![]() After I set out my mise en place, I proceeded to the caramel-making step, read “combine the sugar and water in a saucepan,” and dumped it all in. The recipe calls for 330 grams of white sugar “divided,” recipe-speak to signal that those 330 grams will be split between the caramel and the custard. On the other hand, I'm a sucker for caramel and custard, so when I hit a snag making the Fantastic Flan recipe in the Joule oven app, it was not a flan-tastic experience. (Full disclosure: I worked as a contract writer and recipe tester for ChefSteps for four months, starting in late 2015.) Most air-fryer recipes don’t have you dirty a pan to sear your steak, but the results won’t be nearly as good. That steak recipe I tackled when I began testing the Joule oven is vintage ChefSteps-a smart twist on technique that might add a bit of complication, but one that’s aided by helpful videos and delivers a worthy payoff. ![]() ChefSteps’ sous vide machine, also slightly confusingly called a Joule, has an app that’s considered a “smart kitchen” gold standard. Cooking with an app tends to be a dismal proposition, but ChefSteps is historically quite good at these connected cooking experiences so I liked my chances here. The company was one of the pioneers of “connected cooking,” a segment of the kitchen-tech market that uses mobile apps to walk you through the prep and cooking stages of a recipe. The Joule Air Fryer taps heavily on Breville’s 2019 acquisition of ChefSteps. Either way, “air frying” is a market-savvy way to describe convection cooking, or using a fan in an oven to cook food with a jet stream of hot air. ![]() ![]() The air fryer in question is the toaster-oven style, as opposed to the classic style which always reminds me a five-gallon bucket with a drawer at the bottom where the food is cooked. It was an expensive, tender cut, but the technique recipe was excellent, producing an evenly rosy interior and a dark, crisp exterior. The recipe, however, came from a trusted source, so I seared a New York strip in a skillet then popped it in Breville’s new Joule Oven Air Fryer Pro, which blasted the steak with hot air then automatically adjusted its heat way down to let the strip of meat coast to a glorious finish. I’m not a big fan of air fryers, and as someone who makes beef a rare treat, you can imagine my reluctance to air-fry a steak.
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