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In a study published by the Harvard Business Review, only 10% of Americans claim they love cooking. Are you a part of that percentage? Whether you feel you don't have time to cook during the week or aren't confident your culinary skills can match TV celebrity chefs, getting in the kitchen to cook most nights of the week can provide health benefits and save you thousands in the long run.

If you’ve thought about cooking more, but are struggling to get into it—we’ve got a few tips.

Try Something New

It’s easy to get stuck in the same eating cycles or habits. Many of us have a few go-to meals that we prepare, and we just cycle through them throughout the week. As a way to mix it up, you might find that eating out or ordering take out has become your go-to option. It doesn’t have to be this way. With just a little extra time spent researching or browsing the web,you can find thousands of recipes to spice up your weeknight meals, excite you to get in the kitchen, and flex your culinary muscles.

Step Into the Future

You don’t need to upgrade all of your appliances to fall in love with cooking, but adding a few high-tech tools to your kitchen can help inspire you and help you cook more efficiently. Kitchen tools and appliances that have made their way from pro kitchens to homes include the coveted sous vide and the smart oven. A sous vide device, for instance, can help you slow cook proteins to perfection, enabling you to prepare medium-rare steaks with ease.

Smart ovens are an excellent option for cooking side dishes or even full meals while speeding up the cooking process. You’ll find that the best smart oven will utilize innovative light technology and advanced settings to help cook your proteins, vegetables, and starches to the right temperatures all at once. The most versatile among them should also be able to toast, bake, and even reheat food faster and with more precision than traditional means. The Brava Oven, for instance, offers this functionality and hundreds of chef-crafted recipes that are easy to sync with the smart oven, saving you time and providing inspiration.

Explore Convenience Options

Shopping at the grocery store can be time-consuming during the week. Fortunately, meal kit services have made it more convenient than ever to cook from home. And if it’s a convenience that will get you in the kitchen, go for it!But if you’d rather not get locked into a meal kit subscription, look into flexible meal kit services that work in conjunction with your smart countertop oven and that don’t lock you into a weekly plan. With the recipes pre-programmed into the oven, all you need to do is press a button and your restaurant-quality, home-cooked meal is on its way.

Just Start

Even if you have a stocked fridge and dozens of recipes locked and loaded, the only way to build the habit of cooking every day is to step in the kitchen, fire up your smart countertop oven, and get cooking. With the right tools and the right mindset, you can prepare healthy and delicious meals from the comfort of your own home and even have fun, while letting your creativity flow. Once you establish the habit and find the tools that will help you save time in the kitchen, getting in there to make dinner or prep lunch for the next workday becomes automatic.

About Brava

Brava wants to make home your favorite place to eat, and their revolutionary smart oven is doing just that as people are now cooking restaurant-quality meals in little time. The Brava Oven features innovative Pure Light Cooking™ Technology and advanced settings to cook your proteins, starches, and vegetables to perfection all at once. While providing your optimal level of doneness, the oven can even produce a perfect sear without overcooking the inside of your steak. The Brava Oven is the perfect complement to your kitchen and can toast, bake, and reheat food quickly and more precisely than traditional means.

Learn more about the Brava Oven and find culinary inspiration at Brava.com

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At the start of every year, many people create a list of New Year’s resolutions and goals that they want to achieve. At the top of many of our lists is to eat healthier and get back in shape. Eating healthier seems easy when you’re making the list, but once the pan hits the burner, things can change.

Eating healthy can get a bad rap from many people. They think that it's expensive, takes a ton of effort, and that the food tastes bland. In reality, eating healthy can be super simple, and the food can be incredibly tasty if you prepare it the right way. Here are a few tips to help start 2019 off right and form some healthy eating habits you'll keep yearlong and for every year after.

Make Meals You Want to Eat

The first myth is that healthy food doesn’t taste good. The reality is, any food, whether it’s healthy or not, can taste bland or unappealing if it isn’t prepared right or if you simply don’t like the ingredients. To build the habit of eating healthy for most of your meals, you should seek out recipes and ingredients that appeal to you. Even habitually unhealthy eaters can make the switch if they know what to look for. Consider what you like in your favorite foods and find healthy alternatives to cook in your smart countertop oven. Seek out one that also comes with a companion app full of chef-inspired recipes,so you stay excited, healthy, and inspired when it comes to your meals. The best smart ovens will even allow you to save your favorite recipes directly to the oven, making cooking a healthy meal easier than ever.

