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I would never ever dare to preheat remotely (and having an open Internet connection that has the potential to allow that would be a nightmare for me).

My current owen actually forces me to at least open once the hatch before allowing it to be switched on (I guess that it's to force me to check if anything was previously left inside).

My wife and I both work from home and a lot of times have meetings up until 5. It would be nice to be able to start the oven so I could get my kids food into a preheated oven right at 5.

Being able to turn on cooking appliances remotely couldn't possibly go wrong[0].

/sarcasm

[0]https://www.nfpa.org/Public-Education/Fire-causes-and-risks/...

Agreed, the only useful connected functions I can imagine are "isOvenOn?" and "turnOvenOff" but even then I would be nervous about relying on either...

Who preheats a microwave oven?

It's a combination microwave/convection oven.

Also voice controls, although these days you should be able to do that on the device.