Mellow
Engineering the second version of a sous-vide appliance
- FDA
- food-safety approval targeted
- v2
- cooling system redesigned
- Validated
- in practice, ahead of next version
Mellow builds a countertop sous-vide appliance. For its second version, they needed to clear FDA approval — which meant the cooling system had to do more than the first version's did, to keep food safely chilled.
We took on the engineering challenge end to end: dimensioning a cooling system that met the food-safety requirement, validating it in practice, and defining the requirements for the next version.
Project stages
- 01
Challenge
Mellow's first version didn't cool food fast or consistently enough to clear FDA approval for food safety — a hard requirement for the second version.
- 02
Engineering the cooling system
We dimensioned a cooling system sized for the food-safety requirement, then validated it in practice rather than on paper alone.
- 03
Requirements for the next version
Beyond solving the immediate cooling problem, we defined the engineering requirements the next version would need to build on.
In detail
