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by Cpoll 3496 days ago
The only lasting complaint here is "the oven does things for you, which means you won't learn to do things yourself." Which is ridiculous, because that's the point of automation. Every other issue (bugs, price) can be chalked up to the early adopter principle.

The other fallacy is that everyone wants or needs to learn how to cook. I enjoy cooking, but sometimes I also enjoy dumping ingredients into a rice cooker and firing and forgetting.

I think the thermal sensor is a very clever bit of tech. I'm guessing the estimates won't be perfect because the oven can't gauge thickness, and it refines estimates once it measures the rate of heating.

> The salmon's done at 6:52 p.m.

Which is meaningless, because this is the first time the article's mentioned the time.