If something's worth doing it's worth doing properly or so the saying goes and, although some of our dealers were beginning to think that our claims to be launching sous vide water baths starting to sound a bit like the boy who cried wolf, here they are.

Why did they take so long? Well these are Instanta's first products outside our traditional field of hot beverage equipment and we wanted them to be perfect from the start. For this reason we have been trialing the baths with some top chefs throughout 2008 and 2009 and tweaking them until all their exacting standards were met.

We now believe that we have the best sous vide water baths available with all the features needed for perfect sous vide cooking. Our new four page leaflet is available now.

Prices are £1000 for the SV25 model and £1100 for the SV38. The optional dividers for separating portions are £140 for a set of four.

• 38 litre and 25 litre models.
• Digital display includes both “Set” and “Actual” temperature control to within 0.1˚C. Temperature range from room temperature to 99.9˚C.
• Low water level warning including boil-dry protection.
• Unique agitation pumps the water regularly around the bath to eliminate hot and cold spots.
• Five timers including hours, minutes and seconds. As soon as these individual buttons are pressed the time will count upwards allowing the chef to see at a glance exactly how long a particular portion has been in the bath. Pressing the button again returns the time to zero.
• Heavy duty hinged safety glass lid
• Removable stainless steel rack system for suspending pouches as standard
• Stainless steel partitions to divide tanks available as an optional extra
• Easy draining for cleaning
• Powerful 3kW element
• Brushed stainless steel fi nish and stainless steel tanks
• Insulated tanks for energy effi ciency
• Low voltage switching
• Scientifi c standard temperature sensor
• Extra deep tanks to chefs’ specifications