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What is a smart oven, and what does it do?
Smart ovens help you cut down on routine steps to get dinner on the table fast. They can allow you to monitor and control your oven from your smartphone or even with your voice. Read this article to learn more about the ways smart technology helps you multitask and get answers to common questions.
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What is a smart oven?
Smart ovens use an internet connection to help you get more done at once. Through Wi-Fi-enabled “smart” features like voice control and remote monitoring, smart ovens help you get dinner on the table while you tackle other tasks in the kitchen.
Typically, you can control your smart oven from your smartphone through an app. In addition to remote control and monitoring, the app also usually provides information on how to cook and maintain your oven. This differs from a traditional oven that cannot connect to Wi-Fi or an affiliated app.
With select Whirlpool® Smart Ovens connected to the Whirlpool® App, you can remotely control your appliance, monitor cooking progress and more. Once you’re connected to select smart models, updates and new cycles are downloaded as they’re released.1
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What does a smart oven do?
Many smart ovens let you remotely set the oven temperature, select settings and monitor cooking progress. You may also receive alerts when a meal is done or when your oven needs maintenance. Some smart ovens can also adapt to the way you cook, giving you instant access to the settings you use most.
For example, Whirlpool® Smart Ranges and Wall Ovens help you keep dinner on your schedule by offering multiple ways to multitask:
1. Control your smart oven by app
Now you can control your range right from your phone. When your appliance is connected to Wi-Fi, the Whirlpool® App makes it easy to manage mealtime from outside the kitchen any time you want to preheat your oven from another room or delay dinnertime after the timer goes off. App features on select models from Whirlpool brand may include:
- Keep Warm Setting: When you’re in the middle of checking homework, this setting delivers low heat to keep food warm in the oven until you’re ready to eat.
- Scan-to-Cook Technology: Scan a frozen food barcode with your smartphone or tablet and send recommended or customized cooking instructions straight to your oven for dinner done the way your family wants it.
- Multi-Step Cooking: Send multiple cooking instructions to the oven at once from your phone.1 The temperature automatically adjusts so you don’t have to monitor the meal, and your world-famous lasagna your in-laws have been craving will taste exactly as it should.
- Automatic Updates: Select Whirlpool® Smart Ranges and Wall Ovens get smarter over time with new cycles and Automatic Feature Updates.1 Once your appliance is connected, it downloads updates and adds new cycles as they’re released.
Note: Features may vary by model. Consult your product manual for model-specific information.
2. Control your smart oven by voice-enabled device
You don’t even have to touch your oven to control it; instead, select models work with both the Google Assistant and Alexa-enabled devices so you can use simple voice commands to keep up no matter what you’ve got on your hands.1 Now, when you’re up to your elbows in pizza dough and marinara sauce with your flour-dusted sous chef, you can simply ask your voice-enabled device to preheat the oven to 425°.
You can also set and adjust cooking modes and temperature, start oven and kitchen timers, turn on the oven light and get range and cooking status information on select models—just by asking.
3. Control your smart oven by touchscreen
This is an oven that gets to know you. The innovative touchscreen on select models actually learns and adapts to the way you cook, giving you instant access to the settings you use most—morning, noon and night.
Smart oven FAQs
If you’re still unsure whether a smart oven is right for your family, learn more about these appliances with the answers to frequently asked questions below.
Are smart ovens worth it?
For busy families, a smart oven may be just the help you need to handle mealtime between meal-prepping for the week, washing a load of sports equipment and cleaning up the kitchen from an after-school study session. The guided cooking and remote capabilities help you be more hands-off during the cooking process.
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Do smart ovens require internet access to cook?
If you just want to use your smart oven to cook traditionally, you typically do not need internet access. However, oven functionality without Wi-Fi may vary by model. Be sure to consult your product manual to understand the appliance’s capabilities with and without internet access.
What happens if my Wi‑Fi goes out while cooking?
Without an internet connection, you won’t have access to any of the smart features or online capabilities like remote access or voice control. However, you should be able to continue cooking traditionally without Wi-Fi. Check your model’s user manual to be sure about functionality with and without Wi-Fi.
Whether you choose a smart wall oven or range from Whirlpool brand, you’re getting an appliance that offers guidance and control at the touch of a button. On select models, you can even conveniently send cooking instructions right to your smart appliance from your smartphone.
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1. Appliance must be set to remote enable. Wi-Fi & App Required. Features subject to change. Details and privacy info at whirlpool.com/connect.
