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Originally Posted by yimyammer
played with this thing (Heston Cue) any more?
Do you get to keep it?
I get to keep it for 2 weeks (i'm at 11 days right now).
I'll say upfront that i'm probably not their target audience (i'm guessing this targets people who are more new to cooking). It wasn't even clear to me before using it what problem they were trying to solve with it, and now after using it, it just seems stupidly over-engineered to me. Chefsteps said there were specific dishes they wanted me to prepare, but i never heard back from them, so the first thing i tried to do was sear a sous-vide chicken thigh.
I set it all up, and install the app, which crashes several times. It also takes several attempts to pair with the device(s). Fine, whatever, teething problems. I get it all working, and go to pull up chicken thigh instructions. Except it doesn't have it. It has 100+ much more complex recipes, like chicken breast with tomatoes, garlic and some other stuff. Not ideal, but i'll just use that and skip to the part that concerns me.
Except it doesn't work that way. Each step in the recipe has a little instructional clip that accompanies it, and you can't skip them and each new clip autostarts (with a loud DING), so even though its supposed to make the cooking process more linear, it makes it more restrictive, because you have to be right there for each part. About 3 minutes into this whole episode i just got frustrated, because it wasn't doing what i wanted it to, and just took over manual control of the induction stovetop and finished searing it on my own. Then i washed it all and put it back in the box, where its sat since then.
Its a nice looking induction stovetop, and if it was at the right price point i wouldn't mind that (esp with the ability to control it from your smartphone), but the "smart" pan, app and whole ecosystem seem pretty poorly thought out, and i def wouldn't spend $500 on this.