Category: Next-Gen Cooking
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When Brava shut down earlier this year, it marked the end of one of the more ambitious experiments in cooking technology of the past decade. For nearly nine years, Travis Rea helped build the company from an ambitious startup with a novel idea—using high-powered light instead of traditional heating elements to cook food—to a respected…
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Another smart oven company is saying goodbye. Brava, which makes countertop ovens that cook with light, announced today it would be shutting down. In a post shared on its Facebook and LinkedIn pages, Brava said it ceased operations on March 6. According to the announcement, the company will no longer sell new ovens, and no…
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If you were to bet on what the oldest kitchen tool in existence is, you’d be smart to put your money on the knife. It’s not just centuries old but tens of thousands of centuries old, as humans have been using sharp objects to cut food for over two million years. So when someone says…
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On July 28, some owners of the Anova Precision Oven woke up to bricked appliances. According to posts on Reddit and a Facebook group for the company’s high-tech combi-oven, customers reported “black screens of death” and non-responsive ovens after an overnight firmware update. After a flood of inbound requests for support, the company acknowledged the…
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For the past five or so years, the emails have landed in my inbox on a steady basis, nearly every month. They’ve included updates on a small startup building a countertop cooking robot named Posha. The emails, almost always written by the company’s CEO and co-founder, Raghav Gupta, detail progress, both big and small, ranging…
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When kitchen tech inventor Scott Heimendinger started prototyping his latest hardware product, he knew that much of it would need to be built overseas. Still, he was curious whether he could rely on local Seattle-based shops to produce some of the parts. “I contacted local shops here in Seattle. There are a couple of machine…
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For years, I’ve said that the Thermomix is quite possibly the most successful automated cooking appliance in the world. Sure, it’s not a humanoid robot or what we’ve come to expect from cooking robots in recent years, but the TM6 and TM7 are software-powered cooking appliances that automate and sequence functions in a way that…
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Combustion, the smart thermometer startup founded by ChefSteps cofounder Chris Young, has acquired popular recipe app Crouton. Crouton, developed by New Zealand-based software engineer Devin Davies, is a highly rated app that lets users organize all their recipes in one place. After launch, Crouton soon began gaining traction and critical attention (Apple awarded the app…
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When it comes to zombies, you never know when they’ll spring back to life. As we learned this past month, the same goes for zombie products. Teforia, the eponymous smart tea infuser that vanished when the company abruptly shut down in the fall of 2017, is back after nearly a decade. A New Jersey-based tea…
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In a world where many kitchen appliance brands have downsized or eliminated their innovation arms, FirstBuild, the device innovation and incubation for GE Appliances, is generating (and building) more ideas than ever. The group, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, has developed 104 products and features, with 37 making their way into the GE…
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After earning a PhD from MIT, Sam Calisch spent much of the past decade advocating for electrification and shaping climate policy as a lobbyist. His efforts included helping start Rewiring America, an organization focused on electrifying homes, businesses, and communities, as well as co-writing Electrify, a book about electrification, and a series called Circuit Breakers…
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This week, Brava, a company that makes countertop consumer appliances that cook with light, has announced the launch of the first major update to the software since 2021. The biggest change announced is the ability to fully access and control the Brava through the app. Unlike previous versions, which required some interaction with the Brava’s…
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