Chefman Sous Vide User Reviews

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BURNS THRU BATTERY & PHONE IS SUPER HOT!!!!

This is useless. It won’t connect after I did a software update. Now it burns through my iPhone 14 battery and gets the phone as HOT as if I left it in the SUN!!
SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG!!

Burns battery for no reason

This all has a serious problem. Have it open on your iPhone and it will deplete the battery very quickly. So fast in fact, that the phone gets hot. Can’t believe they haven’t fixed it. Looks like they don’t support the all at all.

No Wi-Fi

My son got this for a Christmas present. It works well but the Wi-Fi never connects and the Bluetooth is short lived. Have you stopped supporting this product?

What a battery hog!

This app took my phone down to 40% from fully charged in just a few hours. I've never seen my battery drop that fast.

Never connects

Either the app or the product is completely worthless in terms of the connectivity to Bluetooth or wifi. It worked the first time or two I used it (although it took forever to connect) but hasn’t worked in over a year. Find another product.

Needs important updates

You cannot select the WiFi network and does not stay connected to Bluetooth. Will not connect to WiFi even if you manually enter information.

Part of the reason for purchase was to be able to start the machine from remote locations. This definitely stifles the function abilities. And it seems like it has well over a year since last update.
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WiFi never connects

It cooks great, connects through Bluetooth, connected once through WiFi and then never again! The app obviously needs an update, it should simply share WiFi info from your phone, but I guess that would be too easy

It burns my IPhone

I don’t now why, but when I use that app, my IPhone 11pro becomes too hot. My sous vide connected by Bluetooth

WiFi Max Password?

Why do you have 20 character limit on WiFi passwords in the app? WPA2-PSK supports passwords up to 63 characters? 20 characters seems like a totally arbitrary limit that doesn’t even fit the technology’s spec.

Overall fine app, but seems like y’all need to workout a lot of issues with WiFi based on these reviews. Bluetooth works fine, but it’s tedious to connect every time.
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App ok... but timer doesn’t work on WIFI

I wrote another review and since it’s not here anymore for some reason, I’m writing another. Yes, the app controls the unit. But for some reason it has never worked right if the unit is connected WIFI. The timer doesn’t count down at all in the app if the unit is connected WIFI. It does on the unit itself and it will in the app of connected Bluetooth, but not WIFI. Something so simple as a timer should easily be syncable over WIFI. It defeats the purpose of connecting WIFI if you lose any functionality. I hope they finally fix it soon.
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Did it break??

Can’t get any recipes or calculator to load anymore??

Guess I get to resort to DuckDuckGo.

Brand new to me

Loving this so far but would love it even more if there was an active live status bar similar to navigation apps that could always be displayed at the top of the home screen. Tap on it to go directly back to the controller. Know what I’m trying to describe?

Won’t connect to WiFi

Running latest IOS. Got latest update for APP. Cannot get Chefman to connect to WiFi at all. Tried all the tips in the app. I believe the fact that you can’t actually choose a network and have to type it in tells me there is a software issue in the units firmware. So to the app developers I’d ask the software guys to make sure the WiFi connectivity program is actually set up correctly.
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Have to reset too often

Wont connect properly

Useful app but technical issues

Used the app but initially had connectivity issues. Also one of the recipes says 45 min but cooking time is three hours! The gadget itself is amazing.

Version2 not as good as 1.4

Bring back the manual control screen of previous versions like 1.4

Update horrible

I can not control my device with my phone any more. Thinking of getting a new device if they don’t fix this terrible “update” 😢

Loved the update

Thank you chefman for the improvement on the app, loved the new guided cooking and little bar at the bottom, it’s much more better the previous version!

Crashing on calculator section

It keeps crashing!!

Leider nur für USA Tauglich

Sieht optisch gut aus, aber nur inch Maßeinheiten und für Rindfleisch gibt es nur Steak, Burger und Brisket! Das ist nicht wirklich nahe am Garverfahren.