Modernist Cooking Blog: How Much Energy Does Sous Vide Use? The Sous Vide Power Consumption Benchmark

On this website, as well as other places online such as the sous vide subreddit, there are often questions regarding the power consumption of sous vide cooking. Questions like the following:

How much power is used for a typical sous vide cook?
How much impact does the water bath insulation have on sous vide power usage?
How do water ovens compare to sous vide immersion circulators on power usage?
Is sous vide power usage something that we really need to be concerned about?

Motivated by this and our own curiosity, we decided to define and run a Sous Vide Power Consumption Benchmark to gather some empirical data on this interesting topic. Hopefully, this article will answer some of the questions you have regarding power usage during sous vide cooking.

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