Anova Culinary

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

Bait-and-switch
Service Siphoning
Self-destructive Design and/or Planned Obsolescence

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.

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]

Products

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References

[1] ttps://anovaculinary.com/en-gb/blogs/blog/update-existing-users-grandfathered-in-new-users-will-pay-a-small-app-subscription-fee

[2] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/CombiSteamOvenCooking/comments/1epqz1r/comment/m7vghla/

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/CombiSteamOvenCooking/comments/1997qhr/my_anova_precision_oven_display_just_failed_whats/

[4] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/AnovaPrecisionOven/comments/190hbyw/buzzing_and_unresponsive_handle/

[5] ttps://community.anovaculinary.com/t/my-apo-died-after-only-3-years-your-thoughts/33287/18

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