Last year, Tovala introduced its first smart steam oven, which was specially designed to go with the company's own meal delivery service. Think Blue Apron, but without the hassle of actually knowing how to cook. Just do minimal prep work, pop the rea...
Dominos may have its 30 minutes or less challenge, but imagine getting the perfect pizza pie, fresh out of the oven, in 2 minutes…
That’s the Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo’s promise. Designed to perfectly mimic the heating conditions required for a brick oven, Breville’s Pizzaiolo does all that in a tenth of the space, and right on your kitchen countertop. the Pizzaiolo is a one-of-a-kind device that, in its small frame, can reach temperatures of 750°F and cook perfect wood-fired-style pizzas in just about 2 minutes. Made with brushed stainless steel, this oven is able to replicate the conductive, radiant, and convective heat generated by a brick oven. It features an ‘Element IQ System’ that can replicate the ideal baking environment for different pizza styles (practically everything from New York to frozen pizzas). The natural cordierite stone base provides the perfect heated surface for those crispy, yet melt-in-mouth crusts, and the advanced heating system can cook an entire pizza from scratch in just two minutes. Even instant ramen takes more time!
Arguably an iPhone moment for toasters, the Bruno isn’t three separate appliances, but rather a 3-in-1. Looking nothing like a toaster, or an oven, and probably a little like a grill, the Bruno replaces three appliances with one, and adds a splash of vibrancy and color while doing so.
The Bruno comes as a clamshell appliance with a lid that hinges back when you open it. With heating coils on the base as well as the lid, you can use the Bruno just like an oven (except this opens differently) by even choosing which heating plate you want to activate. A grill plate sits at the middle, holding your meats or vegetables on it as you grill them just like you would on a barbecue grill. Open the lid, fire the lower coil, and you’ve got yourself an impromptu grill that works well with all sorts of food. Close the lid and activate both heating coils and you’ve got a toaster that toasts breads kept horizontally! The Bruno also comes with a removable crumb-tray that makes it easy to keep your 3-in-1 appliance in tip top shape. Choose between a classic white or a snazzy red to spice up your kitchen!
No, this isn’t some twist on the sexist “Go make me a sandwich” statement, because you can now, quite literally tell Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, to make you some popcorn.
Launched at Amazon’s surprise hardware event last week, the Amazon Basics Microwave does two things. As a part of Amazon’s Basics series, it provides a reliable, competitively priced product that’s backed by Amazon’s brand name. It also comes with a dedicated Alexa button, making it probably the first microwave to be powered by Amazon’s AI voice assistant.
Microwaves have, over the years, grown incredibly complicated with a variety of functions that confuse people more than empower them. There’s a separate setting for grilling, for defrosting, etc… and even with these features, a majority of microwave users use the appliance primarily for re-heating food, popping corn, or to cut down on the cooking time of something. Either way, it amounts to just estimating the amount of time the oven needs to run for and the power setting. With Alexa, that estimation gets taken out of the equation as the microwave oven now does the guess-work for you. All you need to do is tell Alexa what to do in the most natural terms, and the advanced AI assistant gets to work, acting on commands like “Alexa microwave popcorn” or “Alexa reheat my rice/vegetables”. Being able to distinguish between food-types now becomes the appliance’s job, and it does so spectacularly. It’ll apply the correct heat setting for microwaving popcorn, versus cooking broccoli, or heating up your coffee, or even baking a mug cake. The microwave does also come with traditional controls, if you’re the technologically independent kind, but I must admit, there’s a certain sense of accomplishment in getting your microwave to cook your food for you by just talking to it!
The thought may seem inconsequential at the very beginning, but talking to your kitchen appliances can help take a lot of the stress out of cooking… and Electrolux and Google are partnering together to let you do just that. The collaboration between the two companies, and the debut of Electrolux’s Combi-Steam ProSmart Oven lets you literally control the oven via voice. Relying on Google’s Home smart speaker and the ‘OK Google’ command, users can tell the oven to switch on or off, select programs, set timers, and even alter temperatures.
