"Until my girlfriend's dad gifted us the Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker ($199), cooking meat was a mystery I convinced myself I'd never solve. Between salmonella-poisoning flashbacks filling me with fear of undercooked meat and the crushing defeat of burning meat to a tasteless crisp, I'd resigned myself to pre-cooked chicken and pasta forever. This precision cooker changed that. The tool's foolproof process and user-friendly app has allowed me, a culinary doofus, to cook any and all meat to perfection every time — and it's given me a wealth of new recipes in the process. Not to mention, cleanup post-meal is an absolute breeze." — Theresa Massony, senior editor, living