High expectations, but overall dissapointing.

Im just getting started with sous vide cooking, and was looking for some good sous vide cooking apps to get me started. Since this app was $5 and looked like it had all the necessary cooking times for various meats that Id typically put in the sous vide cooker, I trout that this would be quite the bargain, but boy was I wrong.

Overall, this app is a calculator app to tell you what the minimum time it would take for your meat to achieve the desired internal temperature. However, it doesnt take some things into consideration, like food safety. If you want a medium rare steak at 135 degrees, the minimum safe time that it has to hold at that temperature is around one hour and 45 minutes. If you cook it for less, you have a good chance of having food poisoning. This app tells you that the time to cook that same piece of meat is only about 35 minutes. Which is technically correct, to get the internal temp up, but not correct when it comes to food safety.

Also this app does not take into consideration that part of the magic of sous vide is low and slow cooking. To make a hanger steak taste like filet is the fact that you leave the lower quality steak in for ten hours. This tenderizes the steak and makes it so delicious. Sous vide is not a microwave! This app would be much more valuable if the developers would factor the type of meat and display the recommended time to tenderize that particular type of meat.

kill with kindness about SousVide Dash, v1.2.1