This smart kitchen appliance replaces a busy control panel with a single interactive knob to easily weigh your food!

Hoto is a smart kitchen scale for the modern home that scales down its control panel to a single interactive knob and connects other Hoto users from across the world together via an accompanying social media channel.

Smart kitchen appliances have changed the game of cooking. With integrated social media channels, smartphone apps, and haptic sensors, smart technology catapults kitchen appliances into the future. From all-electric coffee brewers with built-in WiFi to Bluetooth-operated smart skillets, the limit does not exist for designers of modern kitchen appliances. Hoto, a smart kitchen scale designed by Lu Zheng, weaves together the best parts of smart technology including accompanied social media channels and interactive control panels.

The best home recipes usually have the most marked instructions, indicating every specificity to the half-ounce. To make sure we get the finished product on par with granny’s, kitchen scales come in handy. Guiding us through the weight of each ingredient, kitchen scales keep tabs on every ingredient in any given recipe and allow us to track what we consume on a daily basis.

Zheng’s smart kitchen scale, Hoto, is minimal by design, adorned with not much more than stainless steel controls and a polished, reflective sheen. The scale scales back on the number of controls and buttons, consolidating every control into one interactive knob that functions as the scale’s, power sensor, weight dial, and net-zero button.

In addition to the appliance’s interactive control switch, Hoto comes with an accompanying social media app that allows other Hoto users to share their recipes and pre-measured weight parameters.

Designer: Lu Zheng

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This smart wok is the kitchen superhero sidekick that automates your work every time you cook!

Quarantine has pushed a lot of us into the routine of cooking all of our own meals, which has been an easier dance to follow for some of us than others. If you enjoy cooking, then falling into the groove of routine meal prep might have been easy enough, but for those who don’t enjoy cooking, finding the inspiration, time, and space, might feel like a chore. Tineco, a smart home appliance company, has designed Food One, a smart wok for the kitchen that makes the process of cooking meals throughout the day a lot more efficient.

Food One was designed for young people living in cities who don’t have either the time or skill set for cooking multiple meals throughout the day. Beginning early 2020, the pandemic’s quarantine orders forced many of us out of restaurant booths and into our kitchens to cook our own meals. Fully integrated with smart technology, Food One operates as a classic smart assistant, with Bluetooth connectivity and app compatibility to connect to your smartphone or other smart devices. After connecting to Food One’s app, users can choose from a long list of available recipes suitable for cooking with the smart wok. Alternatively, those who enjoy cooking can upload their own recipes to Food One’s app for others to learn and follow.

Each unit from Food One features a seasoning compartment above the wok dish where users can toss in the different spices a recipe calls for and let the wok finish the job. Joined together with an attached scale and digital display screen, Food One comes equipped with all the tools necessary for a meal at home that gives your go-to dish from your favorite restaurant a run for its money.

Designer: Tineco

Equipped with an attached scale, digital display screen, seasoning compartment, smart wok, Food One comes with all the tools needed for a meal at home.

Food One was designed for young people living in cities, so maintaining a relatively compact size was a top priority.

Users can activate Food One through its accompanying app that stores recipes and ideas for the kitchen.