Samsung smart oven cooks, cleans and counts your calories

February 24th, 2012

The Samsung Zipel smart oven uses a smartphone app and WiFi connectivity to order the oven to cook.

Using the app the oven can be remotely programmed to cook 160 different dishes and then clean itself. It will even tell you the calorific content of the meal you have (virtually) prepared, and it’s weight.

The 'appy oven

This website understands that because the oven uses it’s own WiFi router a user won’t be able to programme cooking from outside of the house.

The app is available only on the Android marketplace (the mobile platform used by Samsung and many non-Apple mobiles), and it is optimised for smartphones with a 800×480 touchscreen, such as the Samsung Galaxy S2.

The 36-litre ceramic oven itself also introduces advanced technology, such as infra-red cooking for greater versatility. It can bake, microwave, grill, steam, ‘ferment’, and dry.

Helping you to diet, or to obsess?

WiFi connectivity, app-operated smart appliances are the new ‘in thing’ to enter households, many of which were revealed at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For example, the LG Thinq Smart fridge can send a message to a user’s smartphone when running low on products, such as milk. It can also use voice recognition to advise healthy meal options for a specific person based on the contents of the fridge.

Samsung has launched the smart oven in the company’s native Korea and it is unclear when it will be released elsewhere or at what price.

Dinner, done by app

Keri Algar

Having once had to sit on the washing machine to stop it from bouncing into oblivion, Keri is today delighted with the new (smoother running) technologies that make housework easier every day. A self-confessed lazy-bones, Keri seeks out quirky inventions that ease the human workload, such as the robotic vacuum cleaner (wow). And as soon as someone figures out a Jetsons-like self-cleaning house, she will happily lay her pen to rest and retire from appliance journalism. Until then, her pick is a fridge that will tell her smartphone when it's time to pick up more beer on the way home. Magic.