Tovala. A different type of Meal Delivery Kit :)

[jmcquown]

In years past we have discussed things like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron
subscription type meal kits where a company (not the supermarket)
provides and delivers all the fresh ingredients with printed recipes to
cook a meal. Those plans are usually touted at $40 off your first
order! which makes me wonder how expensive that meal with ingredients
for one meal for 4 people actually costs. Hmmmm.

This is even more fun! Tovala. Right now you can get a tabletop Smart
Oven for only $49. Get started then buy meals for as low as $11.99 each
to cook in it. Subscribe and save!

I've been seeing advertisements for this for a while.

https://www.tovala.com/how-it-works

NO, I have no plans to try this "smart oven".

It appears you couldn't do anything else with this oven. It looks like
you have to tap one of the smart recipe cards to activate the smart oven
and then it will only cook whatever for as long as that card says so
you'd better have added one of those expensive prepped raw meals that
make 1-2 servings all at once with no alterations. My vote: no thank
you. :)

Jill

[Michael Trew]

Post by jmcquown
In years past we have discussed things like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron
subscription type meal kits where a company (not the supermarket)
provides and delivers all the fresh ingredients with printed recipes to
cook a meal. Those plans are usually touted at $40 off your first order!
which makes me wonder how expensive that meal with ingredients for one
meal for 4 people actually costs. Hmmmm.
This is even more fun! Tovala. Right now you can get a tabletop Smart
Oven for only $49. Get started then buy meals for as low as $11.99 each
to cook in it. Subscribe and save!
I've been seeing advertisements for this for a while.
https://www.tovala.com/how-it-works
NO, I have no plans to try this "smart oven".
It appears you couldn't do anything else with this oven. It looks like
you have to tap one of the smart recipe cards to activate the smart oven
and then it will only cook whatever for as long as that card says so
you'd better have added one of those expensive prepped raw meals that
make 1-2 servings all at once with no alterations. My vote: no thank
you. :)
Jill

*ONLY* $11.99 per meal?? Yikes, I could sit down dine in a decent
restaurant around here for $12/meal. If not in an urban area like
Pittsburgh, it would include tip also. That's the starting price. No
thanks, I'll shop for my own meat/produce.

"Our meals cook themselves with the help of a smart oven that does all
the work for you. (Yeah, you read that right.)"

How lazy can you be? Apparently, that's the audience that they are
marketing to... lol.

[Michael Trew]

Post by jmcquown
In years past we have discussed things like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron
subscription type meal kits where a company (not the supermarket)
provides and delivers all the fresh ingredients with printed recipes to
cook a meal. Those plans are usually touted at $40 off your first order!
which makes me wonder how expensive that meal with ingredients for one
meal for 4 people actually costs. Hmmmm.
This is even more fun! Tovala. Right now you can get a tabletop Smart
Oven for only $49. Get started then buy meals for as low as $11.99 each
to cook in it. Subscribe and save!
I've been seeing advertisements for this for a while.
https://www.tovala.com/how-it-works
NO, I have no plans to try this "smart oven".
It appears you couldn't do anything else with this oven. It looks like
you have to tap one of the smart recipe cards to activate the smart oven
and then it will only cook whatever for as long as that card says so
you'd better have added one of those expensive prepped raw meals that
make 1-2 servings all at once with no alterations. My vote: no thank
you. :)
Jill

*ONLY* $11.99 per meal?? Yikes, I could sit down dine in a decent
restaurant around here for $12/meal. If not in an urban area like
Pittsburgh, it would include tip also. That's the starting price. No
thanks, I'll shop for my own meat/produce.
"Our meals cook themselves with the help of a smart oven that does all
the work for you. (Yeah, you read that right.)"
How lazy can you be? Apparently, that's the audience that they are
marketing to... lol.

Or people who never learned to cook, and don't want (or are too timid) to
learn. Or people who subsist mostly on take-out who want to think they
are eating more healthfully. Or members of the professional class who
don't have time to shop and cook.

Why don't you give it a go, Cindy, and let us know how it turns out? ;)

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I'd be a bit concerned about the green soylent variety myself...

Cindy Hamilton

[bruce bowser]

Post by jmcquown
In years past we have discussed things like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron
subscription type meal kits where a company (not the supermarket)
provides and delivers all the fresh ingredients with printed recipes to
cook a meal. Those plans are usually touted at $40 off your first order!
which makes me wonder how expensive that meal with ingredients for one
meal for 4 people actually costs. Hmmmm.
This is even more fun! Tovala. Right now you can get a tabletop Smart
Oven for only $49. Get started then buy meals for as low as $11.99 each
to cook in it. Subscribe and save!
I've been seeing advertisements for this for a while.
https://www.tovala.com/how-it-works
NO, I have no plans to try this "smart oven".
It appears you couldn't do anything else with this oven. It looks like
you have to tap one of the smart recipe cards to activate the smart oven
and then it will only cook whatever for as long as that card says so
you'd better have added one of those expensive prepped raw meals that
make 1-2 servings all at once with no alterations. My vote: no thank
you. :)
Jill

*ONLY* $11.99 per meal?? Yikes, I could sit down dine in a decent
restaurant around here for $12/meal. If not in an urban area like
Pittsburgh, it would include tip also. That's the starting price. No
thanks, I'll shop for my own meat/produce.
"Our meals cook themselves with the help of a smart oven that does all
the work for you. (Yeah, you read that right.)"
How lazy can you be? Apparently, that's the audience that they are
marketing to... lol.

Or people who never learned to cook, and don't want (or are too timid) to
learn. Or people who subsist mostly on take-out who want to think they
are eating more healthfully.

And with all these new diet drinks and bottled fruit and/or vegetable smoothies, they might actually be.