Clifton FL28D 28 Litre Unstirred Digital Sous Vide Bath

The Clifton FL28D is a 28-litre unstirred digital water bath built for sous vide cooking in professional kitchen environments. Rather than using a circulation pump, it relies on natural convection to distribute heat through the water column. This makes it a practical choice where quiet operation matters or where the product being cooked benefits from a calm, undisturbed environment inside the pouch.

In day-to-day kitchen use, a bath of this capacity sits comfortably within the workflow of small-to-medium operations — restaurants, hotel kitchens, and prep kitchens where sous vide forms part of a structured batch prep cycle rather than continuous high-volume output. The digital controls allow operators to set and hold a precise temperature consistently across a full prep session, which is fundamental to repeatable sous vide results.

From an operational standpoint, the key practical advantages include:

• Precise digital temperature control for consistent, repeatable batch results
• 28-litre capacity well suited to structured prep-ahead workflows
• Unstirred design keeps operation quiet and mechanically simple
• Self-contained bench-mounted unit requiring no additional circulation equipment
• Clifton is a well-regarded UK manufacturer with a proven background in food-grade and laboratory water baths

It is worth noting that unstirred baths can show marginally less temperature uniformity across the full volume compared to a circulated alternative — particularly under heavier loads. For the vast majority of sous vide applications this presents no practical difficulty, but it is a characteristic worth understanding before committing to the format.

Installation is straightforward: the unit is electrically powered and bench-mounted, with no specialist services required beyond a suitable power supply. This makes it easy to position within an existing prep area without significant disruption.

This bath is well suited to kitchens introducing sous vide or running it as part of a regular prep programme at modest volumes. Sites with higher throughput demands or a need for tighter temperature uniformity across large batch loads may find a circulated bath or a larger-capacity model more appropriate.

If you are weighing up whether an unstirred bath fits your kitchen's output and workflow, the team is glad to help you think it through.