Anova Precision Oven 2.0 is What Every Home Chef Needs

Back in the day, people learned secret recipes for their favorite dishes from their grandmas and then shared them through generations like a heirloom. I miss that time. The hours spent experimenting with new recipes and perfecting the old ones were marvelous. Many people still do it. However, the advancement in technology and loosened touch with our roots have led to inventions of smart gadgets and appliances that make it easier for us to rely on other people’s recipes. Or in this case, an oven that recognizes your food and tells you how to cook it.

Meet Anova Precision Oven 2.0, a smart microwave oven that makes many countertop appliances redundant. It is a connected combi oven with a convection fan, steam injection, an integrated temperature probe, and a smart camera-guided cooking. All the upgraded features allow home chefs to get that perfect result every time. It is a boon for people who want quick meals without doing much work. Aside from its smart features, it gives you manual control if you do not want to utilize the others.

The new appliance blends the restaurant-level versatility of a traditional combi oven with enhanced technology. The Anova Intelligence-powered Guided Cooking paired with a smart camera recognizes what you are preparing and adjusts the oven controls for the best cooking time possible.

I didn’t say relying on technological advancements in your kitchen is bad: especially since the new Anova oven does everything from steaming, air frying, dehydrating, broiling, sous videing, and proofing to roasting, toasting, defrosting, and baking. The only thing that worries me is that the feature that identifies the food in it and suggests the best cooking methods for specific items will take the fun out of experimenting while cooking.

Consider this: you have placed food inside the oven and got busy with other chores, only to come back to a burnt dish or a blaring smoke alarm. I know it happens, happens to me frequently. Burned a lot of pies and muffins back in the day. Thanks to Anova Intelligence, the oven sends alerts to the users if they forget the food inside or when the oven is on. It even scans the back of frozen food bags or a full recipe from a cookbook to adjust the cooking settings automatically, minimizing manual intervention. This reduces the guesswork, keeping cooking errors to a minimum.

Aside from the alerts it sends, the other thing I found interesting about the Anova Precision Oven 2.0 is the limitless cooking potential with the 12 modes it offers. Combining the qualities of different countertop appliances, the oven grants you bathless/bagless sous viding, air frying, broiling, steam-injected bathing, roasting, bread and dough proofing, dehydrating fruits or meats and so much more. This particular addition is good as I don’t have a lot of counter space to accommodate all the different appliances I need for various processes in the kitchen. It makes it easier for me to cook and for an effortless kitchen space management.

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If you are wondering about the temperature controls on the Anova 2.0 oven, it has three temperature sensors. A combination of Proportional Integral Derivative control loops and a heavy onboard microprocessor to control heating make it easier to adjust temperature settings.

The app connectivity further makes it a coveted item in your kitchen. Anova users can find sous vide and combi oven recipes via a subscription service at just $2/month. This lets you check the dishes live or monitor them remotely in real time.

Weighing 51.8 lbs (23.5kg), the Anova Precision Oven 2.0 provides a 38-liter internal volume with a 2.4-liter water tank capacity. This oven is a nifty appliance I really would like on my countertop. It is retailing on Anova’s website for $1,199 for now and should be available in major retailers in early 2025.