Despite the recent rise of affordable sous vide machines, the cooking concept has always skewed a little nerdy. Preparing food in vacuum-sealed bags in a temperature-controlled water bath sounds like ...

ChefSteps hardware lead Kevin Finke, CEO Chris Young and software lead Emmett Barton with Joule at the ChefSteps headquarters at Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Measuring just 11 inches tall and 1.85 ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 30, 2019 at ...

When I interviewed Chris Young a few weeks ago at the Smart Kitchen Summit, the CEO of the cooking education company ChefSteps didn't come out and say that they were about to launch their own cooking ...

In July 2019, high-end kitchen appliance brand Breville acquired ChefSteps, the company behind the popular Joule sous vide circulator. Breville has now released the first Joule product under its own ...

Ashlee spent time as a newspaper reporter, AmeriCorps VISTA and an employee at a healthcare company before she landed at CNET. She loves to eat, write and watch "Golden Girls" (preferably all three at ...

This is the story of how a video game mogul, an airplane engineer, a scientist, a designer, and a bunch of chefs developed a new immersion circulator they named Joule. “It’s kind of a strange story,” ...

Cooking sous vide (French for ‘under vacuum’) involves the slow process of cooking vacuum-sealed meats and vegetables in low heat in a water bath. The method takes a long time (typically one to seven ...

“From day one, our goal at ChefSteps has been to help passionate cooks be creative and confident in the kitchen,” said Chris Young, CEO and co-founder of ChefSteps. “Sous vide is a big part of what we ...

Many of my friends have been gushing over their sous vide machines for years. New parents claimed they could make a week’s worth of baby food with it. Busy couples rejoiced that they could sous vide ...