What Users Really Think About Anova Oven

Catastrophic WiFi reliability and forced cloud dependency making expensive hardware unusable

"The wifi connectivity is absolutely appalling. Almost everytime I try to use this app to use my oven, I open the app only to see the 'oven not found' message."

"the app is most politely described as a flaming dumpster of fabulously inept engineering"

Bravo to the Anova team! They’ve managed to lose recipes once again with the most recent update. I bake the same 6 stage sourdough recipe every week. This morning I awake to find they’ve simplified the recipe into just 2 stages. Sadly those two stages won’t result in a successful bake.

It’s always something with this app. Now, it won’t open no matter what you do since it’s just a black screen

I have the Precision Cooker which already costs a ton of money. Why can’t users added to my household cooker also look up recipes in the app? Stupid money grab if it requires a subscription for the same household.

The 2.0 oven’s hardware is nice, and it does a good job cooking. However, it is so difficult to connect it to WiFi (and maintain that connection) that it is easier to cook in manual mode and ignore any subscription-locked features. Most of the times I go to use the oven, I discover that it has disco...

Latest app version doesn’t pair with oven

My Anova Nova originally promised mobile phone controls with no added charges. Now it has disabled use of the sous vide unit unless one pays subscription charges for their app. US Legal violation & if we still had a Consumer Protection bureau, this would be subject to investigation & monetary pena...

Constant issues when starting the oven or the next cooking stage via the app. Most times it will outright never start or go to the next stage when I click the button; it’ll just think for minutes, which can absolutely ruin meals and bakes. This never happened until some of the new updates a couple m...

I updated the firmware of my 2.0 and it seems to have killed the oven. I tried contacting Anova and they answer, but then it goes straight to their voicemail. And the support section of their website is of absolutely no help. And yes. I unplugged the thing before trying to contact Anova. Very poor s...