How a toaster oven helped me learn to stop worrying and love the Internet of Things

A fast convection oven and a host of other functions make this toaster oven worth a look.

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Even a hard-core, connected-appliances Luddite like myself is considering an IoT toaster oven now.

I use an IR laser thermometer to find out internal temperatures (on the rare occasions that I should).

Unless you paid extra for the Superman X-Ray Vision option your IR laser thermometer tells only the surface temperature. For sufficiently long cooking times that may approach the internal temperature, but I don't think that's the point.

 

[Errum]

Even a hard-core, connected-appliances Luddite like myself is considering an IoT toaster oven now.

I use an IR laser thermometer to find out internal temperatures (on the rare occasions that I should).

Unless you paid extra for the Superman X-Ray Vision option your IR laser thermometer tells only the surface temperature. For sufficiently long cooking times that may approach the internal temperature, but I don't think that's the point.

Well, given sufficient power, it might tell you the temperature of the exploding chicken in front of the laser; I wonder if that type of thermometer can measure a plasma?

Maybe with the Solar Eclipse Sunglasses option? ;-)

 

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I have smart TVs but none of them are connected to my network (I only bought them because the price was right).

More likely you bought smart TV’s because essentially all TV’s on the market now fall into that category, even the little $125 cheapo one in my kitchen. None of ours have ever been logged into to the local network, but I imagine that many/most people do.