Buzzfeed, the world renown media company known for its celebrity news, wants to turn you into an incredible chef with its “precision smart cooktop.” The Tasty One Top is part of a growing line of smart kitchen gadgets (Proper Tasty, Bien Tasty, and Tasty Jr.) that have revolutionized kitchens across America. Equipped with Bluetooth technology, the Tasty One countertop burner is perfect for anyone wanting an easy-to-follow time-saving solution for dinner.
Intelligent Design Features
The real magic of Buzzfeed’s Tasty One cooktop is housed in iOS compatible Tasty App (Android version en route). With access to over 1,700 recipes and videos, you can learn to boil, sear, and sous vide some of the creative dishes all from the comforts of your home. Buzzfeed’s powerful induction cooktop can create signature dishes ranging from honey garlic chicken to pineapple grilled skewers to churro ice scream. Users just simply pick the desired recipe, allow the app to adjust the settings of their Tasty One Top, and follow the instructions. You’ll know the exact moment to sauté the onions/garlic and sear your filet.
If cooking autonomously is your game, Tasty One has the option of operating the induction cooker without settings. It’s just a matter of activating the onboard controls and working your creative magic in the kitchen. You go from paint-by-numbers cooking to the freedom of a seasoned Sous Chef by simply disconnecting from the app’s instructions. Totally up to you.
Smart Cooking Technology
Armed with a temperature probe – the Tasty One precision cooker takes the guesswork out of your food’s internal temperature. Whether it’s cooking the perfect medium rare filet or making sure the burgers are well done, the Tasty One gives you insight every step of the preparation process. This is especially important if you decide to take the sous vide cooking challenge – a method that requires cooking vacuum-sealed food in a temperature-controlled water bath.
So what makes the Tasty One Top a must-have kitchen appliance? First off, the Tasty One cooker has an incredibly friendly price tag ($149) compared to competitors like the Paragon Induction Cooktop ($300) and the Hestan Cue ($650). Secondly, with millions of followers on Facebook and millions more downloading Tasty videos, there’s an element of brand recognition other cooktops just don’t have. Buzzfeed created Tasty two years ago and quickly became one of the leading influencers in easy-to-cook recipes. Buyers also have the reassurance of a kitchen gadget built from GE Appliances’ FirstBuild micro-factory in China. With the design work coming from Buzzfeed Product Labs, GE Appliances has the responsibility of engineering the cooker’s signature top.
“What we were really struggling with or thinking about is, how we can make cooking more reliable, take the guesswork out,” Ben Kaufmann, head of Buzzfeed’s Product Lab, told Wired in a recent interview. “How do we make it more comfortable… for people to express themselves and be them.”
The Tasty One Community
Buzzfeed hit the nail on the head when it designed its oven to be operable under the guidance of an intuitive iOS Tasty app. Users have a library of recipes to choose from whether it’s “16 One-Pot Dinners That Are Actually Healthy,” “17 Egg-Cooking Hacks That Are Borderline Genius,” or “28 Mediterranean Recipes You Should Make ASAP.” Equipped with a host of built-in sensors that speak to the app’s pre-programmed cooking settings, Tasty One owners can rest assured that the end product will produce consistent chef-like results from their mini-stove.
Source: Tasty One Top, Wired
Advertisement states there are 1,700 recipes available, however only 20, or so, recipes actually sync with the cooktop. Also, recipe app is not available in Android and manufacturer gives no detail as to when an Android version will be made available. They just say Android version ‘to follow’ and have been saying that for months, with no other detail regarding Android availability. Advertisement very vague on this product being available in IOS only and not available in an Android version.
Advertisement states there are 1,700 recipes available, however only 20, or so, recipes actually sync with the cooktop. Also, recipe app is not available in Android and manufacturer gives no detail as to when an Android version will be made available
Locked to Apple ecosystem, the Android app is promised for more than a 6 months and still not available.
After all I ended up writing a simple control app for my One Top – “OneTop Control” so at least you can get the temperature control work, but no recipe integration.
The cooktop itself is pretty good, if a bit overpriced. Be aware that the temperature probe is not super accurate unless you insert it into the probed food/liqued as much in as possible. Manual says 1-1.5 inches dep at the very least, but that’s not really enough.
Locked to Apple ecosystem, the Android app is promised for more than a 6 months and still not available.
After all I ended up writing a simple control app for my One Top – “OneTop Control” so at least you can get the temperature con
Works good. But no app for Android it’s the only reason I bought one
wanted one of these so bad…… I get one for Christmas and was super excited! But then after unboxing it I find out there is no android app available! Which was never stated In any kind of obvious place on the website when ordering. The only way to tell is clicking on the link from the tasty website to the app store which only takes you to the i phone app store. Howlong is it suppose to take to be able to use this $150 hotplate? Because If that’s all I was going to get out of it I would have just bought a $30 one and not wasted the rest of my money….. i will give a real review when i can actually refer to the function of the product.
wanted one of these so bad…… I get one for Christmas and was super excited! But then after unboxing it I find out there is no android app available! Which was never stated In any kind of obvious place on the website when ordering. The on
So I pre-ordered two of the One Tops after reading the advertisements.
I’m a kitchen gadget and gizmo junkie and I really like the option of the temperature probe attached and viewable and controllable via the app.
Well a few weeks after receiving it I finally had the chance to try it out. Giddily set it on my counter then grabbed my iOS device to download the app in prep for Bluetooth pairing.
Now is where the false advertising comes in. The One Top does not work with the iPad. Rather the app is not compatible for One Top use via iPad.
The manufacturer clearly stated it is only iOS compatible at this time. Nowhere in the advertisement do they state it is only iOS iPhone compatible until you dig thru the troubleshooting page and/or contact customer support.
Since my iOS device is not compatible at this time I pretty much paid for a hot plate. Can’t do precision cooking or Sous vide without a functioning temperature probe.
Very disappointed.
So I pre-ordered two of the One Tops after reading the advertisements.
I’m a kitchen gadget and gizmo junkie and I really like the option of the temperature probe attached and viewable and controllable via the app.
Well a few weeks after receiving
after 21 minutes on max temp, water does not even come to a full boil. It has uneven heating which means that cooking will be uneven. really bad design, im not sure why ireviews gives it a 4.5
do not buy, this is a waste of money and makes cooking harder than it really should be
after 21 minutes on max temp, water does not even come to a full boil. It has uneven heating which means that cooking will be uneven. really bad design, im not sure why ireviews gives it a 4.5
do not buy, this is a waste of money and makes cooking ha