Cooking Dinner From the Road

Roland Piquepaille writes "After 12 years of development and with the help of NASA's Embedded Web Technology software, the TMIO company is delivering its first smart ovens. You can monitor these refrigerator-ovens from any Internet connection. For example, you can adjust and control the oven settings from your cell phone and be sure that dinner is ready when you get home. But cooking from your office or your car won't come cheap: these ovens carry a price tag of $8,699. Right now, they're only available in North America, but I bet there soon will be distributors in other parts of the world. Read more for additional details about these smart ovens."

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[digitalsushi]

I can toss a tv dinner in a toaster oven on an X10 plug, ssh into my box and turn it on with the firecracker module, and save... whatever it costs minus 15 bucks.

Re:I already have one

[Bad D.N.A.]

Your right. I love my Crock. But the Crock is designed for cooking meals in a liquid. If you need to cook something dry then the Crock is not the best tool. For example if I needed to cook a prime rib... now i could do it in a crock, but it would have a very different flavor than if I cooked it dry. Professional kitchens always (as far as I know) cook the prime rib in an "oven", at low temperatures, with some humidity. The result is, as we all know, awsome. The Crock does not deliver the same flavor.

And now from the been there, done that department-

[Anonymous Coward]

Whirlpool announced the Polara oven that does the same thing and is controlled via the internet about 2.5 years ago (with a list price of just under $1400). Jesh, talk about "leading edge" technology...

I haven't noticed anyone pointing this out:

[Vengeance]

I'm no professional chef, but I really like to cook. In fact I've been cooking more than ever since I remodelled my kitchen at the end of '05. Naturally, while deciding what to do for the kitchen, my wife and I watched a number of TV shows on the subject.

We saw ovens much like this, and I always have several problems with the concept. First and foremost: Most oven cooking calls for a preheated oven, and foods generally turn out best if they are given a chance to warm up to room temperature before putting them in to cook. So frankly, this would be 10 thousand dollars spent on an item of limited utility. I don't mind having the remote control, because that would allow me to preheat the thing before I get home from work. But I sure don't want my bread dough sitting in the oven as it does so!

Besides, I got a 36" commercial-style range, with two 22K BTU burners, one 18K BTU burner, one 9K BTU simmer-burner, a charbroiler, an oven that will hold full size commercial bun pans, and a 30K BTU ceramic broiler all for roughly half the price of this device. I guess I'll bite the bullet and turn the knob when I want it hot.