Mmmmm some amazing cooked meats... I love cooking and food. and Cooking food. I learned of this cooking technique known and sous vide. This involves placing food in a vacuum bag and floating in hot water set to the exact temperature you want it to cook to. Resulting in perfectly cooked product every time. It's a pretty amazing technique but requires a system for tracking the temperature of the water and adjusting it as needed to keep it there.
I really wanted one of these devices but they are pretty expensive. So looking online for alternatives and found that people had been using a rice cooker with a pid controller to do that same basic thing. So went ahead and built my own.
Here in my blue box is a little relay for switching on and off the power
A standard power socket.
An arduino nano to control the system.
a 16x2 LCD for displaying the output and a few buttons for controlling the settings.
As well as a temp probe that you place into the cooker.
The software it setup so you can set the temp you want to target. Plug the rice cooker into the box. And let it go. It will turn the power on and off on the rice cooker. Attempting to keep the temp at the desired level.
It worked out pretty good. Had some great results cooking a nice steak in this thing. Don't forget to finish the meat in a pan, or you wont get your nice crusty outer layer!
