Eli5: What’s so special about sous vide cooking that can’t be done via other cooking methods?

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Eli5: What’s so special about sous vide cooking that can’t be done via other cooking methods?

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Answer 1

It’s really precise.

The machines have a temperature tolerance of +/- 0.5 c.
They include pumps that keep a large volume of water at a very specific temperature for hours.

If you try to do it by hand you get much bigger temperature swings.