Upgrade Your Kitchen Tech

Eating healthy doesn’t have to take a lot of time when you have the right appliances. Consider upgrading your kitchen by adding a smart oven to your countertop. The best smart ovens will use efficient technology to cook with light to speed up the cooking process without compromising any of the flavors of your meal. Seek out a smart oven that is flexible and can adapt to your lifestyle, meaning it’s there for you whether you want to reheat leftovers, cook up veggies, or get the perfect sear on your steak.

Say No to Drive-Thru

Convenience is a huge factor that drives people to the drive-thru or to order take-out from other restaurants. Cooking at home can feel like a hassle for many people,especially during the weeknights, but if you're committed to eating healthier, with your new favorite recipes in hand, you can make it happen if you plan ahead and stay on course.

Even if you choose to eat out and order a salad or grilled chicken wrap, you could make a similar meal with fresher ingredients at home and save money too. Especially if you can prep your proteins ahead of time, reheating them in your smart oven will help preserve the juicy tenderness while giving it a nice crust if you desire. Even if you’re unable to prep, a smart oven will help as it cooks food faster and some models even have a shorter preheat than an oven, so you can toast, bake, or reheat quicker and more accurately than more traditional means. This all means you save time, money, and your waistline while enjoying a healthy, home-cooked meal at home.

One-Time Meal Kits

Typically, people go through the drive-thru or order in because they feel they don’t have the time to make an exciting, healthy meal. But in the day and age of meal kits and meal subscription services, that’s no longer an excuse. However, it makes sense that you might not want to get locked into a monthly meal plan you’re not sure about, which is part of what makes one-time meal kits so exciting: You get what you want, when you want, without having to get locked into a plan. By purchasing a one-time meal kit online you’ll save time when it comes to shopping, prepping, and clean-up, which makes eating healthy at home even more convenient.Some smart ovens also offer one-time meal kits that the oven knows how to cook, so you’re just a few easy clicks away from a delicious, healthy meal.

Get the Family Involved

Another significant obstacle for many people is eating separate meals than what they prepare for the family. An easy way to overcome this is to get the whole family involved in the meal planning and cooking for that evening or for the week. With your tasty recipes in hand and expert cooking skills, you can start preparing healthy meals with your family that everyone will love. Have your family share the responsibility of picking out recipes and ingredients, as well as prepping and cooking. Though you might still need to make some alterations to your plate depending on the nutrition plan you're following, this will help make everyone invested and interested in what’s for dinner.

About Brava

Brava is evolving the way we cook healthy meals. The Brava Oven is a smart countertop oven that utilizes innovative Pure Light Cooking™ Technology that harnesses the power of light to cook multiple ingredients to the perfect temperature. From proteins like chicken, steak, and fish, to vegetables and starches, the Brava Oven can handle it all in less time than more traditional means. The companion app from Brava pairs with the smart oven and comes with over 140 chef-inspired recipes available with the tap of a button. The Brava Marketplace offers one-time meal kits, high-quality proteins, and hard-to-find stand-alone ingredients.

To learn more about the Brava Oven, visit Brava.com

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While the holiday season is often referred to as “the most wonderful time of the year," if you've ever planned or hosted a holiday dinner, you know it can be a stressful endeavor. How did your grandma make it look so easy when you were a kid? Well, she had experience, practice, and loads of patience. But with modern kitchen tools and appliances, along with the endless resources a quality recipe app can bring, there’s no reason you can’t breeze through your holiday meal with pro-level fare your guests will remember well into the new year. Here are some tips to help prep and prepare a delicious holiday meal.

Timing is Everything

The first step to creating the most memorable holiday meal is to know your capabilities. How much time will you have to prepare? What dishes do you have experience making? Not everyone will get the time off work to pre-plan everything, so to avoid any unnecessary stress in the kitchen, limit the sides and entrees to what you can realistically make.

Next, you should consider how long things take to prep and cook. The prime rib will take a few hours to cook in a conventional oven, so you'll need to plan ahead. A cooking timeline is helpful to make sure everything goes in the oven and is prepped according to plan to ensure that everything is warm and ready when it's time to serve.

In many cases, you might find that you don’t have enough oven space to accommodate each dish, or that you have a variety of things that all need to be cooked at different temperatures and for varying times. For cases like these (and many others), a smart countertop oven is a convenient appliance to have in your kitchen. That way, you can cook the green bean casserole in the countertop oven while the roast cooks low and slow in the conventional oven at the same time. Though the best smart countertop ovens will also have the capability to cook many different sides at once, all at varying temperatures—which is especially useful around the holidays.

Create a Well-Balanced Menu

Every pro chef knows that the perfect meal is a balancing act. Think of each plate like a painter’s palette with different colors and tastes that mesh and work well together. Even if you’re more of a meat and potatoes kind of person, your guests will appreciate some variety. Take a census of what everyone's favorite foods are and if guests have specific dietary preferences and needs, be flexible so everyone has a dish they'll love.

