BOOM: Sansaire Circulator Raises $823k On Kickstarter

06 Friday Sep 2013

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Scott’s vision to introduce the world to the wonders of sous vide cooking took a huge step this morning when the Sansaire Kickstarter closed this morning with 4084 backers contributing over $823,000 dollars. It is now the most funded food Kickstarter ever. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, you can pre-order units at the Sansaire website.

A big congrats to the Sansaire team – we’re looking forward to heating up perfect eggs and tender steaks. In the meantime, just one thing comes to mind: BOOM.

Jethro

Sansaire, The $199 Circulator: A Brief History

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

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The Beautiful Sansaire Sous Vide Circulator

Jet City Gastrophysics co-founder, Director of Applied Research at Modernist Cuisine, recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 award, and all around awesome dude Scott Heimendinger has really done it this time. He’s taken his DIY $75 sous vide immersion circulator and scaled it up to a full fledged commercial project – the Sansaire sous vide circulator. Raising funds using Kickstarter, he and his team have managed to achieve their goal of $100,000 in just 13 hours. And it’s still going – over $485,000 at the time this was published.

But just how did he get from tinkering at home to mass production? Well, let me tell you.

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