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by joshlittle 2306 days ago
Would the Underwriters Laboratory even certify this nonsense?
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“App enabled” ovens, if you read the manual, come in one of two flavors:

* Bluetooth only, no WiFi, to mandate proximity

* Manual activation steps required, like turning the knob to a “remote enable” setting, so you have to validate that nothing that’ll catch fire is in the oven.

A big reason this was done was because the UL has a real distaste for combining fire with not being present to watch the fire - and that’s in a closed space by an appliance that is purpose built for that.

So yeah, no. Absolutely not.

Try ETL? :)