Cook Smarter Not Harder

While your grandmother somehow managed with just the family recipes, an oven, and a stovetop, there are plenty of options available to you to help make holiday cooking a breeze. Most notably, a smart oven like the Brava Oven, which sits on your counter and can help you cook multiple side dishes at once using Pure Light Cooking™ Technology. This smart countertop oven also includes a companion app with 140-plus chef-inspired recipes. The Brava App connects to the smart oven, and with the press of a button, will send your favorite recipes straight to the Brava Oven. And, you can watch your food cook right from the app!

Save Time on Shopping

With busy and hectic careers, finding the time to go grocery shopping can be a challenge. Especially around the holiday season, the grocery stores are usually crowded with people shopping for the same things. If you want to eliminate this stress, you can look into ordering a one-time meal kit with everything you need to create delicious dishes in your smart countertop oven. Or, think about ordering just your proteins from the Brava Marketplace, which features high-quality, hard-to-find proteins from some of the best purveyors in the States. This way, you have everything you need prepped and ready in one package, and you won't need to worry about battling the crowds at the supermarket. Fortunately, this is another service Brava provides online in the Brava Marketplace, which can also be ordered directly from the Brava App.

About Brava

Cooking has evolved, and the Brava Oven is the convenient and simple way to cook chef-inspired meals at home. The smart countertop oven uses innovative Pure Light Cooking™ Technology that cooks multiple ingredients to the perfect temperature all at once. This technology makes it not only easy to cook delicious, healthy meals at home, but also takes the guesswork out of cooking. The Brava App works in conjunction with the Brava Oven and offers users over 140 chef-inspired meals and recipes ready to cook at the tap of a button. Not sure what to cook? Browse the through the app or the Brava Marketplace online to order one-time meal kits without a subscription.

Discover the endless culinary possibilities of the Brava Oven at Brava.com

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A Smart Oven from Brava Helps You Cook Faster

Brava’s smart oven is highly efficient and flexible. The Brava Oven can toast, bake, and heat up food faster and more precisely than traditional means, and requires no time to preheat. Moreover, the Brava App offers 50-plus different recipes (and growing) so you can prepare chef-inspired meals with ease using the Brava Oven.

Learn more at https://www.brava.com/

The holiday season is officially upon us, which can only mean one thing: Holiday parties are right around the corner. Whether you’re making holiday appetizers or sides for Thanksgiving dinner, joining family for Christmas brunch or breakfast, or organizing a festive potluck, you likely have meal preparation on your mind.

Unfortunately, we don’t get time off of work to plan for a celebratory party, and we definitely don’t get extra time in the day to prep for a big holiday meal. So, if you’re like most people, you might be earmarking time in your schedule to go grocery shopping, prep ingredients, and time each dish, so everything comes out on time. Even if you’re not hosting, holiday side dishes can take just as much planning.

Fortunately, there are many ways you can save time when planning your holiday meal and still deliver chef-level dishes. Time-saving appliances like a smart countertop oven can help you cook whatever holiday dishes you desire, creating5-star dishes that only taste like they took all day to prepare.

Brava uses patented Pure Light Cooking™ Technology to help you make delicious, homemade food that is certain to impress at any holiday gathering. Their Brava Oven is a multifunctional smart oven that toasts, sears, and bakes (the latter with just a brief preheat), providing you with valuable time savings while creating chef-level dishes.

Brava’s multi-zone cooking removes the hassle and stress of waiting for one dish to cook while the other one is set aside, waiting. Instead, Brava’s Pure Light Cooking™ Technology and Temp Sensor offer precise, controlled cooking for each dish at once, on the same tray.

Whether you’re cooking fish, vegetables, starches, or meat, the right smart oven can take the work out of holiday preparation. Follow this guide to learn how to prepare chef-inspired dishes that are certain to please everyone this holiday season.

Proteins

Proteins are a fixture at any holiday gathering, and it’s not always the turkey or ham. If you’re looking for a fun new holiday recipe while also saving time, a smart oven might be your answer. Whether you’re mulling over breakfast sausage for Christmas morning, chicken wings for the mid-morning football game, or salmon fillet for a decadent dish, you can use Brava’s single ingredient settings to prepare and enjoy your dish.

For best results, make sure your protein matches the height and size as displayed on the smart oven’s touch screen, pat each piece down with a paper towel, and cook foods straight from the fridge. The best parts: You don’t need to use oil when cooking most proteins, making clean up a breeze—and the Brava Oven requires no time to preheat, providing even more time savings.

