Great Buys on Beef Cookers, Booze, and Bacon

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Here in America, we celebrate freedom—most things, really—with food and drink. “Hey, remember when our entire country revolted and freed itself from the tyranny of foreign rule?” “Heck yeah! Let’s throw some dogs on the barbecue! And pass the beer!”

You probably have your BBQ and beverages all set for tomorrow’s 4th of July festivities. But there will be plenty of other excuses to eat and drink after that. So—perhaps because I have food and drink on the brain today—I’ve rounded up some sweet, savory, and spiked deals on food, booze, and one cool high-tech cooking gadget.

Most of these deals are exclusive to the Deal Seeker. So be glad you stopped by. And be sure to come back. I do this every Friday.

Anova Precision Cooker

If you have ever eaten a scrumptious piece of meat at a high-end restaurant, cooked to butter-melting perfection with just the right amount of sear on the outside, I’ll wager the chef was using the sous vide method to prepare it. This high-tech cooking method is popular with pros because it makes it super easy to cook meat to a precise internal temperature. For home cooks, sous vide technology can also make it easy to time things so dinner is ready when you get home.

There are a few consumer-level sous vide machines out there, but the Anova Precision Cooker has a couple of specific advantages. For one thing, it lets you use your own pans, so you don’t have to give up valuable counter space. Also, it doesn’t require a vacuum sealer. Perhaps best of all, it connects to a smartphone app to take the guesswork out of the process: Just tap the meat you are cooking to set the time right from your iPhone. Slick. It sells for $179 at the Anova Culinary site but I got you 20 percent off through Sunday. Just enter the code YAHOO20 at checkout. Shipping is free.

Narwhal Bacon Box

Everything is better with bacon, right? (Mmmmm…bacon….) But what about bacon that shows up at your door? Better, right? And the self-delivering box of bacon you can get from Narwhal Bacon Box is much more than just a box of bacon. It’s a surprise collection of goodies—sometimes but not always including bacon—developed by some enterprising Redditors. In other words, it’s geeky bacon, which is even better still.

Sign up for a subscription and you’ll get an amusing, useful, and possibly edible collection of Internet nerdiness on whatever schedule you choose (monthly, quarterly, biannually, annually). If something in a box doesn’t grease your skillet, just go online and skip that one. I got you an exclusive, savory deal: To get one month for just $29.95 (it’s normally $31.95), use the code dealseeker1. To get three months for $79.95 (normally $92.85), use dealseeker3.

Thirstie

It’s Friday. So I’m fairly certain there is a cocktail in my near future. The question is, how much of my afternoon can I waste planning that cocktail? Judging from how much time I just spent perusing the articles, recipes, and images of beautiful people imbibing tasty spirits at the Thirstie’s newly launched The Craft content site, most of it.

Fortunately, Thirstie is also a service that delivers beer, wine, and spirits right to my door. So I can work late and still get to that cocktail on schedule. And so can you, if you live in one of the (ever-expanding) markets Thirstie serves and download the iPhone or Android app. I got you clever Deal Seekers $10 off. Use the code THEDEAL. It expires July 31. Shlante!

NextGlass

Wine. Love to sip it. Hate to stand in the store trying to find a palatable bottle that won’t drown my weekend budget. NextGlass is an app that uses science to match beer and wines I have enjoyed to others I’ll probably enjoy based on a chemical analysis of the beverage. Science? Wine? Now you’re talking my language.

But NextGlass also has deals built right into the app. Through partnerships with Total Wine retail stores, Wine.com, and Drizly (an online liquor store that delivers), you just need to have to have the NextGlass app on your phone (and register). You’ll then be alerted to exclusive deals when you step into a Total Wine ($1 off a six-pack, 15% off six bottles of wine), are in one of Drizly’s delivery areas (10% off delivery), or want to buy something from Wine.com (10% off a bottle of wine). And these aren’t just any old deals: They are price cuts on the beers and wines the app thinks you’ll like.