A $1,495 toaster oven takes the guesswork out of cooking
It may look like the toaster oven you fed yourself with that time you were on the lamb and hiding in a seedy motel, but this thing could be the future of cooking. Meet June, which its creators call “the computer that cooks.” Essentially, it’s a… toaster oven, but one that comes packing a NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip, a five-inch touchscreen and a “full HD” camera that’s embedded in the ceiling. This smart oven is designed to take all of the stress out of cooking, as well as make your baking exploits social media friendly.
The secret to June’s on-paper success is in its heating elements, which are made of carbon fiber and apparently can reach maximum power in just five seconds. That enables the device to reach temperatures of 350 degrees Fahrenheit in just over four minutes, far faster than that lumbering unit in your kitchen. The speed of the heating also means that the built-in system can make minute adjustments to the temperature to ensure your food is perfectly cooked.
For instance, if you wanted to roast a chicken, the hardware has a built-in scale, so it’ll be able to do all of the fiddly pounds-to-minutes calculations for you. Then, you can shove a temperature probe into the middle of your meat (which connects to the inside of June) to enable the system to variate the heat where necessary. Finally, the camera in the ceiling can, not only try to guess what food you’re cooking by sight, but also let you watch your meal being cooked without having to open the front door. All you have to do is watch the action unfold on your smartphone, and yes, you can share the pictures of your cakes partway through baking to your Instagram chums.
So, you’re sold on one, right? Before you open your mouth to utter the immortal “shut up and take my money,” you should be warned that this costs a pretty penny. If you pre-order before July 10th and stump up a $95 deposit, then you’ll be able to grab this device for $1,495. Yes, that’s the price of a decent stove at Home Depot, but if you don’t pre-order before then, the markup rockets to $2,995. That said, if this technology is proven to work and the second-generation version comes in a stove format, we’d certainly think about making the splash. Still, that probably works out to a cheaper dollar-per-meal rate than something like the Rotimatic, right?
Filed under: Misc
Via: Gizmodo
Source: June
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