Hi Everyone,
Here is my initial unboxing and trial run of the new Inkbird Wifi Sous Vide. I order the sous vide when Inkbird had the 30% off for friends deal from Amazon. The unit was delivered pretty quickly about 1 week and was packaged very securely.
Initial thoughts on the unit: the unit it self appears to be very well built, stainless steel, sturdy plastic, quite heavy and generally feels like it would be dependable. There are no real instruction with the unit, a small pamphlet with a quick start guide, also would be nice if it came with a sock/bag or something to store the unit.
Setup: it was quite easy to setup the unit, just download the app as per instructions, register and sync the sous vide unit to your phone. I did find 1 problem with the setup of the app, on the lower left corner of the app when you get the sous vide unit sync'd, the first icon is where you change your preferences for Fahrenheit or Celsius and fine tune the temperature output. The labels are in Chinese they are pretty easy to figure out but just in case anyone is wondering what they saying, nice to have a wife that can read Chinese.
First test: my first run with the unit was just to make sure that it was working properly. I put the unit into a plastic container with 3 gallons of water, and set the temp to 150 degrees for 2 hours, the starting water temp was 65 degrees. It took 33 minutes for the water to reach 150 degrees, not sure if it would be quicker with a insulated container for the water, the container was quite hot to the touch and I think with out the considerable radiant heat lose it might heat up quicker. I did check the temperature of the water through out the 2 hours with my Inkbird IBT-4XS thermometer (of course) and the sous vide temp was spot on with the external thermometer.
So far without actually cooking anything with it, I am very happy with the unit. I plan to cook some pork chops this weekend and will let you know how it goes.
Here is my initial unboxing and trial run of the new Inkbird Wifi Sous Vide. I order the sous vide when Inkbird had the 30% off for friends deal from Amazon. The unit was delivered pretty quickly about 1 week and was packaged very securely.
Initial thoughts on the unit: the unit it self appears to be very well built, stainless steel, sturdy plastic, quite heavy and generally feels like it would be dependable. There are no real instruction with the unit, a small pamphlet with a quick start guide, also would be nice if it came with a sock/bag or something to store the unit.
Setup: it was quite easy to setup the unit, just download the app as per instructions, register and sync the sous vide unit to your phone. I did find 1 problem with the setup of the app, on the lower left corner of the app when you get the sous vide unit sync'd, the first icon is where you change your preferences for Fahrenheit or Celsius and fine tune the temperature output. The labels are in Chinese they are pretty easy to figure out but just in case anyone is wondering what they saying, nice to have a wife that can read Chinese.
First test: my first run with the unit was just to make sure that it was working properly. I put the unit into a plastic container with 3 gallons of water, and set the temp to 150 degrees for 2 hours, the starting water temp was 65 degrees. It took 33 minutes for the water to reach 150 degrees, not sure if it would be quicker with a insulated container for the water, the container was quite hot to the touch and I think with out the considerable radiant heat lose it might heat up quicker. I did check the temperature of the water through out the 2 hours with my Inkbird IBT-4XS thermometer (of course) and the sous vide temp was spot on with the external thermometer.
So far without actually cooking anything with it, I am very happy with the unit. I plan to cook some pork chops this weekend and will let you know how it goes.