Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. Sous Vide cooking is appealing because it ...

Cooking sous vide (French for ‘under vacuum’) involves the slow process of cooking vacuum-sealed meats and vegetables in low heat in a water bath. The method takes a long time (typically one to seven ...

ChefSteps' Joule wants to be the iPod of home sous-vide. The Internet of Things has reached the kitchen, and few gadgets please ambitious home chefs like a sous-vide cooker. Distilling what once was ...

Ashlee spent time as a newspaper reporter, AmeriCorps VISTA and an employee at a healthcare company before she landed at CNET. She loves to eat, write and watch "Golden Girls" (preferably all three at ...

Amazon’s digital brain Alexa is learning to cook the perfect steak. Seattle cooking startup ChefSteps unveiled at the GeekWire Summit 2016 a new Alexa skill that can talk to the company’s Joule sous ...

Technology makes it virtually impossible to not have a perfectly cook meal expertly prepared with minimal effort using fresh ingredients. That juicy and tender steak you had at the restaurant can ...

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The company ChefSteps stripped away controls and touchscreens on its Joule immersion circulator and packs them into a polished app to teach you how to sous vide. Ashlee Clark Thompson Associate Editor ...

The Joule Sous Vide cooker is obviously very popular right now, but is it really worth the hefty $200 price tag? Do you really need to control your sous vide with a smartphone? No, of course you don’t ...

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