The Tasty One Top is an induction cook-top made by BuzzFeed that’s controlled with a smartphone app. What? Find out everything you need to know about this unique invention today in our review.
What Is Tasty One Top?
Tasty is a lineup of cooking videos and tutorials made by BuzzFeed. You’ve probably seen them on social media over the past few years. They’re top-down, quick-cutting videos that show you how to make churro ice cream bowls, tropical shrimp and pineapple grilled skewers, and other creative inventions.
Many of the foods featured in BuzzFeed’s Tasty category are made on an induction cooktop. BuzzFeed makes a wide variety of foods, but they almost always share one thing in common: they’re boiled, seared, and sous vide induction cooktop.
And now, thanks to the $149 Tasty One Top, BuzzFeed wants to introduce its induction cook top to the world.
An induction cooktop, by the way, is essentially a miniature stove. It sits on top of your stove. You can use it to keep warm, or to augment the small burners in your basic condo or apartment kitchen.
Using the Tasty app and the Tasty One Top, you can make a diverse range of tasty meals.
How Does Tasty One Top Work?
Tasty One Top is priced at $149. The device calls itself a “precision smart cooktop”. It connects to the Tasty app to help you prepare Tasty recipes.
You know those annoying BuzzFeed articles with titles like, “16 Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich Hacks that Are Borderline Genius” or “35 Italian Recipes that Are Tasty Af”? You can use the Tasty One Top to replicate those recipes using easy-to-follow instructions through the app.
That’s right: BuzzFeed has been secretly advertising the Tasty One Top to the world since long before the product existed.
There are a total of 1,700 Tasty recipes inside the app. The recipes are sorted into different categories – including options like BBQ or “Under 30 Minutes”.
After you pick a recipe, the app will help you cook it through the One Top. The One Top syncs with the step-by-step instructions through the app. It even has built-in sensors letting you know when the time is right to flip your steak or add in vegetables.
If you’re a confident chef, you can cook everything in manual mode. However, you can also set the device to medium rare or medium (when cooking meat) to fine-tune it according to your specifications.
Who Made Tasty One Top?
Typically, you don’t think of BuzzFeed when you think of kitchen gadgets. But that’s exactly which company made the Tasty One Top. Specifically, the product was made by BuzzFeed’s Product Lab, led by Ben Kaufman (yes, BuzzFeed has a Product Lab).
Over the past year, BuzzFeed’s team has been cataloging 1700+ recipes into the app.
How To Use Tasty One Top
- Step 1) Download the Tasty app, where you’ll find 1700+ recipes sorted into a diverse range of categories
- Step 2) Let the One Top cook for you; the device will automatically adjust temperature and power settings to precisely match recipe instructions
- Step 3) Finish cooking and eat; the One Top will track time and temperature as it cooks, which means you’ll get alerts when to flip your food, when to add veggies, and when to plate your food and eat it
Tasty One Top Features
Some of the core features of the cookware include:
Pan, Deep And Stir Fry:
Stuck with a small stove in an apartment or condo? The Tasty One Top lets you fine tune temperature settings to heat your pan faster and more consistently, and help the pan stay at that temperature. This is important for pan frying, deep frying, and stir frying – especially if you’re using a basic stovetop without fine-tuned temperature settings.
Slow Cook:
You can use the Tasty One Top to cook food low and slow with no extra hardware required.
Precision Cooking:
The Tasty One Top has temperature sensors that help you cook your food to the perfect level – so if you want your steak cooked right, you can do that.
Tableside Cooking:
The Tasty One Top can be placed on a table to enjoy share-style meals (like shabu-shabu and fondue) with your friends.
Sous Vide:
The Tasty One Top can hold liquid temperature to within one degree, making it ideal for sous vide cooking.
Multiple Cooking Styles:
With the Tasty One Top, you can sear, simmer, sauté, poach, grill, and experiment with other types of cooking techniques.
Material:
Tasty One Top has a crystal glass surface and a unique, pentagon-shaped design (the design, according to the product’s creators, was designed to make it as Instagram-friendly as possible).
Internal Sensors:
A thermometer tracks the temperature of liquids, fish, and meats in the pot. Meanwhile, integrated surface temperatures track the temperature of your pots and pans.
Buttons:
The device has capacitive touch-control buttons for powering on and off.
Mobile App:
The app has over 1700+ recipes, and will guide you through the entire cooking process. You can adjust temperatures through the app and view the exact moment when your food will be ready. So far, the app is only available for iOS. It’s unclear if BuzzFeed is making an Android version.
Tasty One Top Pricing
The Tasty One Top is priced at $149 USD.
That price comes with free shipping. It’s available in two colors: black or blue. BuzzFeed is shipping its units in November 2017.
Alternatively, you can purchase a Tasty One Top + 4 Piece Premium Induction Cookware Set for $184. That set includes a One Top, thermometer, 11” frying pan, 3 quart sauce pan, 8 quart stock pot, and a stock pot glass lid.
Sales are only available in the United States.
Tasty One Top Tech Specs
The One Top comes with all of the following tech specs:
- Connectivity: Bluetooth LE 4.0
- Power Output: 1500W
- Power Draw: 120 V AC / 12A
- Max Operating Temperature: 450 degrees Fahrenheit
- Mobile Support: iOS (“Android to follow”)
- Controls: Capacitive touch and app controls
Tasty One Top Conclusion
If you’ve seen BuzzFeed’s Tasty videos before, then the Tasty One Top may be of particular interest to you. However, it’s a useful cooking appliance for anyone – especially if you’re interested in sous vide cooking, slow cooking, precision cooking, or other “advanced” cooking techniques. You can also use the Tasty One Top as an ordinary frying pan, deep fryer, sauté pan, or other cooking tool.
Each Tasty One Top is priced at $150. You can purchase the One Top from TastyOneTop.com. Units will ship starting in November 2017.
