What is a smart oven?
Combining innovative digital tools with flexible cooking methods, smart ovens are powerful tools that can include digital features like voice control, remote monitoring and interchangeable attachments. Smart ovens are designed to elevate cooking experiences and help you unlock culinary potential.
With a smart oven, like these options from KitchenAid brand, you can begin experimenting with cooking technology to enhance how you create your favorite dishes. With this guide, you’ll learn how you can use various smart oven features to bring new dimension to your recipes.
What does a smart oven do?
Smart ovens can help improve your cooking experience by using Wi-Fi connectivity to give you easy control over cooking functions and features. With smart ovens, you'll often be able to use a smartphone app for remote control and monitoring, which may also feature helpful cooking and maintenance information.
Understanding how the different features on your smart oven work can help you get the most out of your appliance as you begin experimenting with the full range of its connected abilities.
1. Interchangeable attachments
Whether you want to achieve deliciously steamed broccoli and salmon or an evenly cooked homemade pizza, interchangeable smart oven parts like baking stones and steamers can give you access to a wider array of cooking styles and methods.
The KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ combines a collection of oven-powered grill, baking stone and steamer attachments. Each fits interchangeably into a provided heating element and base pan that connect to the back of the oven cavity. You control the cooking process through the oven's controls or a mobile app to take on classic recipes and new culinary challenges.
2. Mobile oven operation
Granting you remote access to cooking functions like preheating, powering on/off and timer adjustment, many smart ovens allow you to operate your appliance via a smartphone app. If it has one, exploring the different capabilities of your appliance’s mobile app can help you keep a closer eye on your recipes as they cook and improve the flexibility of your cooking experience overall.
Use the mobile app with your KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ for improved control over your recipes through precision timing and remote access.1 Stay connected with your Smart Oven+ outside of the kitchen by controlling the appliance and its attachments through your mobile device to preheat, bake and save custom cooking instructions for an even smoother cooking experience.
1. Appliance must be set to remote enable. Wi-Fi & App required. Features subject to change. For details and privacy info, visit kitchenaid.com/connect.
3. Remote monitoring
In addition to on-the-go operation, you may also be able to use your smart oven app to access remote monitoring features that can help you keep a constant eye on your dishes even when you’re not in the kitchen.
The KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ gives you the power of remote oven operation or monitoring via connected services like Amazon or Google for a seamless appliance management experience. With mobile technology on select KitchenAid® oven models, you can also leverage Scan-to-Cook technology to help you choose the optimal cooking settings for each recipe with the added oversight of helpful cooking updates and notifications delivered right to your device.
4. Assisted cooking
When you’re trying a new recipe for the first time, a smart wall oven with assisted cooking features can help you navigate your recipes by providing recommended timing and temperatures for your dish.
Assisted Cooking Modes on select KitchenAid® wall ovens suggest cook times and temperatures on an easy-to-navigate touch screen so you can explore new recipes with confidence.
5. Advanced cooking functions
The beauty of many smart ovens, aside from the fact that many of them have remote capabilities and interchangeable attachments, is the powerful cooking functions that many of them offer. These cooking functions vary per model, but may range from steaming capabilities and slow cooking settings to an oven function that is designed to cook fresh pizza, similar to a pizza oven.
Select KitchenAid® ovens offer cooking functions like No Preheat Slow Roast that cooks tender meats, pastas and much more without the hassle of a separate appliance; Fresh Pizza Mode that helps you create homemade, restaurant-style pizzas from the comfort of your kitchen; or Steam Bake with Tray, which adds moisture during the baking process so you can enjoy Basque cheesecake, or fluffy, moist honey wheat sandwich bread.
How do you use a KitchenAid® smart oven?
KitchenAid® smart cooking appliances are designed with your creative passions in mind. With the familiar look and feel of traditional wall ovens or ranges, you can use your smart oven to create deliciously cooked meals with support and guidance throughout the cooking process.
While you can enjoy improved monitoring ability through the smart technology capabilities of select ranges by KitchenAid brand, using the Smart Oven+ gives you access to an array of oven attachments that can help you navigate advanced cooking techniques right at home.
Selecting a KitchenAid® +Powered Attachment to use for your recipe is easy with the accompanying roll-out rack for easy access and storage. Use one +Powered Attachment at a time to begin experimenting with different techniques for roasting, searing, steaming and more.
Digital features of the KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ allow you to experiment with innovative possibilities for your recipes. To set up your KitchenAid® Wi-Fi-enabled appliance, simply download the KitchenAid™ app from your mobile device to get your connection started.
To take full advantage of your KitchenAid® appliance's capabilities, access other powerful digital features remotely via the Smart Oven+ companion app or your voice-enabled device.
KitchenAid® Smart+ wall ovens
Oven attachments to unlock your creativity
KitchenAid® Smart+ wall ovens offer interchangeable attachments that connect directly to a powered hub in your oven to create whatever your imagination calls for next
Can you use a smart oven without Wi-Fi?
You can generally use a smart oven just as you would a traditional wall or range unit by making manual oven selections on the appliance's touchscreen or control panel. However, without an internet connection, you won't have access to any of your smart oven’s online capabilities, such as remote access and monitoring.
For model-specific information on manual and remote operation of your smart oven, consult the use and care guide for your appliance.
KitchenAid® smart oven attachments
KitchenAid® Smart Oven+ models feature a variety of interchangeable smart oven attachments that connect directly to your appliance for greater control and versatility in the kitchen.
The +Baking Stone, +Grill and +Steamer Attachments2 can help you achieve just the right textures for recipes like crispy seared kabobs, grilled homemade burgers or even a full-course dinner for four. Learn how each of the attachments available for your smart oven work to continue exploring your culinary potential.
2. Baking stone and steamer attachments shipped separately. See full details.
Smart oven steamer
Situated at the center of the oven cavity, the Steamer+ Attachment uses the energy from the heating element to create foods that are tender and moist. Use the Steamer+ Attachment to achieve juicy meat and fish dishes or deliciously baked breads that are crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside.
Smart oven baking stone
The Baking Stone+ Attachment is great for cooking recipes that call for crispy, restaurant-style textures for recipes like homemade pizza, chocolate chip cookies or handmade crab cakes. To heat food, the Baking Stone+ Attachment sits in the center of the oven above the heating element that allows you to work with a large surface for arranging different ingredients.
Smart oven grill
The Grill+ Attachment is a particularly helpful way to experiment with grilled meats or vegetables in your oven. Powered by the oven’s heating element at the center of the oven, the Grill+ Attachment helps food cook evenly across the length of the grill, minimizing smoke and reducing flares.
Shop KitchenAid® smart ranges
Enjoy a range of possibilities with KitchenAid® smart gas and electric ranges. Select Wi-Fi-enabled Smart Appliances from KitchenAid brand feature Convection Cooking Modes to help you get consistent results with optimal temperatures. Select models, like this option from KitchenAid brand, offer Rapid Preheat, which gets your oven to 350°F in under 8 minutes.3 This oven can be cleaned with two distinct cleaning cycles: the Steam Clean Cycle, perfect for quick, routine maintenance, and the high-temperature Self-Clean Cycle for a deeper clean.
3. Using Rapid Preheat to 350 degrees when cooktop is not in use.
