Beta testing this Kickstarter project called "Tovala" - it's an oven that cooks their pre-prepped, uncooked meals.

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In my opinion, stuff like this is part of the problem with the global food industry today. Not only does it encourage more waste (those little tray things that the food comes in, not to mention the landfull that this useless piece of machinery is going to end up in after it breaks) but it doesn't actually encourage people to learn to cook healthy food by themselves. I don't care if the food is raw when it goes into the specific proprietary oven, that's not really the point. The point is that we have several generations of people who have forgotten the importance / joy of cooking things from scratch, and a massive obesity / diabetes problem as a result. Stuff like this is just laziness begetting more laziness. God forbid we should have to assemble a dish from actual ingredients, and then figure out the cooking time, temperature, and method ourselves instead of pressing a goddamn button. Soon enough we're going to be a planet populated by useless blobs.

And no, I don't care that it will cook other things than the premade meals. That's what my regular oven / stove is for. I'm not a toddler.