Best Smart Ovens of 2024
Whether you love cooking or find the process boring, a smart oven can improve your experience. These days, almost every appliance is a smart appliance. With all of our electronics becoming smart, the world is starting to resemble an episode of The Jetsons. While smart lights, fans, and doorbells are becoming more common, smart ovens exist, and they can take your cooking to the next level.
The smart oven is an unexpected but useful smart gadget. It’s a great example of smart appliances that are infiltrating our kitchens and making it easier than ever to manage and cook meals. A smart oven can act as your own personal sous chef, with features like recipe walkthroughs, a smart display, and more, making cooking a breeze. There are even Bluetooth thermometers to control cooking temperatures and appliances such as Samsung’s Smart Refrigerator Family Hub.
Just when we thought smart kitchen gadgets had reached their peak, smart countertop ovens have arrived and they’re much more exciting than a conventional oven. They’re the size of a microwave, but they can perform dozens of tasks, including cooking, baking, toasting, drying, and even rising dough.
Some work with voice assistants; others recognize food with AI cameras, or scan frozen food packages or frozen pizzas from your local supermarket. Here are the standout smart ovens we tested.
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The Tovala Smart Oven is built around Tovala’s chef-prepared meal kits. Those meal kits are pricey at $12 per serving, but you can buy the oven without the meals and still get plenty of use out of it.
That’s because the Tovala Smart Oven can scan 750 different groceries from your local store and use steam, bake, grill, and toast functions to cook your dish during the cooking process. There’s no voice assistant compatibility, but there is a Tovala app that lets you control the oven, view recipes, and more.
Amazon’s Smart Oven also scans food, but only a handful, and most of it comes from Whole Foods’ inventory. If you’re interested in the Tovala toaster oven, I recommend checking out the meal kits, which are easy to make, delicious, and interesting. The oven is often on sale or promotion for less than its $299 MSRP, so if price is a barrier, check the Tovala website for deals.
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The June Oven in its second generation is the best oven we tested when it comes to recognizing food. There are plenty of cooking mode options, including settings for convection bake, slow cook, toaster, broil, and more. The oven also offers on-screen cooking recommendations for different types of food, and a number of handy accessories. Use it for air frying and dehydrating, or use it as a convection oven for baking and convection cooking, or as a toaster oven for toasting.
The June Oven works with Alexa for voice commands, and with the June app you can control the oven from anywhere and watch live video of your food as it cooks. A smart cooking function monitors the core temperature for the perfect cooking time.
You can purchase the oven in a Standard package, which includes a food thermometer, roasting rack, baking sheet, wire rack, and crumb tray, for $499, or in a Gourmet package for $699, which includes baking sheets, air fryer baskets, a recipe subscription, and an extended warranty. (Please note: this item is currently out of stock, but availability on Amazon may fluctuate.)
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Smart oven comparison table
| Amazon smart oven | June Oven (currently out of stock) | Tovala Smart Oven | |
| Cost | $250 | €499 | $69 |
| Dimensions (W x H x D) | 21.8 inches x 13 inches x 21.4 inches | 19.6 inches x 12.75 inches x 19 inches | 18.5 inches x 11.75 inches x 12.32 inches |
| Voice assistant compatibility | Alexa | Alexa | No |
| Cooking settings | Microwave, convection baking, automatic roasting, keep warm, air frying | Convection baking, toasting, air frying, drying, slow cooking, grilling, keeping warm | Steaming, roasting, grilling, baking |
| Included accessories | High and low grill racks, temperature probe, air fryer | Thermometer, roasting rack, baking tray, grill, crumb tray | Oven mitt, baking tray, oven rack, measuring cup |
This category is only a few years old and we have seen a lot of growth. We tested a limited release smart oven from The WLabs from WhirlpoolThe .
These ovens may be the best ones out there now, but they certainly won’t be the last. More and more companies are showing interest in this category, so we’ll keep testing new models as they come out.
Originally published previously and updated regularly as we review new products.
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