Good Meat, Faster

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The original Joule Sous Vide is a rod that heats water to the ideal temperature for cooking bag-sealed chicken, steak, or chops. The upside is that you can easily attain a perfect level of juiciness or tenderness; the downside is that it could take 60 minutes to cook steak. Enter the Turbo, which like its predecessor, connects to an app. It uses algorithmic math to constantly analyze real-time variables – such as ever-changing water viscosity – to deliver precisely enough energy to bring meat to a desired temperature. Now cooking a steak takes just 30 minutes, and delivers a consistent (and gourmet-quality) tenderness throughout the meat. “We can speed up cooking without over-cooking,” says Grant Crilly, executive director for manufacturer Breville. “That has never been possible in any cooking technique.”

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