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Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by dragonwriter »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #44
untog wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1500 is a lot for an oven that can't cook very much food. It looks like it would serve two people, max? And it can only cook one thing at a time so wave goodbye to roasting veggies while the meat cooks. People who are passionate about cooking tend to do it for more people than just themselves.

It fits a 12 pound turkey. That's a small turkey, but it'll feed a lot more than 2 people.

> It fits a 12 pound turkey. That's a small turkey, but it'll feed a lot more than 2 people.

And, for those who find a turkey a less-than-stellar example for whatever reason, a 12-pound turkey is a lot larger than a roughly four-pound roast, which (with various different marinades and preparation techiques) is the base for lots of ~6-8 serving main course recipes.

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by athenot »

danbruc wrote: post #9
jcromartie wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To stream video from the full HD camera. Now, any idea why an oven needs a full HD camera?

To be able to identify the food you put into it using machine vision. Now, any idea why an oven needs to identify the food you put into it?

Image recognition with visible spectrum is pretty limited. I can put a egg-based or sugar-based glaze on something and it will turn brown faster, without making the meat cook any faster.

What might be more interesting is a gas-phase chromatography which analyses the vapors and deduces the various reactions going on. But that's going to be severely over-kill (and incredibly priced).

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by mynameisvlad »

smackfu wrote: post #48
bryanlarsen wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It fits a 12 pound turkey. That's a small turkey, but it'll feed a lot more than 2 people.

No one cooks turkey except on Thanksgiving, so that's an odd example to choose.

The fact that whole turkey is available year round disagrees with that statement.

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by bryanlarsen »

compumike wrote: post #49

There's a market developing here within the "temperature controlled smart cooking" world, with the number of different engineering approaches growing rapidly. Y Combinator alone has funded three companies in this space already! Pantelligent (YC W13) - $199 - https://www.pantelligent.com/ - smart frying pan plus smartphone app. Recipes are smart software & give you instructions to adjust on the fly to provide perfect…

You forgot Meld: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meld/meld-a-perfect-mea... ($129 pre-order)

To me, it looks the most compelling because it's both the cheapest and most versatile.

I backed both Pantelligent & Meld. But if Meld would have kickstarted first, I wouldn't have backed Pantelligent.

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by dragonwriter »

smackfu wrote: post #48
bryanlarsen wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It fits a 12 pound turkey. That's a small turkey, but it'll feed a lot more than 2 people.

No one cooks turkey except on Thanksgiving, so that's an odd example to choose.

> No one cooks turkey except on Thanksgiving

There are lots of people who cook turkey only on Thanksgiving, but it is far from true that no one cooks turkey except on Thanksgiving.

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by outsidetheparty »

> Like cruise control on your car, June continually calculates the power needed to maintain a constant temperature

So you say it has a thermostat in it, then?

> Food cooks faster while using less energy than traditional ovens

So you say it's a convection oven, then?

> June sends you a push notification when your food is done. And you can customize your alerts so you aren’t disturbed you when you’re away from home.

So you say I can disable the alert... that tells me dinner is ready... because I'm away from... um. Somebody didn't really think this one through, then?

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by [deleted] »

compumike wrote: post #49

There's a market developing here within the "temperature controlled smart cooking" world, with the number of different engineering approaches growing rapidly. Y Combinator alone has funded three companies in this space already! Pantelligent (YC W13) - $199 - https://www.pantelligent.com/ - smart frying pan plus smartphone app. Recipes are smart software & give you instructions to adjust on the fly to provide perfect…

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Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by mey »

Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #47
zoba wrote: post #2

Any idea why an oven needs an "NVIDIA Tegra K1 with 2.3 GHz quad-core processor and 192 CUDA GPU cores"? Seems like overkill?

Perhaps that is the heating element

Usually I downvote or ignore snarky comments on HN as the site tries to keep things on topic and somewhat constructive, but I have to admit I had a good laugh at this.

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by compumike »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #54
compumike wrote: post #49

There's a market developing here within the "temperature controlled smart cooking" world, with the number of different engineering approaches growing rapidly. Y Combinator alone has funded three companies in this space already! Pantelligent (YC W13) - $199 - https://www.pantelligent.com/ - smart frying pan plus smartphone app. Recipes are smart software & give you instructions to adjust on the fly to provide perfect…

You forgot Meld: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meld/meld-a-perfect-mea... ($129 pre-order) To me, it looks the most compelling because it's both the cheapest and most versatile. I backed both Pantelligent & Meld. But if Meld would have kickstarted first, I wouldn't have backed Pantelligent.

Thanks for your support Bryan!

Meld is certainly interesting; manufacturing is going to be a challenge for them with a lot of moving parts, but in any case, it may work for some soups/stews types of dishes, but it won't be compatible with most of Pantelligent recipes (asparagus, eggs, crepes, pancakes, bacon). And a Meld-style internal temperature probe alone would be significantly worse than Pantelligent for foods like steak and salmon; I know that at first glance it seems like internal temperature is the temperature to measure and optimize for, but you also have to control the external/surface temperature or else it's "unobservable" and will lead to either undercooked or overcooked meats! You can not simply do feedback around the internal temperature. (That's one of the key engineering insights of Pantelligent.)

Re: June Intelligent Oven

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Post by benbot »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #54
compumike wrote: post #49

There's a market developing here within the "temperature controlled smart cooking" world, with the number of different engineering approaches growing rapidly. Y Combinator alone has funded three companies in this space already! Pantelligent (YC W13) - $199 - https://www.pantelligent.com/ - smart frying pan plus smartphone app. Recipes are smart software & give you instructions to adjust on the fly to provide perfect…

You forgot Meld: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meld/meld-a-perfect-mea... ($129 pre-order) To me, it looks the most compelling because it's both the cheapest and most versatile. I backed both Pantelligent & Meld. But if Meld would have kickstarted first, I wouldn't have backed Pantelligent.

There's also Mellow, which seems to be further along than most of the other noted options: https://cookmellow.com ($400 first pre-order run)
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