Talking to your oven isn’t just a benefit when you’ve got messy hands, or you’re occupied with other cooking, it helps take the guesswork out of the baking process. Simply telling your oven (via the Google Home) that you’d like to prepare pizza, or probably grill vegetables, or bake some bread allows the oven to automatically know which temperature to operate at, as well as what to put on the timer. You can even add or subtract a few degrees, or add or shave off a minute or two from the timer by simply telling the oven to do so… and when your food’s ready but the family isn’t, tell the oven to keep the dish warm, and it automatically sets the temperature to 80°C, keeping your food piping hot, without cooking it further.
Electrolux and Google are even enabling IFTTT integration to allow other devices to connect to the Google Home, letting you shoot text messages out to family members when dinner’s prepared, or blinking the lights in the living room when the pizza’s ready to pull out of the oven… and then as everybody gathers at the table to dig into a perfectly cooked meal, just tell Google to shut the oven down, and that’s one less thing you’ll have to worry about!
Every few years we come across a technology that redefines an industry. The cooking world saw its last revolution with microwaves, but things have been pretty stagnant from thereon… until now. The Brava Oven takes the oven a step further and uses a technology that they call Pure Light cooking. Here’s what it can do. It can instantly reach temperatures of 500°F from room temperature in a single second… and its cooking range is so well-defined, that the Brava Oven can, on one cooking tray, cook three different meals at three separate temperatures!
It sounds almost magical, but the Brava Oven uses a sort of infrared technology to eliminate the need to pre-heat an oven. In literally an instant, the oven can reach any desired temperature and cook the food within. The Brava also comes with a single tray that has three separate zones. The makers claim that their proprietary Pure Light technology can focus the heat within the zones so perfectly, you can cook three different dishes at three different temperatures, at the same time. Imagine being able to make instant meals, from meats to grilled veggies, to toasted buns, all at the same time, in the same oven! Neither do you need extra utensils, nor do you need to waste time pre-heating the oven. Brava claims their technology can cook meats perfectly, getting them to the exact level of sear you want… and since their Pure Light system works in an instant, the cooking can not just start in a jiffy, but can stop at exactly the right time too, making sure your food is never burnt!
The design of Brava reflects the modernity of the technology within it. A pure, clean surface treatment makes it look less like an oven and more avant-garde, like a 3D printer. It even comes with a beautifully textured surface on top that isn’t just alluring to the eye, it also acts as a surface to rest your food before or after cooking. The Brava also comes with a touchscreen interface to control it. You can pretty much decide what cooking techniques you want on your food, and even select cooking styles from the recipes that Brava provides, tailor-made for your oven. Choose a recipe, arrange the ingredients in their zones on the cooking tray, and set the cooking style (as per each zone) on the touchscreen display. The Brava does the rest, making sure each individual element is cooked to absolute perfection, in literally half the time you’d originally take. And once you’re done, all you have to do is wash one baking tray. I could get used to this… I really could.
New York style… Chicago style… California style… everyone has their favorite kind of pizza. I personally like a super-thin and crispy brick oven pizza like the ones they make in Italy. Now, thanks to one enterprising artist, you can have a delicious thin-crust pizza cooked up inside of a car.
Master of absurdist art Benedetto Bufalino took an old Ford Mondeo (aka Ford Fusion here in the states) and converted into an 800 degree wood-burning pizza oven. The artist gutted the interior of the car, and replaced its windows with sheet metal. He built a brick-covered platform inside the vehicle perfect for making delicious pizza in a flash. He simply loads up the back of the old station wagon with wood, sets it ablaze, and gets to cooking.
Sadly, the car no longer drives, but I guess that’s a good thing since this would be a serious hazard on the road. Can you imagine watching flames through the window of the car in front of you and smoke pouring out of its sides? On the other hand, this would make for a pretty awesome food truck… er food car.
This isn’t the first time that Bufalino has done something whimsical with a vehicle. Check out his Instagram page for a swimming pool trailer home, and his upside-down car ping pong table among other things.
LG has officially joined the ranks of appliance makers that support more than one voice assistant. The electronics giant has announced that its current collection of ThinQ-branded appliances now takes commands from both Amazon's Alexa and Google Ass...
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LG has officially joined the ranks of appliance makers that support more than one voice assistant. The electronics giant has announced that its current collection of ThinQ-branded appliances now takes commands from both Amazon's Alexa and Google Ass...
