The app will also tell you when the cooking session has ended. You can be in another part of the house and still be able to check in on your food. How cool is that? But it gets even better because the Brava mobile app also shows you a view from the camera inside the oven.īeing able to see what’s going on in the oven from the app means that you don’t have to be in the kitchen while it’s cooking. If everything looks good, you press the button, and cooking starts! The status LED around the button turns red to let you know that it’s cooking but you’ll also see a live view on the display because… Brava even has a built-in camera! It tells me to put the tray on the top shelf… I was presented with quite a few options.īrava tells you exactly what to do step by step. Sausage links! So I used the search feature and used the touchscreen to type sausage in the search field. I picked something very easy for my first test of the Brava. There is also an option to see recent recipes, favorites, and search. The menu is two pages long and lets you choose from options like cook, sear, toast, bake, reheat, slow cook, warmer, and more. Once everything is updated, you’ll see the main menu that is shown above.
It will then prompt to update the firmware if needed. The first thing you do after you unbox the Brava and plug it in is to follow the onscreen prompts to connect it to the internet. So let’s do that now! Enough talking, let’s get cooking! The zones will make more sense when you start cooking. The ceramic coated aluminum tray has the same three zones. As you can see above, the glass tray has three sections or as Brava calls them, zones. Mine came with a glass tray and two ceramic coated aluminum trays. This guard protects the tempsensor’s lead from the extreme temps inside the oven.ĭepending on the package, the Brava oven comes with different cooking trays or pans. You can also see a metal guard/plate above the tempsensor connection slot. Here we see the tempsensor plugged in and ready to be used. It looks kind of like a USB plug but it’s not ? The tempsensor plugs into the slot on the left side of the oven. The tip of the tempsensor has marks that allow it to double as a measuring device so that you can input the thickness of the protein into the cook specs to let Brava figure out how long and how hot to cook the food. Each light corresponds to the cooking zone so that the oven can cook completely different foods on the same tray.īrava includes a digital tempsensor that ensures that your foods (proteins) are cooked to your exact preference – rare, medium rare, medium well, well done. There are three long halogen light bulbs on the bottom of the oven and three more on the top/roof of the oven. The interior of the Brava oven is all stainless steel and has a lower and upper slot for the included trays. There’s also the touchscreen user interface and the control button along the front edge of the oven but more about them later. The Brava oven has the footprint of a small microwave and is designed to sit on your kitchen counter and it plugs into a standard 3-prong outlet. Processor – Quad-core ARM Cortex A53 processor with Mali T400-MP2 GPUĭisplay – Multi-Touch with IPS technologyĥ.0-inch (diagonal) TFT-LCD display, 854×480 native resolution with up to 16.7M colorsĬonnectivity – Integrated Wi-Fi supporting IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n 2.4GHz/5GHĬamera – 5 megapixel, ultra wide angle Design and features
Heating Element – 270mm crystal bulb, Full power in <1 second Hardware specsĭimensions – Height: 11.3 inches (28.8 cm) x Width: 16.4 inches (41.6 cm) x Length: 17.3 inches (44.0 cm) This is the configuration that was sent to me for review which is the Starter Set with an additional Egg Tray. Note that you can buy different packages of the Brava which come with different trays. It can effectively replace your oven, air fryer, dehydrator, slow cooker, and microwave. It also has built-in recipes and instructions that will lead you by the hand (spoon?) to bake, cook, air fry, dehydrate, and reheat your leftovers. Brava is a smart cooking device that uses high-powered light bulbs to cook a whole meal on one tray even if they are entirely different types of foods like meat and vegetables.