Julabo New Fusion Chef Immersion Circulator for Sous Vide (Part 1 – The Pearl)

by jean-francois on Sep.12, 2010, under Equipments & Accessories

Julabo is known as the European leader in manufacturing Constant Temperature Circulators used for research, science and industry with a reputation since 1967. Some weeks ago Julabo launched the Fusion Chef Immersion Circulator series devoted to sous vide.

I received some days ago the Pearl an Diamond immersion circulators and could not stand giving you my first impressions of these fabulous pieces of sous vide equipement. Today I’ll show you the Pearl and will post tomorrow about the Diamond. I’ll make a full review of these equipements during the next days and will share my conclusions with you.

The Pearl is a very simple and nice finish immersion circulator. The front display is composed of one screen and 4 buttons

Julabo’s immersion circulator is totally composed of stainless steal (casing and protection cage) which gives an excellent “feeling” about the machine.

The Pearl is sold with a protection grid which is a good point as protection grids are usually sold separatly at EUR 100 . The protection cage is fixed with 4 screws on the down part of the casing which is, in my opinion, not really practical if you want to proceed to a fast cleaning of the immersion circulator after each use.

Pearl’s price list is EUR 899 (excl. VAT?).

Main specifications :

Temp. range: 20°C to 95°C
Temp. stability: ± 0,03°C
Power: 2,000W
Circulation pump: 14 l/min
Low-level water alarm
Safety protection grid

:Fusion Chef, immersion circulator, Julabo, Pearl, Review, Sous vide equipment, Thermal circulator

4 Comments for this entry

Hayley Bellenie
September 19th, 2010 on 2:40 PM
I will be so interested to hear your findings. I need to purchase an immersion circulator and I’m trying to find the best make. I currently use a Sirman but would really like more detail about other machines. Also any information you have on vacuum chamber machines would be much appreciated.

Thanks Hayley
Jean-François
September 19th, 2010 on 4:14 PM
Hayley,

I unfortunatly don’t have much time at the moment but I recommend waiting until early October. I’ll post THE review of sous vide equipments available on the market including main immersion circulators.

JF
Jean-François
September 19th, 2010 on 8:13 PM
Hayley,

I made a review of the MiniVac of Vacstar but this is a small vacuum chamber machine http://www.sousvidecooking.org/vacuum-chamber-sealer-test-of-the-minivac-of-vacstar/

Casqu8 is about to make a review of bigger vacuum chamber machines but which are of a higher price http://www.fiftyfourdegrees.com/lang/en-us/archives/1468

JF
Hayley Bellenie
September 22nd, 2010 on 3:09 PM
Thank you. I will eagerly wait your findings!