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I'm wondering why you'd have a smart oven in the first place. Seems like all risk and no reward.
by hot_gril 3y ago
I'm wondering why you'd have a smart oven in the first place. Seems like all risk and no reward.
- MrDrMcCoy 3y agoProbably for some feature or astetic that's unrelated to the smart features, but is only available on the smart oven.
- galangalalgol 3y agoThis os definitely most of it. Also, someone figured out they could do something with the parameters of the convection oven and get close to an air frier. Got the mode a year later. Lastly, when the meat thermometer hits temp, I get a notification. That is actually useful.
- stevehawk 3y agoThe ability to pre-heat my oven without standing in front of it. That's really the big win. But also to be able to tell if spouse or children left it on.
- hot_gril 3y agoBut I can walk to my oven and turn it on, which wasn't a real problem even when I lived in a huge house. What am I missing?
- spiderice 3y agoWe really can’t force you to see the obvious if you’re set on not understanding something.
- hot_gril 3y agoThat's alright, I'm good. Smart ovens are pretty rare, so it seems like a lot of people don't get this.
- naasking 3y ago> But I can walk to my oven and turn it on, which wasn't a real problem even when I lived in a huge house. Rushing to get out the door, "Honey, did we turn off the stove?" Presumably you can then check with your phone.
- MobiusHorizons 3y agoPeople with internet controlled ovens turn them on before arriving home to shorten the time it takes to get dinner on the table.
- AndrewDucker 3y agoIn my case, being able to start it heating when I'm ten minutes away from home, so that I can get the kids fed ten minutes sooner.
- hot_gril 3y agoOk, that makes sense.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoA timer to turn on an oven has been a thing for 25 years or more, probably there were clockwork ones before that. So it is down to very fine control on timing, or not turning the oven on, say, if you're in a traffic jam. I'd expect the network connection to go down and the oven not to turn on at least as often as 10 minute makes an operable difference.
- hot_gril 3y agoMaybe you don't decide at the start of your day, rather it comes up later that the kids want something baked for dinner that is already prepared and just needs to go into the oven, and you also get home from work at like 7pm. Idk how niche that is, but if that's someone's situation, the remote control makes sense.
- AndrewDucker 3y agoYup. Or the buses and the queues at childcare pickup and the speed of walking home with a 3 and 5 year old means that arrival times at home vary dramatically.
- fragmede 3y agoLucky guy, it sounds like you've never experienced overwhelming anxiety over having possibly left the oven on while out of the house.
- hot_gril 3y agoThat'd be a legit feature, but far less involved than a full-on smart oven. At most, it'd have a way to turn off the oven remotely (but not turn it on). Anyway, last time I had this anxiety, I checked my Ring camera in the kitchen that's posted there for reasons like this. Works for the stove and faucet too.
- dandy23 3y agoA simple timer that switches off after a couple of hours would do. The timer could reset every time the oven door is opened. This should solve most issues. Long cooking could have a bypass button or somethong (if the door open reset is not enough).
- zidad 3y agoI just remembered many old analog electrical ovens had this already , the only way to turn on the oven is by setting a timer (and when you needed it on for many hours you had to set another timer for yourself to remember to extend the oven timer ).
- Const-me 3y ago