just used an extra large Ziploc bag and it still worked. My cousin loved it and his mom is going to buy one as well.

I purchased this for my husband and he loves it. The brisket he made was amazing. Just so easy to set and go. The only con, and I've read this on other sous vide products, is that it appears parts of the material are already rusting? We will be interested to see how this holds up as time goes on. So far we have used it 2x.

Just getting started with sous vide and didn't want to spend too much only to find out that I didn't like food cooked this way. Well, I LOVE food cooked this way, and I'm delighted with this immersion circulator. Everything I've made so far has turned out exactly the way it's supposed to. The Brevo cooker is easy to use, small, easy to store, and does just what it's supposed to do. I don't think I'll need to upgrade for a long time. I can't imagine that the much more expensive Anova and Joule brands can do any better at the simple job of heating water to a specified temperature and circulating it around the food. Just delighted.-------------------The paragraph above was my five-star review, posted about a month after I bought this item. I do love sous vide cooking, but I regret to tell you that this cooker failed after less than three months. The thermostat stopped, and it would start heating the water and keep going, way past the set temperature. I ruined three steaks because I was accustomed to being able to "set-and-forget". I just happened to walk past it about an hour later and saw that it was cooking them at 177 degrees rather than the 139 degrees I had set it for. Even as I watched, the temp moved to 178 degrees. We have hard water here and I thought it might be caked with calcium, so I cleaned it as well as I could, but that didn't help. Sous vide cooking is great, but this particular cooker didn't last long.

This product arrived broken. Almost everything seemed to work but the dial on the side that adjusts temperature and time. As an electrical engineer I decided to see if I could fix it. It turned out after I opened it up that the wires going to the dial had their insulation striped back way too far and when it was assembled they had shorted out. I insulated them from each other, put it back together, and it worked. Though I would not recommend this product. While I was inside the device I saw many questionable things. Other than the shorted wires to the dial there were also wires that weren't fully isolated and others wires that got pinched and nearly cut in the assembly process. Again, I would not recommend this product, quality control defiantly is very poor on this product and it had some defects that could cause it to be a fire hazard.

For $40 this does all that I need in a Sous Vide Appliance. I do not like the plastic shroud around the impeller. I can see that breaking very easily and the dial is flimsy and poor grade plastic rather then a metal knob. Its my intent to be gentle with it so I hope it will last. Aside from that it performs as it should holding temperature and is as accurate as my other digital cooking thermometer.

Great product! Simple to use. Does exactly what you expect. I've made sous vide chicken, pork loin, steak, turkey tenderloid, and prime rib. This thing is awesome.

I bought this to replace an Anova which didn't last 2 years. On principle I didn't want to buy another. But the Anova is a lot easier to use. One negative for me is that the Brevo doesn't come with a box, making it a lot harder to store. The Anova has a nice box which goes on the shelf next to the vacuum sealer. The Brevo comes with the side clip attached as opposed to the Anova which has a slip on side clip. Since i cook in a cooler with a hole in the lid, I had to do some dismantling to get rid of it. This is certainly a step down from the Anova in ease of use and a lot slower to get to temperature. By the time this breaks i expect to have forgiven Anova and will probably replace it with their latest.

Zero problems with the item. Keeps it's temperature and has made sous vide a vital part of my kitchen.