 go ahead and do my full review on the Gourmia here, the GMC680. If you did watch the box opening of this, you will know that it's a standalone unit. It's a multi cooker that has a sous vide option. That's why Gourmia sent it to me. They wanted me to kind of check it out. Since I had two other Gourmia units and I did a review on one of them so far, they went ahead and sent me this to try out and do a review. And I gotta say, I'm not normally a multi cooker liker because like most things that have multiple uses, they don't really do one thing really well. They just kind of get by on the stuff that they do. This is kind of similar. I do like it for a second unit for sous vide, as far as cooking side items, stuff like that. I did use it to make top round in once and it worked pretty well. One of the things that the negatives on it is that it is kind of limited in the size and just want to take this out, kind of show you. This pan here is all you have as far as size wise because this heats from the bottom. It's got a plate at the bottom of this in here. So this does have to sit in here. It doesn't circulate so the heat comes off from the bottom. So you just have very limited what you can put in here. It works great if you are single or just a couple and you're only cooking a couple steaks or smaller roast. I used it pretty well for some side items like I did mashed potatoes in here, I did corn. I used it to cook rice and then to cook a couple other things in the multi cooker functions and it worked pretty well for that. I can't say that it didn't work good. It worked pretty good. When I did use it to cook the top round steaks, I did notice that the temperature was off by about a degree or so, maybe a little degree and a half. I think a lot of that has to do with not having circulation. So the water that's closer to the meat is a little cooler because the water is not circulating and moving around and the heat's all coming up from the bottom. But one thing I did like with this rack that's in here, when you sit this your meat in there you have to sit it on this rack as it keeps it off the bottom since the heat pretty much all comes from the bottom. You don't want your meat sitting on the bottom of this pan absorbing all the heat directly. So you do need to put this rack in there. One thing I like about this rack at least it does flip over both ways. The handles on this side actually keep it up if you want to steam something. So this can actually steam vegetables, any kind of fish, stuff like that. If you turn this rack up like this it gets off the off the water a lot more so you can have that steaming up. So like I said I cooked rice in this. It cooks really well. It's got a single function for rice. You can't adjust the temperature or anything. You just hit rice and it actually just takes the water up to boiling and cooks it till it's done and then you shut it off and take the rice out. So that worked real well. I did use it two or three times for the sous vide. It worked good on the top rounds that I did. I don't want to say it worked bad but I would not use this as my go-to everyday sous vide machine unless I was a somebody who lived in an apartment or had limited space and I didn't want to have multiple kitchen appliances around. I think that's what this is good for. It's good for like I said is a second unit. If you are you have another sous vide circulator or some other source and you just need something to do sides in or some other other meats occasionally. If you're going to use this would replace a crock pot real well or any other kind of multi cooker. It's not a pressure cooker so it's not wouldn't replace an instant pot but any kind of crock pot it would replace because it has you know 11 functions on here. It's got you know pretty much anything a crock pot can do plus. I mean this can actually you can roast a chicken in this. You can bake in it. You can saute. I guess you can make rice. It's got the slow cooker function like a crock pot. Steam. You can steam fish and then the sous vide function. So it does have a yogurt. You can make yogurt in this thing. I didn't do that. I'm not big into making yogurt so I might try that someday but it's a very good unit if you have limited space. You're in an apartment. Just you know one or two of you that you're cooking for. It's a second unit for sides and stuff like that. As long as you don't you know buy this thing and you're going to stick a full rack of ribs or brisket in it. It's it's very limited in the size so but for somebody who would rather have a multi cooker than a crock pot it works great. Can't beat it. Like I said highly suggested if you are looking for a second unit just because of the multi functions on it. But I'm impressed with it. I mean it's got you know a nice glass heavy duty lid. It's got a steam little steam release hole on the top. This pan. Only thing I don't like about the pan is not insulated like a crock pot is. So if you are taking this let's say to a potluck dinner or friend's house or for a party or something you might lose heat a little bit faster but the inside of this seems pretty insulated. So it might hold the heat just from inside of this unit. But the pan itself is just very thin but it is you know it's a nonstick pan. I when I did the top round steaks I actually seared them in this pan because I didn't have time to fire up my grill and one of the functions of this is it says you could sear in this pan. So I did that and it worked pretty good. I mean I got up to like 425 as the max heat on this so it wasn't that 600 or 700 degree hot sear but it worked out pretty good. But it's it's light it's not very heavy even though like I said it's probably lighter than my crock pot because it's not made out of the ceramic that a crock pot is. It does have a lot more functions than a crock pot instead of just you know low high warm it's got you know 11 different functions on this. So it works pretty good for what it is. One of the things I did notice is that you have to pay attention when you're setting it up for sous vide make sure that because when the when the water comes up to temperature it only beeps it'll get only beep like three times it'll beep beep beep beep and then it won't beep again. It'll just sit there and flash until you press the start stop button again to get the timer going. So you got to pay attention if you're walking away from it in your another room and you don't hear that beep beep beep go off it won't keep doing it. Unlike some of the sous vide circulators they'll continue to beep until you actually go push the button to start the timer. So this doesn't do that it only does the three beeps to tell you that it's up the temp and if you don't go and hit the button again the timer won't go so it'll just sit there. It'll be hot but it won't the timer won't start running down so that's the only drawback I can see. It's pretty easy to use. I mean it's pretty much you hit the menu button until it gets to the to the function that you want. You hit the timer and temp and you hit start stop and once the you know with sous vide once it hits the water temperature it'll beep the three times and you hit the start stop again and then it'll start the countdown. So I highly recommend it for I guess at a backup unit for people who want to replace their crock pot with something that does a little bit more. People that may live in an apartment you know or singles or couples that don't have a lot of room in their kitchen and want to kind of combine some of their appliances into one. I do like the racks. It does have the stakeholder racks so you can put your you know steaks in here when you're cooking sous vide. This rack here is a multi-rack. It works really well. So I would say for the money I think this sells for like 80-90 bucks. It's a pretty good unit. I mean it costs about what a sous vide circulator costs right now anyway. So and it does a lot more. So I like it. Go ahead and check it out. Check them out on Amazon. I have a link at the bottom with a link to this. But I highly recommend it if you put something that you're looking for. Like I said even if you just use it as a backup and replace your crock pot for it. I highly recommend it. Thanks guys. Thanks for joining me. Make sure you follow us on Facebook. Follow us on Instagram. 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