Upgrade Spotlight: Cook Faster, Easier & Better With Light – Brava : 964
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...
... you’re going to find out how to cook differently using an innovative kitchen appliance, Brava, that’s got some cool features that will get you excited about making your meals at home—always a good idea!
First—what Brava is not. The Brava countertop cooking oven isn’t a microwave, isn’t a toaster oven, and isn’t a convection oven.
Instead, it’s a device that cooks with light. Six lamps deliver exact, variable, infrared light waves to your food. Brava synchronizes and controls the amount of power each lamp emits. Simultaneously, the lamps instantly reach full power and turn off just as quickly, creating three independent cooking zones inside the chamber.
The top five benefits of this cooking method include: Searing (great for your grass-fed steaks), precision, versatility, speed and quality. Brava also cooks up to three different ingredients at the same time. You can air fry, dehydrate and cook your favorite white rice in it (Bulletproof Diet approved). It’s user- and kid-friendly, so your whole family can be part of a lifestyle that prioritizes food that nourishes your body and ups your energy.
Brava’s vice president and professional chef, Travis Rea, led the Brava Culinary Team in developing Brava's patented Pure Light Technology (physicists and mathematicians were in on it, too). He’s on the show to explain the technology behind Brava and how cooking with light will change your entire approach to food.
Travis earned a degree in Culinary Arts at the California Culinary Academy. Prior to Brava, he headed the Food Development team at Williams-Sonoma for eight years where he developed nearly 800 private label food products. His experience also includes leadership roles at Revolution Foods and NatureBox. So, he knows the many facets of creating great food.
Brava takes out the guesswork of meal planning by offering over 7,000 fully automated recipe programs. This means you can enjoy cooking more because it takes less of your time.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR LISTENERS OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE: https://www.brava.com, use code DAVE at checkout to get $200 OFF any Brava set through December 31, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:04.2 | Formerly, bulletproof radio. |
| 0:09.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:19.8 | Today is a special spotlight edition where I talk about something you probably haven't |
| 0:27.0 | heard about. You do some kind of new tech or new something. We're going to talk about |
| 0:31.3 | a new way of cooking and it's cooking with light. The idea here is you're going to learn |
| 0:36.9 | how to save yourself time, perform better or just do something better than you did before. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm shockingly impressed to put it real bluntly with what I'm seeing from cooking with light |
| 0:51.3 | and a bunch of other cool tech. That's why I've asked the head executive from Brava, his |
| 0:58.0 | name is Travis Ray, to join us and talk about what cooking with light is this the next microwave. |
| 1:03.0 | The answer is no, it's way better than microwave. He's got a degree in culinary arts from |
| 1:07.4 | California Culinary Academy and he is a professional chef and he led the culinary team who developed |
| 1:14.6 | this pure light technology for cooking. This is a real chef who developed this really |
| 1:19.7 | high tech digitally controlled. As a fellow food hacker, I'm just having a blast with my |
| 1:27.7 | Brava. I wanted to talk with them about it. Travis, welcome. |
| 1:32.5 | Thanks for having me Dave. It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:35.9 | You're a chef. You've got a white chef shirt and you probably have a chef hat somewhere |
| 1:40.5 | in a drawer there that you're not wearing because it looked funny with headphones. You're |
| 1:45.6 | a well-trained chef. I have a fully disclosed fetish for molecular gastronomy or the idea |
| 1:54.7 | of applying laboratory grade techniques to cooking so that you can make food do very precise |
| 1:59.5 | things. The former CTO of Microsoft popularized this almost 20 years ago, the name is Nathan |
| 2:05.5 | Mervold. I've had laboratory grade temperature controllers and stuff in my kitchen and some |
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