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Category: Connected Kitchen

  • Dec 26, 2019

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Featured, Modern Farmer, Next-Gen Cooking, Smart Garden

    LG Will Unveil an Indoor Farm for the Consumer Kitchen at CES 2020

    With CES right around the corner, the announcements are pouring in for new gadgets and products to be on display at the Las Vegas show, including those that will change the way we cook, eat, and think about our food.  Appliance-maker LG is the latest. The company announced this week it will unveil a smart…

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  • Dec 18, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Editor Roundtable, Podcasts, Sous Vide

    Podcast: What Does Nomiku’s Demise Mean For Consumer Sous Vide?

    Last Friday, Nomiku announced it was closing its doors. Alongside Anova and Sansaire, the San Francisco based startup founded by Lisa and Abe Fetterman was part of an early class of consumer sous vide startups looking to democratize the high-end cooking technique through technology. Now, nearly a decade after the publication of Modernist Cuisine, only…

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  • Dec 17, 2019

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Uncategorized, Waste Reduction

    Newsletter: Why Blue Bottle Coffee is Like the Tesla Cybertruck

    This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it and get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox each week! The new Tesla Cybertruck is a polarizing vehicle. People seem to either really like or hate the triangle-shaped truck. (I’m squarely in the like side because I’ve…

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  • Dec 17, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Education & Discovery, Featured

    Whisk Launches Consumer Facing App That Makes Any Recipe Shoppable

    Today Whisk, maker of a B2B food and cooking commerce platform that was acquired earlier this year by Samsung NEXT, announced it was launching its first consumer-facing app on both iOS and Android. The app allows consumers to take any recipe they discover online and make it into a shopping list that they can use…

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  • Dec 16, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Future of Drink

    Chime Does Right By its Crowdfunding Backers, Delivers First Product Next Month

    Chime is doing the right thing when it comes to asking people for money. I wish that didn’t make them stand out in the world of crowdfunding, but it does, and hopefully other Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigners will take note and learn to be more like Chime. Chime has developed an eponymous connected countertop Chai…

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  • Dec 13, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Next-Gen Cooking

    Instant Pot and Drop Partner for New Guided Cooking Recipe App

    Instant Brands, the company behind the Instant Pot, and Drop, which makes smart kitchen software, today announced that the they have developed and launched a new Instant Pot recipe app. Available for both Android and iOS, the new Instant Pot recipe app will feature roughly 1,000 recipes for Instant Brand appliances such as the Instant…

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  • Dec 11, 2019

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    Ag Tech, Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Delivery & Commerce, Featured, Modern Farmer, Restaurant Tech, The Weekly Spoon, Vertical Farming

    Newsletter: What Comes Next for Ghost Kitchens? Plus, Third-party Delivery and At-home Agtech

    This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it and get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox each week! I’m not gonna lie: putting together our market map on ghost kitchens was hard. The concept as we know it is relatively new, and the lines between…

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  • Dec 9, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Foodtech, Modern Farmer, Vertical Farming

    Miele Acquires Consumer Indoor Vertical Farm Company Agrilution

    Miele announced today that it has acquired the assets of the German company, Agrilution, makers of the Plantcube indoor vertical farm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Agrilution’s Plantcubes look like wine fridges that are meant to be built directly into home kitchens. The automated systems regulate the lighting, climate, and water levels plants…

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  • Dec 5, 2019

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    Business of Food, Connected Kitchen, Delivery & Commerce

    A Tale of Two Kickstarter Campaigns I Backed (One is Delayed)

    If you are my wife or my parents, please don’t read this, there are Christmas gift spoilers ahead. Everyone else — I didn’t get you anything so please continue! Call it hubris, but after writing about various Kickstarter campaigns that never made it to market, I thought I had a certain Spidey-sense when it comes…

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  • Dec 5, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Interfaces

    Amazon: Instant Pots, Avocados and, of course, Amazon Devices are Big Sellers This Year

    In what is becoming its own holiday tradition, Amazon sent out a press release this week explaining how Amazon and Amazon devices in particular crushed it this past Cyber Monday. In Amazon’s typical vague fashion, the company didn’t release any hard numbers, saying only that “Customers purchased millions more Amazon Devices compared to the same…

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  • Dec 3, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Featured, Foodtech, Next-Gen Cooking

    Kickstarter: Is Neoven’s Promise of a Portable Oven with Fridge and Mixer too Good to Be True?

    Is there any promise less trustworthy than a Kickstarter promise? Crowdfunding campaigns intentionally paint a pretty picture to attract your dollars, but sadly those promises often go unfulfilled, literally (looking at you Rite Press and iGulu). With that in mind, I’m casting a bit of the ole’ side eye at the NEOVEN, a product now…

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  • Dec 2, 2019

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    Connected Kitchen, Next-Gen Cooking

    The Three Stages of Thanksgiving Connected Cooking Grief

    In retrospect, I was too cocky this Thanksgiving. Backed by cooking technology and cloud connected apps, I thought making my first turkey would be a breeze. I’d turn a dial, tap a button on my phone and voila! A perfectly cooked turkey would emerge. Like some folktale about technology versus tradition, I was wrong. While…

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