INKBIRD WIFI Sous Vide Cooker ISV-100W, 1000 Watts Sous Vide Machine Immersion Circulator with 14 Preset Recipes on APP & Calibration Function, Thermal Immersion, Fast-Heating with Timer

I purchased this in Feb 2023. I wanted a reasonable amount of time before submitting a review, not only detailing what I thought about its performance and my first impressions - but also my assessment of it's durability and reliability over the course of 12+ months. This is a really nice immersion cooker. For the price, it holds its weight very well against the big brand models thats 2-3x the cost. I've used this model about 25-30 times in the last 14 months. I've cooked beef steaks, roasts, tenderloins, fishand brisket. All cooked wonderfully with accurate water temp. I tested numerously at different stages of cooking with my instant thermometer. Reflected temp is dead on. On a few recipes, there is a small trial and error on temp and cooking time to nail your own personal taste and texture preference. I record my perfect temp and times and every cook after that comes out perfect. With steaks, chops, roasts and tenderloins, I will always sous vide as my first option. Juiciest and tender from all other methods I've used. The only con (which is relative) is the amount of time needed to cook. Sous vide method is not the fastest but quite set and forget cooking that requires very little monitoring and affords a wide margin of error. I use cast iron or my food torch to brown food after sous vide is done. Comes out great. The inkbird app for this model works awesome. I've never had it fail. You can open the app and monitor cooking time, verify current temp, modify temp, modify cooking time, get alerts for low liquid level, among other things. Once connected to your home network, you can control it remotely from your phone, anywhere that your phone has internet. If there's one point of criticism, it's that I've seen other models circulate the water with more turbulence. I'm guessing those models have either larger impeller or faster rpm on the impeller. That being said, I'm not convinced it's relevant here as I've never had the heater not maintain temp despite the size and volume of food I've cooked in the container. I'd have to to test it in a really big volume container, I guess - but I don't have a need to get one bigger than the one I have (12 quart). Maybe one other area may be the spring clip that secures the heater to the container. It's holding up great so far after a year's use, but I'm not sure if this mechanism is better than a screw and knob style retention system. I'll revisit, maybe, after another year of use. So far, so good though. This is my first sous vide cooker - and I never thought I'd love it this much. Sous vide is a method every casual to seasoned cook should try regardless of brand of cooker you use. The method is just that good and forgiving. Results are awesome. If you want a good bang for the buck, this inkbird should be worth an audition. I've never looked back.

Very accurate Sous Vide so far. We use it for chemical analysis not cooking. I have a different brand we use for cooking and this one works a lot better.

My go to for perfect steaks. Controlable cook times, allow you to prep whatever you are cooking, get them in the water and cooking. then you can clean real quick to prep the next thing before you remove it and allow the meat to rest then sear or serve! Super easy to use, the BT and WiFi setting are awesome as well!

I've used imersion cookers for years. The Inkbird is a great unit with an easy to configure app for your smartphone. I purchased two of these units, one for home and one for cooking at a remote kitchen when traveling. Very accurate and well built. The only fault for me is the clamp. It can't be used on large picnic coolers when cooking larger volumes. I rectified this by making a standoff clamp using PVC pipe. Overall a great unit for any home kitchen. Easy to use, very accurate temperature control, easy to clean. Also a great unit for those who are unsure about Sous Vide cooking, you won't regret it.

Works well, glad this was my into to sous vide.

Simple to use. Good results on steaks, so far

Very quiet, temperature is spot on, and the app works perfectly. The only negative is that the product description states 20 liter maximum. The included instructions (yes, I am one of those guys that actually read them) clearly states 15 liter maximum.

More difficult to use, less dependable than other sous vide wands I have used. I thought I was moving up in quality, and while the heavier than usual wand delivered good results and was quiet, after about 6months the problems started. I am not a heavy user of sous vide technique, but I do depend upon when it is used. This unit is more complex in settings, not intuitive to set and probably requires more frequent use to be quickly set up when it is used. But I persevered and used it until it stopped keeping temperature consistent about 6 months after purchase. I would have to keep checking the temperature to be sure it hadn't stopped heating since the water was circulating and I assumed it was working . A short while later, it stopped circulating the water for periods of time while in use. Lost several bags of meat and chicken before I gave up on it. When I contacted the manufacturer for help, I got a list of things I HAD TO DO before anyone would contact me, including sending in videos and photographs of the problems. Well, exactly how do you do that? I would have to hold a camera, a thermometer and figure out what was wrong myself to know what to video tape and then couldn't send one in a form that wouldn't be too large! If I could figure out how to do it to begin with! So I am tossing it. Will go back to other brands to find something with a longer user life and an easier to program set up. I have had the top brands and the less expensive brands and often gifted them to others not familiar with sous vide since I have found it so positive in preserving perfectly cooked protein. This one has been miserable to deal with not long after purchase (actually, from the start if you include the difficult programming) and their response to my issues with it were impossible or non existent.