My daughter put a pizza into the Amazon Alexa Enabled oven/microwave. You can probably guess where this is going. She’s done this many many times, put it on the metal rack, and let me know it was good to go.
I opened the Alexa app on my phone and said, very precisely (I saved the log) “Alexa, bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes on first oven”. Alexa interpreted this as “Alexa, fig at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes on first oven”. A Alexa interpreted “fig” as “microwave”, and proceeded to set the microwave/oven full of metal cookware to microwave for 30 minutes.
For some reason I thought being extremely precise and including degrees and things that would only make sense if you wanted to bake, or the fact that I have never microwaved something for that length of time, would inform Alexa and keep this from happening.
Around 21 minutes later my wife smelled something, as we were upstairs, and we had to open all the windows and leave a few hours early for our relatives house. Thank goodness we weren’t hosting.
Anyway that’s the last time I’ll use smart appliances like microwaves.