Joule: Sous Vide by ChefSteps
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | Free | ChefSteps Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The Joule App includes groundbreaking features like Visual Doneness, precise temperature control from anywhere, and a robust collection of recipes and cooking guides created by the ChefSteps team. Joule and its app were built and designed from scratch to work together, and we’re just as dedicated to the quality of our products as we are to the food we make with them. You can read more about Joule and the Joule App in publications like CNET, Wired, Lifehacker, Food & Wine, and Network World.
HOW DOES THE JOULE APP WORK?
You tell us what you’re cooking, we tell you when it’s ready. Making a two-inch steak? Great. Just tap the Start button, and Joule will set a timer for perfect doneness. Get notified when your steak is ready—and we’ll also tell you how much longer it can stay in the water without overcooking.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE JOULE APP?
• Exclusive access to our cooking guides: The app comes with step-by-step guides for everything from perfect fried chicken, to succulent salmon, to the best steak you’ve ever had in your life, helping you unlock the power of sous vide. What’s even better? We’ll keep adding new guides (and updating old ones) all the time.
• Visual Doneness: Choose exactly how you want your food to look when it’s done, then press go, and Joule does the rest. No more filtering through online forums to get the information you need. Visual Doneness takes the guesswork out of sous vide.
• Step-by-step instructions, so you can learn as you go: Every cooking guide comes loaded with quick videos that’ll teach you new techniques and help you get the best results.
• Notifications that let you know when your water is hot and your food is done, no matter where you are. Not ready to eat? We’ll tell you how much longer your food can stay in without overcooking.
• Bluetooth and Wifi control, so you can cook from anywhere.
WHAT IS SOUS VIDE COOKING AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
Chefs have been cooking sous vide for decades to get perfect proteins and amazing new textures. But, it’s not fancy or complicated—Joule heats water to a very specific temperature, so you can cook food gently, with super-human precision. The water never gets hotter than you want the food to be, so it won’t overcook.
HOW DO I GET JOULE?
Visit chefsteps.com/joule to learn more.
CAN I STILL USE THE JOULE APP IF I HAVE ANOTHER SOUS VIDE TOOL, LIKE NOMIKU, SANSAIRE, OR ANOVA?
Absolutely! You can still use our sous vide guides and Visual Doneness in the Joule App to figure out your favorite times and temperatures, then manually set your other tool and make amazing meals at home.
LEGALESE:
Terms of Use and Sale - https://www.chefsteps.com/terms
Limited Warranty - https://www.chefsteps.com/joule/warranty
EULA - https://www.chefsteps.com/eula
Privacy Policy - https://www.chefsteps.com/privacy
By downloading, installing or using the Joule app, you agree to the End User License Agreement.
Currently, this app is only available in English.
Reviews
Good but has a bug
brett_lands
Works well. Asks me to enable notifications but when I click "okay" it just brings me to the settings app, not enabling notifications.
I love it!
Finance76
Great device and app! My only complaint so far is don’t close the recipe when you stop the Joule.
Unnecessarily dumbed down
Xtopad
Not only is the ersatz ‘chipper’ tone annoying, it gets in the way of efficiently using the device. It would be nice if there were a toggle to turn off the cute. More crucially, there still isn’t implementation of basic functionality that was teased a year ago, eg using the top button to start again the same temp as last used. And obvious capabilities such as a workable log (which would have to allow you to assign titles to your cooks) or a more full featured custom cook creation option would at least partly justify the necessity of using a smart device to operate the sous vide. I have created my own time and temp profiles for everything I cook ... which I have to log separately and track changes for... and share with the 4 other families I have bought sous vide for (not all joules, because my in laws can’t handle a device without built-in controls). You would think the social sharing potential alone would motivate these wannabe hipsters to build in the ability to set custom cooks... but instead they pour development energy into another cutesy notification that makes me never want to tap on the app ever again. Enough with the style over substance.
Love Joule
Brande Waddle
I love Joule! I can ask my kids to pull the pot out of the fridge and stick the Joule in the pot. I can start dinner before I leave work and it is ready by the time I get home. It doesn’t get any better than that. There are a couple of things I’d like to see happen. 1. The ability to add a recipe or have a way to save a time and temperature with a name. Some sort of quick setting. 2. I would like to see more chefsteps recipes added to the app. I hate having to leave the app to go to chefsteps to get Sous Vide recipes and then have to go back to Joule and enter that info
Just a suggestion
Halland12
I love my Joule and the app is great, but I think what would make it even better is if we could add information to our cook history. Like being able to write what was cooked,edit what we did, not just manual cook displayed with the time and temperature. Just a suggestion!
Recipes are in ounces and grams
Jessie Hillebrand
I have been loving the heck out of my Joule and the ChefSteps recipes except that preparation is burdened by having to convert to the US system of measurement, not the worst problem but it does take some time. Or maybe there’s a setting somewhere that I can change?
Amazing
Dodger2488
The joule machine works amazing! The app is good too but it does stall sometimes when showing videos or connecting.
Love the Joule
Surprised11
I’ve really enjoyed using the Joule and the app. I use it all the time to cook amazing dishes that I could never otherwise cook (e.g. 48 hr short ribs cooked medium, perfectly cooked edge to edge steaks, etc.). I’ve recommended it to dozens of people. I’m not sure why some reviewers are complaining about minor non-essential features they’d like to have, or glitches that can probably be solved with a quick reinstall or update! To the Joule tech and chef teams: Keep up the great work guys!
Joule
Thisappsuk
OK so better than most apps for sous vide but several bugs like notifications when on Bluetooth don’t come up till you re-open the app, and if you were connected to WiFi but decide to use on Bluetooth only it keeps asking to join or fix WiFi connection.
