PolyScience Sous Vide Toolbox App Reviews

I have cooked sous vide for years and never realized how much the time required would be impacted by variations in thickness. With this app I can nail my timing, run "what if" by changing temperature by a degree or two and I have insight to pathogen reduction. The app works great as does my PolyScience immersion circulator.

Great app; clear and concise and kind of a must.

I purchased both Polyscience Sous Vide Toolbox and Sous Vide Dash on the same day thinking they might be different. Anyone who thinks theyre not functionally identical is misinformed. The ONLY differences are the colors and the selection of circulators. Polyscience Sous Vide Toolbox even refers to itself as "Sous Vide Dash" within the app. PSVT allows you to select from a wider range of Polyscience circulators than SVD and unlike SVD does not allow selection of other brands of equipment (though it does include "Generic Non-circulating" and "Generic Circulating"). This is a useful tool for estimating time-to-temperature for various thicknesses and shapes of food and for estimating reduction in 3 pathogens (E. Coli, Listeria sp., and Salmonella sp.) Its flexible and has fairly reasonable defaults, and includes a fairly wide range of specific foods so you can select lamb loin chops vs. rib chops instead of just going by shape and size. My recommendation is to buy Polyscience Sous Vide Toolbox if you have a Polyscience circulator or like red, or buy Sous Vide Dash if you have a different brand of equipment or like yellow. One or the other is certainly worthwhile if you plan to cook anything sous vide.

Very limited, cant select a whole chicken !!! Will not recommend.

I bought this to get the cooking temp and time for veal. It wasnt listed, only common cuts of meat which anyone can find on the internet.

App works decently for simple cooking demands but will not calculate cooking times beyond 6 hours. If you want to cook a piece of meat for 30 hours this app will not accommodate your request.

This app is terrible. Horrible interface and doesnt work correctly.

Would love to return this app. Totally useless. 1.5 inch steak doesnt take 3 hours at 58c.

Cooking times are off. Told me 1h40m for a 1" thick salmon fillet (at 129F). Other recipes called for no more than 30m. I took it out at 1h and it was thoroughly done. Gave similarly long times for dishes Ive successfully made in the past at shorter times. And thats just on time to core temp, not even pasteurized.

I actually do a considerable amount of sous vide cooking from frozen. It lets me keep steaks around without worrying about them going bad. I wish this app allowed a starting temperature into the frozen range handled by most refridgerators.

total trash. Dont waste your money.

User interface is straight out of 1990. Doesnt have the ability to predict cooking times for frozen food. Not worth buying; better options are available.