What Can a Smart Oven Do?

A smart oven integrates with your connected smart home network (which may include other smart appliances like smart dishwashers, smart microwaves, or smart refrigerators) and provides advanced cooking technology for more even cooking. Adjust the cooking temperature from your smartphone or tablet to prevent overcooking without leaving your chair.

In addition, smart ovens and ranges may include some or all of these features:

What Can a Smart Stove Cooktop Do?

A smart stove offers a customizable cooktop to accommodate any dish, pot, or pan. While a gas cooktop offers the best precision of cooking temperature, electric cooktops are where the new technology and features are found.

Features vary depending on brand and model. Our list includes features from several smart oven range and stove manufacturers.

  • Multiple types of burners allow you to cook in new ways. This includes induction burners that use electromagnetic energy to cook food and require either stainless steel or cast-iron cookware to work and multiple element burners that allow you to select the correct size burner element for the size of the cookware, eliminating heat loss and ensuring faster cooking.Power burners meet intense heat cooking needs such as boiling water or searing foods.Simmer burners keep foods warm while other items finish cooking and use less energy.Use a bridge element to connect two or more burners to create one large cooking surface for wide cookware or griddles.Smooth ceramic glass cooktops offer easy clean-up and include indicator lights to show which areas are still hot.

What Can a Smart Oven/Stove Plug Do?

If you can’t afford a new smart kitchen range but are interested in adding a bit of smart to your existing range, you can purchase a special smart plug for your stove. Your oven range plugs into the smart plug first and then the smart plug is connected to the wall outlet for your kitchen range. Let’s take a quick look at how this special plug adds smart technology features to your existing oven range.

Common Concerns About Smart Oven Ranges

A smart oven range is a serious investment with prices ranging from around $3,000 to over $10,000 for very high-end models. Let’s review some common concerns buyers have when making an investment in a smart range.

Are Smart Oven Ranges Complicated to Use?

With all of the different cooking technologies included in smart ranges, this is an understandable concern. While smart oven ranges allow you to customize some of these different cooking options, there are also simple to use oven cycles such as bake, broil, and warm that take the guesswork and the stress out of understanding the different options.

How Is a Smart Oven Range Different From a Smart Wall Oven or Smart Drop-In Cooktop?

A smart oven range includes the oven (or ovens if more than one oven compartment) and the cooktop in one appliance. Using a separate smart wall oven and smart cooktop are just the same appliances split into two separate units instead of being combined into one.

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