Mike talks with Chris Young, CEO of ChefSteps on this episode.
Chris and ChefSteps just announced a price drop and is giving a million bucks back to the backers of the Joule. Mike asks him why.
You can learn about ChefSteps at www.chefsteps.com
Podcasts
From The White House to Smart Kitchen Startup With Sam Kass
How does one go from being an aspiring baseball player to being the personal chef of the President to working in the smart kitchen space? That’s something only Sam Kass could tell us.
We talk to Sam about:
– how he became a chef
-how he started working for the Obama family
–planting the first functional vegetable garden at the White House in almost a century and how
-how he became interested in foodtech
-what he sees for the future of Innit and the connected kitchen
You can find out more about Sam and Innit at www.innit.com
Making Sous Vide Mass Market With Steve Svajian of Anova
In this episode, Mike Wolf talks with Anova Culinary CEO Steve Svajian about the Anova story and the evolution of consumer sous vide cooking.
You can find out more about Anova at anovaculinary.com/
Bringing Connected Kitchen Products to Market With GE’s FirstBuild
It used to take years for GE to bring a new product to market. With FirstBuild, their innovation community/incubator/maker space, they’re compressing the development cycle to months. FirstBuild is helping GE conceptualize and productize for new ideas in the kitchen and beyond, and it’s also helping them enter test market viability through new mechanisms such as crowdfunding.
In this podcast, Mike talks with Taylor Dawson, the lead evangelist for FirstBuild.
You can find out more about FirstBuild at www.firstbuild.com
Hotrodding The World’s Coolest Coffee Grinder with GIR’s Sam Rose
Sam Rose started her business by making really great spatulas, but eventually she decided to make what she describes as the most “hot-rodded coffee grinder” she could possibly think of. With that, the Voltaire was born.
We talk about her journey on this episode of the Smart Kitchen Show.
You can find out more about GIR at www.gir.co
The future of cooking with Darren Vengroff
This episode of the Smart Kitchen Show features the Chief Scientist for Hestan Cue, the division of cookware giant Meyer creating a next-generation smart cooking product called the Hestan Cue.
Darren and Mike discuss the early days of sous vide, the evolution of precision cooking, the emergence of a new appliance category called guided cooking systems and much more. If you’re interested in the future of cooking, this is a good episode to check out.
You can find out more about Hestan Cue at www.hestancue.com
Podcast: Meet Juicero, the $700 ‘Keurig For Home Juice’
In this podcast we talk to Doug Evans on the day his startup, Juicero, come out of stealth.
Juicero is a company that makes a $700 cold press juicer for the home, as well as complete home delivery system with subscriptions for juice packs that will essentially create a Keurig for juice.
Hear the story of Doug decided to start Juicero and where he sees it going in the future.
Find Juicero at www.juicero.com
Podcast: From Cars to Precision Cooking: The Story of Cinder
A decade ago, Eric Norman was working on product design at Toyota headquarters in Japan. Now, he’s taken his love of cuisine and food and is applying much of what he learned creating big metal boxes to cart us around to helping create the next generation of cooking devices.
You can find out more about Cinder at www.cindercooks.com
Podcast: Nom Nom Nom
In this special episode, you’ll hear the first interview ever conducted by YouTube cofounder Steve Chen and Vijay Karunamurthy about their new Nom food storytelling community. Nom launched today, but in this episode recorded two weeks ago Chen and Karunamurthy go in depth about how they got the idea for Nom.
You can visit Nom by going to www.nom.com
Smart Kitchen Chat: What Happened In Smart Kitchen At CES 2016
We’ve got more smart kitchen stories coming soon, but in the mean time we wanted to share a chat about what Mike and friend Brian Frank saw at CES 2016 in the connected kitchen.
For 2016, we plan to have more storytelling podcast episodes as well as throw in some conversation episodes as well as interviews with innovators in the smart kitchen space. Stay tuned!
Go to www.smartkitchensummit.com/show to hear this and all the other episodes.
News Show: Food Service Robots & The Meat Juice Problem
Mike and Ashley catch up on the foodtech and connected kitchen news, including:
-3D food printer ChefJet is still alive
-A performance art piece posing as 3D printer food restaurant in London
-Food service robots are going to take your food service job
-Food delivery startup gets $ for being fresh
-Plus updates on the Smart Kitchen Summit!
Interview: How To Design A Connected Kitchen Product With Jon Mann
In another special edition – we talk to Jon Mann of design firm Artefact about how to design a smart kitchen product and make life better at the same time.
More Smart Kitchen Shows at: www.smartkitchensummit.com/show/
