Mellow - The robotic sous-chef for home cooks

Founder/designer here, if you guys have any questions

Why the decision to go smart phone controller only?

you don't need a budget: we're not charging until we ship, and our referral program nets you a $20 discount for every friend that preorders through your link, up to free! Preorder, spam, annoy a ton of people for sweet, sweet sous-vide salmon. You know you want to.

Hah, robots! Still paying attention to this thread for any late-bird questions. Hit me up at ze@fnvlabs.com if you'd rather.

This looks very cool! Congrats on launching very interesting product. I'm a cook-noob and I guess can't fully appreciate the product. But it looks like a perfect present for the NY(seeing the shipping dates). It says all it needs water and a bag. Which bag is it? Where to get those? Would love to see more videos of Mellow in real-life, like a full-length tutorials of cooking something.

Looks gorgeous... signed up!

Thank you @nikitakorotaev, we'll have some more videos up soon. The bag we mention is either your regular ziploc bag, or non-zipped freezer bag, like these: http://www.walmart.com/ip/FoodSa... You don't need the actual vacuum machine, though.

This looks incredible! I never cook but this makes me want to start!

So cool. That's an appliance I'd be proud to display on my countertop! @zemvpferreira how many prototypes did you go through before arriving at this? And any funny stories come from testing a previous model that didn't work out?

@kristoferTM too many prototypes to count (we make a load of self-contained ones to test ideas quickly), and three full product iterations before deciding to launch. Funny is relative :) My mom didn't laugh much the first time I flooded her kitchen. Or the last.