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hey I'm seen that's right Crist today we're going to take a look at sous-vide cooking which means to cook things at a consistent temperature in a water bath with circulation and vacuum sealing to help keep the flavors in you're probably saying that's a crock pot right that's not a sous-vide cooker well with the dork food DSV it can be a sous-vide cooker now the DSV is really just this device here it's an industrial-grade temperature controller that uses this black rubber probe to monitor the temperature of the water so you're going to stick this into the crock pot filled with water make sure it's not touching the sides and then it'll start reading the temperature it'll tell you at 71 you hold down the set button and that is going to set it to the temperature you want so you just get up to 136 140 145 whatever you want hit set again and then BOOM it's going to start heating up to that temperature using the crock pots actual heating element you'll plug your crock-pot into the door QD sv and it'll cycle the power on and off to get to that target temperature and keep it there now this approach won't work with all slow cookers you need a slow cooker that as soon as you turn it on its heating up so this really means this one of the physical dial a cheap one like this one where you can turn it to high leave it on high as soon as you plug it in it's on high that'll work if you aren't sure if yours will work just set it to high and unplug it and plug it back in if it goes back to high it'll work with dork food if not you might need to get a different one now we tested the DSV alongside the Innova the nama coup some other sous-vide cookers that are a little more comprehensive those have built-in heating elements and built-in fans for circulating the water and maintaining that temperatures consistency the dork food doesn't have that doesn't have a fan so I wasn't sure be able to do as good of a job but lo and behold it did great it poached eggs it cooked salmon I was able to get nice medium-rare edge to edge pink meat in it pork ribs you name it it kept up with a Nova nama COO in every test did a very nice job the dork food DSV retails for $99 and that's a pretty attractive price point compared to the Innova cooker which costs $1.99 and nama coo which sells for $2.99 unlike those though the dork food doesn't have the attractive design or the all in one aspect doesn't have a touchscreen or a physical dial you can only set to whole degrees you can't set to tenth of a degree like you can with nama ku but still I think it offers a lot of value for anybody looking to experiment with sous-vide who doesn't care so much about a glamorous looking kitchen so all in all kind of a dorky approach to sous-vide cooking but one that I think does the job really well thanks for watching and be sure to check out my full review on cnet.com for CNET appliances i'm right wrist