I could also get more info from your habits and you home type and quality from the thermostat. All at your convenience. I didn't have to ask for permission to any private information. Just by the oven app alone I would have clues about your personal life-

I would now know about how far you are from home

That you are not home

That there's no one home or that you don't trust the people you live with to start the oven

How much you spend on utilities

What's the average temperature you cook food at

How long you cook

How often you cook

Which part of the oven/stove you use most often

Where your home is located

How often you entertain

Where's your favorite grocery store

When you start cooking

The fact that you are at the grocery buying food to cook that night and how often you do that

What time you usually cook, so the best time to show you other advertisements, or if you’re in the store once super targeted customer by customer pricing gets implemented (it’s already in place in many locations) then the price raises just for you since you turned your oven on (or will turn your oven on in a few minutes).

Would you be comfortable if there were cameras set up in your house feeding to an unknown entity somewhere higher up the economic food chain whose mission is to find ways to extort you for money? Privacy used to be something many people wanted purely for the sake of privacy without any ulterior motive

To me, it’s rather surprising that people don’t just have an instinctual desire to maintain a degree of privacy in their lives. I dont really want people watching and tracking how often I use my air fryer what times I go grocery shopping etc as it literally feels like I’m being spied on. It’s not about having something to hide it’s about protecting something that’s core to the American identity and has been for centuries. Plus these companies are notorious for data breaches and running psychological experiments on people based on personal data collected on them. I’d rather not be a lab rat for some reptilian tech billionaire and I’ll just preheat my oven manually

You can’t think about what this information does right now to your eye. You have to remember that this data is someday going to be completely categorized via AI and same as we couldn’t predict life post-internet, there’s no telling how problematic it might be to your life to have a more robust profile of your personal information than a more private person once AI has fully taken over society. Your life patterns likely tell a lot more about you as a person than you realize which means they are getting way more from you than merely the temperature of your thermostat. Humans are way more patterned in their behavior than our grade school teachers telling us we are unique and special might lead us to believe

The app on your phone is likely data mining you

Easy rule, don't put anything in the oven that doesn't belong in the oven. Plus it is a double oven, so I know the lower is always empty while there might be a cast iron in the top oven.

IDK about smoke detection, but it does shut itself off after a certain amount of time. Years ago I had an ancient GAS oven that I forgot on for THREE DAYS at like 150. I think that was much more dangerous, lol. Those were the best damn pumpkin seeds I ever made though.