You’ve always wanted to use your smartphone in your kitchen, right? Perhaps not but this latest trending Kickstarter project, the Anova Precision Cooker seems interesting all the same.

This product brings the kind of sous vide precision temperature cooking you only usually find in the world’s best restaurants into your home, and let you control what you’re doing with your smartphone (so you don’t need to keep an eye on the pan).

Take note these kinds of domestic sous vide solutions only became affordable across the last 12-months, so this product’s status as a connected device could be the secret sauce to giving Anova’s system the kind of USP to heat up its market segment. Backers have donated $1,673,050 to the project so far.

Update: Project successfully funded 18 June 2014