Joule from ChefSteps.
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Cooking startup financed by Valve boss Gabe Newell will make you ravenous before Thanksgiving

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gabe Newell is the commander-in-chief of Valve, the Bellevue, Wash.-based maker of Half-Life games, the Steam digital distribution network, and the just-launched Steam Machine alternative gaming computer technology. He’s also a fan of sous vide, a temperature-controlled water cooking method.

A Seattle startup, ChefSteps, has announced a piece of hardware, Joule, that functions as an “immersion circulator,” making it easier to create sous vide meals. Cooking and eating awesome food may be on your mind ahead of Thanksgiving. But the Joule won’t begin shipping until early next year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.