Anova Oven

This is just the best there is

After having used a wolf steam oven, we bought two of these. While the ovens themselves are good, the app is awful. Most importantly, it regularly loses its connection to the oven. This sometimes requires a hard reset - reaching behind the oven to unplug it. Secondly, it needs some basic "recipes" - ways to do simple things, like "steam broccoli". Everything is a complex recipe (like "spicy steam roasted broccoli"). Lastly, you can only connect to one oven. So my wife and I each need to control one. Very inconvenient. Simple fixes would make this a fantastic app and product.

We installed the Anova steam oven in our summer place where the microwave used to sit. Microwave sits beneath, costing me counter spec in a very small galley kitchen. Totally worth it. Easy installation, no product defects. Learning curve? yes but what would u expect ? But many recipes are programmed so no problem. Lots of great videos and recipes that work beautifully. We love it. Btw: the grilled cheese recipe is omg good.

Child Lock, a needed feature. Easy reconnect to the oven, it takes many attempts if something is wrong with the wi fi network, and error messages don’t tell what is wrong. On the hardware side, spare part availability.

Probe rarely works. Water tank is a joke. Interface and app malfunction constantly. Get a Joule instead

Periodically the oven loses connection to the app. Most times unplugging it and plugging it back in helps it find the connection (WiFi I assume). When that doesn’t work, I have to remove the oven from the app and re-connect from scratch. Now the app will not remove the oven. I resorted to this because sending feedback requires sending an email through the Apple email app.

…you have to build it so that it actually works consistently. I love the oven, and I use it several times a week. But a majority of the time, I have to work around the app—unplug/replug oven to get it to work; or stop a cook because the app is stuck on “starting.” The app needs to be more stable

Broke after 2.5yr and unusable. In fact, it started turning itself on, which was very concerning

I love love LOVE my Anova precision combi oven! I wish I’d discovered it sooner. There is a learning curve, but once I got the hang of it I use it all the time. I also love the many recipes with preset oven programs ready to go—it really helped when I first started. I do hope you continue to add recipes with presets! This oven is fabulous and I recommend it to all my friends who love cooking.

The Precision Oven used to be great. It just worked. Then Anova pushed an update to the oven and the app (one that I could not opt out of because Anova changed their cloud servers) and since, the app and oven are unreliable. The oven randomly disconnects from WiFi and I have to delete the oven from the app and spend 30 minutes re-pairing because pairing fails 70% of the time. And even when the device is paired, randomly the app on my phone doesn’t connect, but my iPad connects or vice versa. And the Anova support folks are slow and snarky.