I bought a full sous vide unit and vacuum packaging in 2011 and don't use it at all now.

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Sous vide chez moi?

and several posts about the steaks I cooked using sous vide in this thread ....

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To be honest I bought one and now consider it one of those things I wanted rather than needed.