I don't understand this thing. So it cooks with "light", Don't all electric toasters cook with light (IR)?
It appears that this Brava oven uses halogen light bulbs as the heat source. Do you remember that the instruction for handling halogen bulbs is never touch with your fingers. The grease on your fingers can carbonize on the quartz envelop and cause the bulb to self-destruct. What would happen with all the grease splatter on the Brava's heating halogen bulbs?
Using intense IR may get the outside of food charred faster, (that's how a broiler works) but the heat can't travel any faster to the interior of food. So you will end up with cooked exterior, raw uncooked interior, just like what they show in one of the pictures.
What about dark colored food will cook faster?
The CTO of Brava says, "---One, it's just far more powerful, and two, it's far more precise in controlling the elements."
No, sorry, it is no more powerful than all the other electric ovens, 15 Amps.
No, sure, controlling the heating elements is good, but controlling the temperature of food is what cooks want.
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