Tuxton Home will soon be releasing it’s sous vide stainless steel pot which incorporates a hole in the lid for your sous vide immersion circulator. If you want to learn more about sous vide cooking, click here. Tuxton Home position themselves as a “quality provider of restaurant-grade kitchenware”. Their range includes stainless steel cookware and accessories. And that is where their new sous vide stainless steel pot comes in.
Lids have many benefits for your sous vide cooking
Having a lid on your sous vide water bath, whether it is a pot or a larger container, is helpful in a couple of ways:
- It ensures that on long sous vide cooks you don’t lose too much water through evaporation
- The lid acts as an insulator for your water bath which means your water temperature remains constant. This is very important for a successful sous vide cook
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Custom lids are very popular with many sous viders, but we normally see lids used on top of larger sous vide container. Sous viders use larger polycarbonate containers so that they can cook more food at once. Many sous vide containers come with custom made lids.
Is the new Tuxton Home sous vide stainless steel pot a winner?
The proof is always in the pudding as they say. Well in this case, the proof will be in the sous vide cooking. results. The concept of using a snugly fitting lid with a hole for an immersion circulator is proven. But the question will be whether this pot is large enough to house a sous vide immersion circulator and a decent sized food pouch (or food pouches) as well. Plus, the design must also allow for an even circulation of water in and around your food for the entire sous vide cooking period.
The Tuxton Home Chef Series sous vide pot puts a new spin on traditional cooking with the bonus of a lid specially designed to fit most sous vide immersion cookers. The lid has a silicone rim to seal against water evaporation and a 2.4-inch sous vide cooker adapter hole with a removable stopper. The stopper allows you to use this lid for other cooking purposes as well.
The pot is made with professional grade triply stainless steel body. It has solid welded ergonomic stainless steel handles. Tuxton Home stainless steel cookware is compatible with all stove tops, including induction, and is dishwasher and oven safe. Their products come with a lifetime guarantee which is always a bonus.
Which sous vide immersion circulators will work with this pot?
Tuxton Home confirms that this stainless steel sous vide pot will work with most sous vide immersion cooker brands. This includes the Chefman, Strata Home, the Anova, the Joule, and “more”. You should check with Tuxton Home before you purchase the pot to make sure it can be used with any other sous vide immersion circulator brand you may have.
Amazon suggests the Tuxton Home sous vide stainless steel pot will be released on 30 April 2018. We will watch with interest to see what sous viders think as they give this sous vide pot a whirl. Of course we will report back on that initial feedback soon.