# Delayed Start Option **URL:** \ **Category:** Anova Support\ **Tags:** app\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/delayed-start-option/751 "2016-04-12T17:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![fischersd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/fischersd/32/5594_2.png) [@fischersd](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/fischersd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/delayed-start-option/751/10 "2017-01-10T20:19:59Z")
If you have an insulated vessel, it’ll still hold its temperature quite well. On the power outage front - I always have my PC on a UPS if I’m doing a cook more than an hour or so (or if I’m not going to be home). Default behaviour is that it does NOT resume the cook if power is lost (this is by design - so people don’t get sick with their food unknowingly being in the danger zone for several hours. More info on the UPS topic here: > [@Protecting your cook with a UPS](http://community.anovaculinary.com/t/protecting-your-cook-with-a-ups/2760): > > We had this topic come up a few times previously. In case people are unaware, in order to protect you from potentially unsafe food, the PC does not restart your cook after a power outage. Having the alternative could be very dangerous (and just offering a notification that power was lost without a duration wouldn’t help you much to mitigate risk). The best workaround for this (and, actually, protect your cooks against short duration power outages) would be to get a UPS (interruptible power su… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/delayed-start-option/751)._