5 Kitchen Tools for the High-Tech Chef

An immersion circulator is a machine that creates a controlled water bath: a pump circulates the water, and an electrical element heats it, holding the temperature steady to within a tenth of a degree. "It makes up the lifeblood of a lot of our cooking," Dufresne says.

This level of temperature control makes the immersion circulator a trusty workhorse in the lab, where scientists often need to run experiments at exact temperatures. But over the past decade, there has been an explosion of chefs who are discovering that this precision also makes it a great kitchen tool. The method it's used for is called sous-vide: cooking plastic-bagged food for a long time at a low temperature.

An immersion circulator can take a nice rib-eye, for example, to a perfect medium-rare temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit and hold it there for hours, giving you the flexibility to whip up the rest of the meal whenever you feel like it. "I can throw a piece of meat in there in the morning, and when I get home, it's still sitting in the Jacuzzi as happy as a clam," says Dufresne.

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