• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wait

    “Our community has literally cooked 100s of millions of times with our app. Unfortunately, each connected cook costs us money.”

    The cooker, It’s FUCKING Bluetooth. It doesn’t need to call home, it can’t call home. The App, It has a list of 35 different sous vide recipes that could live on the app. The app has no business calling home, they don’t need a server.

    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
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      3 months ago

      And if each did cost them money - they’ve been paid when the stupid thing was purchased!

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, it’s a $200 heater. Probably $30 in parts. You can run a small cluster for the profit in a few sales a month.

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      3 months ago

      It’s a cooker. Why the hell does it even need bluetooth, let alone an internet connection?

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        3 months ago

        So it can notify you when the water has reached the set temperature or the time you set for cooking is up. Which can be handy. However, I found the BT very weak on my Anova and it would lose connection when I went into my home office a mere 25’ away, so I stopped using it. There’s actually no need for the water to be up to temperature before you put your food in, and food can sit as long as you want; half the point of sous vide is to be able to hold food at temp without overcooking. So you don’t really need the timer either.

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        3 months ago

        I have something similar, but wifi. Never even tried to connect to it, because you just use the buttons to set temp & time.

        I can imagine, though, that an app might have buttons for ‘eggs’, ‘yogurt’, ‘steak’, etc. Or maybe let you program temperature-time sequences. Or let you check how much time is left from the next room. Conveniences. Definitely no need for them to phone home, though, except maybe for an ad-driven ‘recipe of the week’ type thing.