Maker to Market: Lisa Fetterman Shares Her Nomiku Story
Lisa Fetterman was a cooking enthusiast who wanted to make sous vide devices more affordable, and that meant learning some maker skills.
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A Ti-Powered Sous-Vide Cooker
If you thought microcontroller-enabled cooking was only for Arduinos, Trey German contacted me with his sous-vide cooker, built around a Texas Instruments MSP430F5529 USB LaunchPad. The code was derived from a pre-existing Arduino sketch from Adafruit. They’ve got a tutorial on this technique with an arduino here. The food that Trey cooked with it, a […]
DIY Sous-Vide Cooker
A sous-vide immersion cooker is a tool used, generally in high end restaurants, to cook food immersed in water. I didn’t know what this technique was, but based on the pictures of the finished steak in Matthew Arbesfeld’s project write-up, I’m now a huge fan. One reason why these cookers are not generally found in […]
Sous Vide Device Co-Inventor Lisa Q. Fetterman Headed to White House Maker Faire
San Francisco maker pro Lisa Q. Fetterman is excited about her ticket to White House Maker Faire tomorrow.
Look out Nomiku. Here Comes Codlo
I’ve been tracking the progress of Nomiku, a consumer class immersion circulator, highest grossing food project on Kickstarter, and Haxlr8r success story. The product aims to bring to fancy restaurant technology into the home kitchen with a device that clips onto a pot of water to heat it to precise temperatures, allowing you to cook meat sous vide. The technique of slow cooking meat in a vacuum sealed bag is de rigueur at high-end restaurants, but out of reach for home users because of the price. While it hasn’t started shipping yet, Nomiku will retail for $359 and the creators call it the first immersion circulator for the home cook. But look out Nomiku. Here’s comes the second sous vide device for the home cook: Codlo
Dual Stage Heating/Cooling Temperature Controller with RGB Display
I am probably flattering myself, taking any sort of credit for inspiring this sweet custom temperature controller built by Adafruit reader Mike to keep his beer-brewing fridge at a constant temperature. Like my recent project, it simultaneously controls AC-powered heating and cooling equipment to maintain a constant temperature, and is mounted in a CANTEX PVC junction box. But there the similarities pretty much end: Whereas I used a cheap off-the-shelf thermostat module from China, Mike built and programmed his own controller using an Arduino for brains, an Xbee for remote temperature control and data logging, and a cool multicolor LED display with letters that turn red when the system is heating, blue when it is cooling, and green when it is at the correct temperature.
Jake’s Laser-Cut Sous-Vide Controller
Jake Spurlock, our resident I.T. ninja, built this STC-1000-based water bath temperature controller from my recent Make: Project guide. Jake, who works from MAKE HQ in Sebastopol, was able to misappropr…er, borrow some time on the office laser cutter to make the front panel, instead of relying on the drill, saw, and files I had to use. (No, I’m not jealous. What gave you that idea?) Jake reports success with sous-vide eggs, and is moving on to steaks.