Vegetables and Fruit

Asparagus, brussels sprouts, butternut squash, potatoes, and baby broccoli are fan favorites at any dinner, but they make especially good sides at a holiday party. The same goes for sweet pears or baked apples.

If you’re planning a decadent vegetable or fruit side, be sure to cut your produce the same size and select your desired setting on Brava’s smart oven to enjoy a chef-inspired dish within minutes. You can use a basic ingredient setting on the Brava Oven for each holiday dish to ensure each is cooked to its desired level of doneness and comes out exactly as you expect.

About Brava

The Brava Oven is changing the way we cook at home. With proprietary Pure Light Cooking™ Technology and six lamps for precise cooking, the Brava Oven can cook up to three different food groups at separate temperatures at the same time. With the Brava Oven, healthy, tasty, home-cooked meals are possible in an estimated 20 to 30 minutes. If you need inspiration, the Brava App offers 60-plus chef-inspired recipes for quick, healthy, and delicious meals any day of the week.

Find out more about the Brava Oven at Brava.com

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Brava has designed a revolutionary countertop oven that is twice as fast as conventional ovens. Their high-tech countertop oven lets you cook up to the three different ingredients at the same time, each at a different temperature, making it great for brunch, Sunday dinner, mid-week leftovers and everything in-between.

Find out more at https://www.brava.com/

These days, most of us feel pinched for time. Whether we really do have less time (e.g., demanding work schedule, long commute, family obligations, extra curriculars, etc.), or we just feel busier—a phenomenon known as the perennial time-scarcity problem—it never hurts to explore ways to free up a few extra hours.

One of the easiest ways to save time is by enlisting the help of high-quality kitchen appliances. Tools such as the few highlighted below will help take the time (and work) out of prepping and cooking, freeing up some time in your day while still giving you that delicious, home-cooked meal.

A Sous Vide

Sous vide is a method of cooking that involves sealing food in plastic pouches or glass containers before immersing it in water heated with a sous vide appliance. This method of cooking is known to keep food moist and seal in flavor while evenly cooking ingredients. It cooks food low and slow and can also be used to bulk prepare food ahead of time, which can be a helpful time-saving measure during a busy week.

A Knife Sharpener

One of the most labor- and time-intensive aspects of cooking is the process of chopping and slicing ingredients. Outside of purchasing prepared meals or frozen or pre-chopped ingredients, you’re stuck doing the work yourself. Fortunately, a dependable knife sharpener can keep your blades sharp and effective so you can cut and prep the ingredients you need quickly without wasting time with a dull blade. Keeping knives sharp will help you slice and cut potatoes, cheese, cucumbers, carrots, and more efficiently. A sharp blade is especially important when you’re cutting up trickier ingredients such as chocolate or herbs. You’ll find that home-cooked meals are easier to prep for and fresher than ever when you’re utilizing a knife sharpener to ensure you can cut and prep your ingredients faster and with more precision.

A Smart Oven

Capable of handling anything you’d throw at a traditional oven, microwave, or toaster oven, a smart oven is the high-tech gadget you need to help you save time in the kitchen. Smart ovens are often compact and can be connected to apps to help you cook up quick, healthy meals in less time and often in a more efficient manner than traditional devices. The best countertop oven will have the capacity to toast, reheat, and bake entire meals in a matter of minutes.

Brava has created a smart oven that is designed to save you time while helping you create healthy, wholesome meals any day of the week. The Brava Oven is a multi functional smart oven that toasts, reheats, and bakes without needing to preheat, providing you with valuable time savings. Whether it’s a mid-week meal or Sunday brunch, with their Pure Light Cooking™ Technology, the Brava Oven can cook up to three different foods, including proteins and vegetables, at the same time in under 20 minutes, all on one tray. Brava’s powerful counter top oven removes the hassle of waiting for one component of your meal to cook while the other one waits, allowing you to enjoy a fresh and balanced meal all at once. Brava’s Pure Light Cooking™ Technology offers precise, controlled cooking, and allows you to set your desired temperature and doneness, from medium rare to heavily seared. A Brava Oven is a valuable addition to your kitchen that will speed up the cooking process without compromising any of the flavor.

About Brava

The Brava Oven is a smart oven that was designed with precision, taste, and convenience in mind. It utilizes Pure Light Cooking™ Technology and six lamps to allow you to cook up to three different ingredients at separate temperatures at the same time. With the Brava Oven, healthy, tasty, home-cooked meals can be created in a fraction of the time. The Brava App serves up 60-plus chef-inspired recipes—save your favorites directly to the Brava Oven for quick, healthy meals any day of the week.

Find out more about the Brava Oven at Brava.com

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