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Category: Connected Kitchen

  • Aug 28, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Smart Home

    Knock-Knock. Who’s There? LG’s New InstaView Oven with Air Fryer Now Available

    I don’t want my current refrigerator to break, but if it should happen to accidentally fall out of a second story window, I know what I’ll replace it with: The LG InstaView fridge. The InstaView fridge comes equipped with knock-on technology that lets you see what’s inside by knocking on its surface, without ever having…

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  • Aug 18, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Foodtech, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Anova’s New Connected Steam + Convection Oven Now Selling for $599

    Anova announced the launch of its connected, countertop steam + convection oven today. The Anova Precision Oven is a wifi-enabled, multi-stage combi oven can now be purchased worldwide for $599. Anova, which is owned by Electrolux, made its mark in food tech with its consumer sous vide circulator, which helped kick off a consumer sous…

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  • Aug 12, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Future of Drink, Podcasts

    The Food Tech Show: An Almost All Coffee Pod: Spinn, Coffee Robots & Atomo

    The Spoon team has a heavily caffeinated conversation for this week’s podcast. Here are the stories we discuss: With traffic down due to the pandemic, Cafe X shuts down its airport robot baristas Atomo coffee raises $9 million for ‘molecular’ coffee Another week, another ghost kitchen funding Are mobile menus the next big application for…

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  • Aug 5, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Deep Dives, Next-Gen Cooking, Spoon Plus

    StoreBound’s Evan Dash Wants to Create a Housewares Brand for a New Generation

    “Breville was doing incredibly well,” said Dash. “They were still fairly new. And a lot of brands were chasing them to the high end. And then you had this whole like lower end, that was just in shambles, fighting over price, price price.” While Dash didn’t want to necessarily compete with Breville or fight over…

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  • Aug 4, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Next-Gen Cooking

    Update to June Oven App Let’s You Check Cook Programs Remotely

    June, makers of the eponymous connected countertop oven, released some new features to its mobile app last week that add remote functionality, including one to help you shop for June-ready food. The new app features access to all of the June automated cook programs. So if you’re at the store and wondering if the June…

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  • Aug 3, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Restaurant Tech

    As Buffets and Hot Bars Close Down, LeanPath Launches New Mobile Solution

    LeanPath today announced a new mobile version of its product that helps fight food waste in commercial kitchens. The new LeanPath Go is an item-based mobile tracking system that the company claims was specifically designed for the changes COVID-19 has brought to food operators, namely the shutting down of buffets and hot bars. Typically, LeanPath’s…

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  • Aug 3, 2020

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Featured, Food Waste, Foodtech, Waste Reduction

    Connected Compost: Vitamix Launches an At-Home Device to Turn Food Scraps Into Soil Nutrients

    Vitamix is the latest appliance-maker to address the issue of food waste in the consumer kitchen. The company today announced the launch of its Vitamix FoodCycler FC-50, a device that turns food scraps into additives for soil consumers can then use in their gardens.  The device itself is compact enough to fit on a kitchen…

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  • Jul 30, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Food Waste, Foodtech, News

    This Startup Is Making A Food Container That Detects How Much Time is Left Before Your Food Spoils

    What if food labels could tell you in real time if your food has gone bad? That’s the vision of a UK-based startup that has developed a set of smart food labels to determine food freshness. The labels do this via an embedded sensor that detects the ammonia levels being produced by the food. As…

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  • Jul 29, 2020

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    New Fees are Just One Issue for Mellow as the Sous-Vide Maker Tries to Stay Afloat

    It began with a comment over the weekend, when a Spoon reader told us that Mellow, the connected sous-vide appliance company, had started charging a monthly subscription. Companies charging a fee with their connected gadget is nothing new, but Mellow is now charging $5.99 to its existing owners in order for them to access formerly…

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  • Jul 23, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, News, Next-Gen Cooking

    Groupe SEB Acquires StoreBound, the Startup Behind Dash and Sobro Brands

    French home goods conglomerate Groupe SEB announced yesterday that they had acquired a majority stake in StoreBound, a New York City-based maker of stylish and sometimes tech-forward kitchen gear. StoreBound, founded by longtime housewares industry exec Evan Dash and his wife Rachel Dash, had built a reputation in recent years as a scrappy, youth-oriented housewares…

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  • Jul 20, 2020

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Foodtech, Future of Drink, News

    Pepsico Launches New SodaStream Professional Connected Sparkling Water System for Offices

    Looking at the homepage for the new SodaStream Professional is like looking back in time. The page features pictures of the connected sparkling water device in the middle of an office as workers stride by, seemingly without a care in the world, sans facemasks. I bring that up not to poke fun at Pepsico, but…

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  • Jul 15, 2020

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    Connected Kitchen, Next-Gen Cooking

    Kickstarter: BeanBon Lets You Roast Coffee Beans on Your Countertop

    If the first pandemic-spurred lockdown drove us all to bake bread, perhaps quarantine 2.0 will inspire people to roast their own coffee beans. If so, devices like the BeanBon could become all the rage. Launching on Kickstarter today, the BeanBon is a countertop home coffee roasting appliance system that can roast up to 120 grams…

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