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As soon as I said "pop the sous vide in it and put it in the shed", I got the nod.
In do have a 12l stock pot, which will take care of most big things. Just how good is such a toiny wand at cooking something that needs a 24l container?
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It's very good at holding the temperature, how quickly it will come up to that temperature depends on how cold the water was at the beginning. I even managed to top up the water in the bath tub when our boiler was broken.
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I'm not quite sure what the question is.
Things like a leg of lamb are an awkward shape and I don't have a stockpot so would have had to buy one. The cooler was probably cheaper than any stockpot and I got a load of shit for buying the wand in the first place, so bringing a massive stock pot would have been even worse.
Filling it up is a bit of effort, but not that bad. I usually fill it with hot tap water and a couple of nearly boiled kettles, then let it get up/down to temp. I also use two cheap rachet straps to reinforce the sides now.
sohi
hugo7
One limiting thing about SV wands I would point out though is the container size.
The wands are very big. There is a good chance your biggest saucepan isn't actually as big as you think and water evaporates.
I made a cool box which handily stores the wand, bags, old spoons and clothes pegs for weights.
See here for more details:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14779029/
and
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14779032/