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The Cozytime LUMO just wrapped up their successful Kickstarter, raising $440k against a goal of $5k. The LUMO is an indoor grill that uses infrared heating to cook, has the ability to smoke (somewhat), and has some other neat features.
As with all new things in 2026, it also is powered by AI. There is an onboard camera that detects what you’re cooking to adjust things like temperature and time for the perfect cook. It also connects with your phone for recipes and alerts.
They achieve the grilled flavor their after by drippings from the cooking meat hitting a metal plate underneath the cooking grates and steaming back up. You can also load a small amount of wood chips into the grill to add some smoke flavor. I don’t see any built-in filtration, so I don’t think you can truly smoke with it, the chips are more for a little flavor.
I like what they did with the body of the grill because you can open up the clam shell completely and grill on two different surfaces for added space. The grill can get to 518 degrees F, and it carries retail price of $499.
Tough Landscape
The LUMO, and other devices like it, face an uphill battle to make it. There have been many smart ovens and indoor cookers along the way that haven’t had a long shelf life.
There was a rush of them that took off right before Covid and dealt with the same rollercoaster as grill companies. Before Middleby bought Char-Griller, Kamado Joe, and Masterbuilt, they bought the indoor smart oven company, Brava.
It was part of their Residential business, and it never really took off. They sold Brava with the rest of Residential earlier this year to 26North, and they subsequently killed the brand.
The once popular June Oven brand suffered a similar fate. Weber bought them for $142.2 million in 2021 at the peak of the Covid-fueled cooking craze.
Much like Brava, June suffered from lagging sales after Covid. Weber eventually closed the brand in 2024 as they refocused their own brand.
The most recent device that had some overlap is the GE Profile Indoor Smoker. It’s a neat indoor smoker that has a filtration system to keep your house from smelling like smoke, whether that’s good or bad.
We’ll see if that device has any staying power. It was released with some marketing behind it, given that it’s part of GE, but I haven’t seen any hype around the device since its release despite cutting its price.