Meet #anovafoodnerd and Anova Precision Oven recipe creator Sharee!

We’re back with more tasty Anova Precision Oven recipes and this week we are highlighting #anovafoodnerd and recipe creator Sharee! Sharee runs the cooking blog Savory Spicerack, what she calls a little blog with BIG flavor! She believes that cooking should never be boring, and dinner should always excite you!

Meet Sharee below, and see what she’s been cooking up with the Precision Oven and how it’s helped her deliver BIG flavor!

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The Trio Behind 3 Black Chefs

Earlier this year, three all-star chefs – known as the 3 Black Chefs – teamed up to offer pop-up dinners to those facing food insecurity in their neighborhood of Sacramento. The brainchild of chef trio Berry Accius, Mike Harris and Willis Webster, 3 Black Chefs launched The Project: Feeding Our Beloved Community, offering low-cost, to-go soul food to families at the Pannell Meadowview Community center.

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Meet Chef Kitiya Ditpare from TacoThai

Earlier this year, Anova donated 17 precision cookers to La Cocina – a San Francisco kitchen incubator focused on low-income food entrepreneurs – to support 13 businesses across the San Francisco Bay area. Since 2005, La Cocina has exclusively focused on small business incubation. Their vision is to increase inclusivity in the food industry and offer equitable opportunity for marginalized communities – specifically working class women of color and immigrant women.

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Why is cooking with steam healthy?

Over the decades there have been hundreds of dieting and healthy eating fads. Some require stringent adherence to guidelines of what to avoid eating, or in some cases, how to specifically cook (or not cook) accepted foods. But healthy eating for the majority of people can be simplified. Eat more produce, consider cooking at home, and make healthy food flavorful. So why aren’t we doing that? Even though studies show eating a variety of produce is a key preventative strategy for avoiding cardiovascular disease and cancer, most people find healthy eating overwhelming, (due to the systematic challenges and the sheer breadth of daily hurdles these are simply impossible to cover here). Most of the US population does not eat the recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetable servings each day. But here’s one simple thing you can do when you’re cooking: cook with steam using the Anova’s Precision® Oven to enhance the nutritional content of your food. (more…)

How to use steam in the Anova Precision® Oven

The Anova Precision® Oven is a home combi oven. The world’s best chefs have used combi ovens in their restaurant kitchens for years, but these devices have been extremely expensive and only available for commercial use…until now.

A traditional oven lets you control temperature (usually, not very well). But a combi oven gives you control of both temperature and humidity. It’s this combination that gives chefs – and now, anyone – precise, predictable, and powerful control of the way your food cooks.

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