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Anova Culinary
Basic information
Founded 2013
Type Subsidiary
Industry Small appliances, Kitchenware
Official website https://www.anovaculinary.com/

Anova Culinary, registered as Anova Applied Electronics, Inc., is a company headquartered in San Francisco that specializes in smart kitchen appliances designed for home cooking. Their product range includes devices such as sous-vide cookers, combination ovens, and vacuum sealers. In 2014, Anova introduced the Anova Precision Cooker, which claims to be the first sous-vide cooking device with Bluetooth connectivity, followed by a Wi-Fi-enabled version in 2015.

In 2014, Anova introduced The Anova Precision Oven, a countertop combi oven designed to function independently as a sous-vide solution or in conjunction with existing "Precision Cooker" products. It has both steam and convection cooking functions.

Consumer impact summary

The company attempted to perform a bait and switch on the consumers who purchased devices that provided free access to their app reversing course following backlash. In addition because they do not provide connectivity to their app via common models, requiring use of their servers they inadventenlty limit the usefull life of their products by how long they are willing to support them.

Incidents

Always-online Oven with cloud dependency

Instead of connecting locally through common models like Bluetooth or WiFi-based solutions such as mDNS/Bonjour, all app functionality requires that the Oven is connected through the Anova's Firebase instance.[citation needed]

Anova Oven App Subscription Model

In 2024 (notably, shortly prior to the release of the Anova Precision Oven 2) Anova announced that they would be switching the app to a subscription model. This meant that any previously created or used recipe programmes would now require a paid account to activate.

The company later partially back-tracked on this, by allowing existing owners of the Anova Precision Oven 1 to be grandfathered under the previously free model. New purchases of the Anova Precision Oven 1 or version 2 model will still be subject to the new subscription model.[1]

Anova Precision Oven 1 faulty connections in handle

Many Reddit users have reported that the oven's touch display can become unfunctional due to broken cables in the door handle.[2][3][4][5]

See also

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