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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."
As a sufferer of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is worth almost ten grand to not have to spend my entire day worrying if I did, indeed, leave the oven on.
Now if they could only port this technology for my coffee maker.
Sig Sig Sputnik
Hmm. All has been completed. With this, I no longer need my wife.
My ZooLoo
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.
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OH crap, my cell phone is dead. OH crap, my house burnt down.
When was the last time you used your oven?
Are you willing to prepare a dish in the morning and put it in the oven before you leave for work?
Would you actually trust this thing not to burn down your house?
My point is this: cool idea, but hardly worthy of a front-page post.
Did anyone else see the headline and thing the link was going to teach us how to look dinner on the engine block?
Mikey
I've always been the kinda guy to fall for the girl dressed like an eskimo.
The article mentions the 'oven' has refridgeration capability - this means it can keep your uncooked food somewhat fresh while you're at work, and when you know you're going to be home soon you can instruct the device to switch into 'oven' mode.
Pretty clever, I think, although I almost never use the oven when I'm cooking dinner - it's all saucepans and frypans. How often do most people cook roasts?
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
It's called a Crock pot. Ribs, soup, chili, stew, chicken, it beats other types of cooking hands down. Set it in the morning, it is done when I get home. The food doesn't get burnt. You can get one for less than $40. What is the upside of this oven?
For some great recipies, check out Manifold Destiny for some delicious and low-tech ways (aluminum foil, meat, vegetables, and possibly some fish to grill) to prepare some great meals. The best part is that your final destination does not have to be home. If planned properly, a picnic at a rest stop and no dishes to cleanup when done will have you be the envy of your fellow passengers.
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
$8000.00 to cover the cost of the manufacturer's liability insurance.
These ovens don't seem very smart, just accessible. I would call them smart if they were able to cook food -- detecting when it's ready -- without any human intervention.
Yes! Now I can fill my arsonist tendencies by simply hacking into someone's oven and overheating it! Or perhaps I'll simply get them back for getting that raise before me by burning their turkey on Thanksgiving...beats the heck out of ordering 20 pizzas...they'll never catch me
I can't even begin to imagine how this works. But I'll try..
You're sitting on the toilet with your iBook in your lap. You open up Firefox and connect to tp1.domain.com and are prompted for a username and password. After entering the username and password, you see a field called "sheets" where you type in the number 6, and then you click the check-box labeled "auto cut". You click submit and look ever at the toilet paper and it dispenses 6 sheets and cuts them free.
Once you're done wiping, you check the screen for stats on sheets used, sheets remaining, average sheets per session, per day, per week, etc.
Yes. Totally awesome.
Once again, NASA comes up with the high cost, over-engineered solution to a simple problem...
1. Wrap food carefully, and completely, in foil.
2. Place food parcel carefully on engine block; secure with wire if necessary.
3. Drive home.
For the average commuter, your dinner is now cooked.
Heh... I thought that this was going to be story about either road kill meals or some sort of cooking in the engine compartment of a car. Too bad it wasn't, an $8000 dollar oven with a timer isn't much interest to me.
What could possibly be lazier than going to a "drive-thru" and buying a substance that doesn't even resemble food, and eating it in the car?
... and then they built the supercollider.
The better solution is to just buy food that only takes 5 minutes to cook. Seriously.
Check out my women's designer clothing store.
Is anybody else uncomfortable with the idea of buggy computers and insecure networks controlling the operations of appliances that are known to be fire hazards?
:)
I'd much rather be home to monitor the operation of my cooking, frankly. Unless I can use one of those smellometer devices with my cell phone to tell whether or not something's burning.
The other irony is if we have all these mobile devices that make it unnecessary to be in the office, why wouldn't I just stay home with my oven in the first place?
Of course the reality is that for most people, mobile devices are actually excuses not to stay home.
Man if you can afford $9000 for an oven, then why bother
Go out to a funky cafe/resteraunt, and spend that $16 on a well made pizza/pasta/stake and 3 beers.
No wonder it takes $500million to launch a shuttle.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
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.
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.