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hey I'm seen that's right Crist and I'm back in the kitchen with the Nova to test out the second generation a nova precision cooker this is an immersion circulator that offers sous-vide cooking shops for at affordable $179 a much better price than you might get from an all-in-one water bath or even some other emergency relators that cost a little more we did all the usual tests with this one eggs and poached salmon the one that really jumped out was our flank steak test we took a nice tasty but tough cut a flank steak and cooked it in here for 24 hours and man did that come out fantastic the meat was tender and juicy it sliced like roast beef tasted amazing very happy with that result this one also adds in bluetooth cooking smarts so you've got a Bluetooth radio in this thing and a dedicated ANOVA app pull the app up and you can control the device remotely setting the timer setting the temperature and also looking through a catalog of recipes if you see one that you like you can hit start and send those settings straight to the machine so for instance if I wanted to make this salmon recipe I've got my vacuum filled salmon here I just find salmon in the app look at all the different recipes find one that looks good open it up and then hit that little Start button and boom the Innova starts cooking to that temperature and on that timer now exciting as that might sound I thought that the app controls were a little clunky and the recipes were fine about the same thing as you can find online so it's not a huge deal I would like those app smarts if they were Wi-Fi enabled and not just bluetooth it only has that 50 foot radius or so so I say hold out for Wi-Fi cookers if you really want that smart functionality both ANOVA and anomic you have Wi-Fi pictures coming out later this year but if all you want is a simple sous-vide starting point that's going to produce really tasty food the Innova precision cooker is a very safe bet thanks for watching check out the rest of our smart home and appliance reviews at cnet.com for seen at appliances I'm right Chris you