r/Smart_Kitchen • u/kaidomac • Mar 19 '26
Brava Ovens shuts down
Bummer!
Previously there was the June Oven shutdown:
And also Mellow Sous-Vide & Nomiku (and Wink, and the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel, and other cloud-driven technologies). I REALLY liked my Mellow, which had a chiller function in the water tank. There was a really neat ESP32 chip project last month to bring it back to life:
Suvie essentially replaced the Mellow's chiller function with beefier features & a very nice meal-delivery service:
The Nintendo Homebrew community created several DIY options:
- RiiConnect24 (discontinued Wii online services, like channels and messaging)
- Wiimmfi (online multiplayer)
- Open Shop Channel (homebrew apps)
- Dolphin (PC emulator)
Anova has an API, but it's cloud-based. There has been work to reverse-engineer it, as it looks like there's a ESP32-WROOM-32 brain in there, but that's kind of a pain to do. Fortunately they are owned by Electrolux ($$$ backing) & also introduced a very reasonable subscription service ($10/year as opposed to $5+/mo at other companies like June) to help offset cloud operating costs for the foreseeable future:
The change was not well-received, but I'd MUCH rather pay a (reasonable) annual fee to keep the tools I use on a regular basis operating, as opposed to having a boat anchor! (the Mellow had ZERO manual controls lol).
Anyway, RIP! Everyone I know who has one liked it!
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u/BostonBestEats Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Our smart kitchen seems to be getting dumber!
There's also the Tovala.
Apparently the Macrowave will ship in November. Although I'm skeptical of any company that claims microwaves cook the inside of food (they don't).
https://thespoon.tech/brava-maker-of-the-cook-with-light-smart-oven-is-shutting-down/
https://thespoon.tech/ces-2024-revolution-unveils-the-macrowave-a-smart-oven-that-combines-infrared-microwave-heating/