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I legitimately love to cook, but I am also busy and tired and am known to frequently order from Grubhub. For the last six months, however I have been using the Brava Glass smart oven—which is currently $400 off for Prime Day—and it has made cooking at home way less cumbersome.
The Brava Glass is a smart countertop stove with the same footprint as a large toaster oven, but it uses a series of light tubes to cook everything absurdly fast, and it is almost entirely hands off. You just look up what you’d like to cook via the touchscreen, and then choose your recipe.
There are two temperature probes (a wired and a wireless), and you can use either, though in many cases don’t have to use them at all. The oven comes with a slate of metal trays, glass trays, egg trays, and even a really nice earthenware casserole, all for use in the oven. The touchscreen guides you through all the steps, which tray to use, whether to put it on top or bottom, and how to insert the temperature probe, if needed. Once you turn the oven on, you get video of the food cooking via the app on your phone.
The oven handles everything. If you need to flip the food, the oven will stop, notify you and wait for you to do so. Once the food is done, the oven turns off. What’s even weirder is that because of the way it cooks, the outside of the oven isn’t hot at all.
If you don’t find the right recipe on the touch screen, you can simply set the temperature and time for the oven and use it as you would any other. Something about the way the light works makes this so fast and effective—roasted potatoes are browned to perfection in 10 minutes. Any protein comes out perfectly cooked, seared on the outside, tender on the inside. There is no easier way to roast some vegetables or cook a pie. Mostly what I use it for is to just throw a protein and veg on the tray, dress it with salt, pepper, and olive oil and let the oven take care of it. It requires a bare minimum of effort while ensuring an incredibly high level of success.
The Brava Glass is $400 off for Prime Day, and while it’s expensive for a countertop oven, if it helps you order delivery a little less frequently—and I think it will—the math works out.
