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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I just avidly read a bunch of well written answers, a blog post, and now I’m looking into buying a sous vide machine, all in the span of 10 minutes and from not even knowing what sous vide consisted in lol.

So, what’s everyone’s recommendation for a machine?

Cheers

EDIT: I bought a ANOVA Nano, it’s coming in 4 days!