Part I: Simplifying Dinner with Sous Vide Supreme

Mom Central received a complimentary Sous Vide Supreme in order to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed here are our own.

As home cooks continue to grow in sophistication due to the prevalence of the Food Network, shows such as Bravo’s Top Chef, and the expanding body of cooking blogs and celebrity cookbooks, many once-unfamiliar cooking techniques – including macerate, deglaze, julienne, and flambé – now take place every day in kitchens across America.

But sous vide? This French technique involves slow-cooking vacuum-sealed food in a water bath to lock in flavors and nutrients. Yet, for a long time, sous vide cooking seemed destined to remain part of the professional chef’s repertoire. In fact, many Americans may never have even heard of it until Hung Huynh – Top Chef’s first champion – used it week after week on his quest for the Top Chef crown.

But that all ended when Eads Appliance Technology unveiled Sous Vide Supreme, a sous vide machine that allows home cooks to achieve healthy, tender, flavorful cuisine with an easy-to-operate home machine. Available in two sizes, the original and the more-petite Demi model, the Sous Vide Supreme now fits right alongside other popular cooking tools ranging from pasta makers to smokers to professional-grade mixers, fryers, and food processers, allowing serious foodies and home cooks to whip up restaurant-quality cuisine right at home.

Moreover, the Sous Vide Supreme provides a lifeline to Moms who love to cook, yet continuously search for better, easier ways to create fabulous meals in between running middle school carpool and shuttling kids to softball practice. For most sous vide meals, food simply needs to be seasoned, vacuum-sealed, and then tossed into to the Sous Vide Supreme.

Meat and poultry cook anywhere from one to four hours, fish 30 to 45 minutes, and vegetables 45 to 60 minutes. Moms can turn on the Sous Vide Supreme, then dash off for a cycle of piano-practice and orthodontist-appointment runs. Best of all, many foods cooked in the Sous Vide Supreme can remain in the water bath longer than required – an important meal-saving feature when soccer practice runs late or your toddler suffers a prolonged meltdown.

With Sous Vide Supreme, each chicken packet can be quickly prepared according to taste and then cooked in one batch. And the end-product of Mom as a short-order cook? Mounds of dishes, sauce pans, measuring cups, and spoons each night. Yet when cooks prepare food in the Sous Vide Supreme, clean-up times drop off dramatically as food cooks in the water oven instead of an assortment of pots and pans.

While some Food TV cooking techniques – molecular gastronomy-inspired basil foam, for example – prove too challenging for a typical Wednesday night, the Sous Vide Supreme offers Moms the ability to create gourmet-quality meals, even on a hectic weeknight. Look for Part II of our review (link coming soon!) where we offer up a series of time-saving and mouth-watering recipes using the Sous Vide Supreme.

For more info and to purchase, go to to sousvidesupreme.com.

Stacy DeBroff

Stacy DeBroff, founder and CEO of Mom Central.com and social and digital consultancy, Influence Central, is a social media strategist, attorney, and best-selling parenting author. A sought-after expert for national media, she trend-spots regularly with national brands and speaks frequently to national and international audiences on a wide range of subjects, including influencer marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, and consumer trends. A passionate cook, gardener, reader, and tennis player, she adores this new chapter of post-college-age parenting.