Alexa, make my kitchen more complicated
Let’s just take a moment to unpack that. Say you’re not the greatest home chef, so you buy a frozen tray of saag paneer at Whole Foods for dinner. Right now, your dinner probably consists of three steps:Press a button to set your oven or microwave to that temperature.It seems pretty easy! But lo, Amazon insists it could be easier, by following a new, “smart” set of steps:Scan your food, making sure it’s one of the products that can pair with your Smart Oven.
If it’s not one of the products that can pair with your Smart Oven, preheat your oven the way you would have before.when to stir the food during cooking and let you know when it’s finished,” this is far from a “set it and forget it” deal. It sounds, weirdly, more complicated the current way of just...cooking, or at least equally complicated but now with unfamiliar steps. Even if you’re a garbage cook, setting an oven temperature is probably not where you are going wrong.
The Amazon Smart Oven will also work as an air fryer, food warmer, and convection oven, so it’s not entirely without new appeal. But certain elements of it, like so much in the tech world, are solving problems that maybe don’t exist, and creating new problems in its wake.
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