Tovala Family Meals Review: Good Food, Lots of Salt
Key takeaways
- WIREDA smart oven offers fresh-cooked, scannable-recipe meals with nearly no prep time.
- You get a box in the mail with a full complement of ingredients, boxed up individually alongside vacuum-packed proteins.
- The only cooking implement you will need to prep your food is a pair of scissors to open the little bags.
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WIREDA smart oven offers fresh-cooked, scannable-recipe meals with nearly no prep time. Family meals pack four hefty servings into a tiny oven. The oven is a good oven even without the meal plan.TIREDSodium and fat can reach stratospheric levels. International meals are not faithful, nor successful. You have to buy the oven to eat the food.Tovala is a meal-delivery service. It is also an oven. And in some ways, it also feels like a very specific vision of the future. Tovala is not quite a robot chef, exactly. But it's not not a robot chef, either. It's a robot chef as imagined in old science fiction, or an episode of Wallace and Gromit.
The idea behind Tovala is simple. You get a box in the mail with a full complement of ingredients, boxed up individually alongside vacuum-packed proteins. Here is your Parmesan-Crusted Chicken Breast with Cheesy Stuffed Shells and Garlic Bread. Or here is your Togarashi Chicken Breast and Sweet Soy Noodles.