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Nearly Seven Years After Launching Kickstarter, Silo Finally Delivers Next-Gen Home Food Storage System
June 16, 2025 Michael Wolf

June 13, 2025

What Flavor Unlocks

June 12, 2025

Starbucks Unveils Green Dot Assist, a Generative AI Virtual Assistant for Coffee Shop Employees

June 11, 2025

Impulse Announces Its Battery-Integrated Cooktop Becomes First Certified to Applicable UL Safety Standards

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Can Whirlpool’s Deal to Use BORA’s Downdraft Ventilation Add Momentum to Induction in the US?

February 26, 2024 Michael Wolf

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One of the more intriguing long-term technology trends in the kitchen industry has been the up-and-down market evolution of induction cooking. Though introduced almost a century ago at the 1933 […]

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The Origin Story Behind OMM, the Countertop Egg-Making Robot from Bridge Appliances

February 20, 2024 Michael Wolf

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A few years ago, Lance Lentini was a year out of college when he started working at DEKA Research & Development, a technology development firm. This wasn’t just any engineering […]

Podcast: Overcoming Obstacles To Build Kitchen Tech Hardware With Ovie’s Ty Thompson

February 14, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first hardware product. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over […]

Chef Robotics Hits 10M Meal Milestone in Under Two Years. The Secret? AI-Powered Robots Trained With Lots of Field Data

February 13, 2024 Michael Wolf

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This week, food automation startup Chef Robotics told The Spoon it had reached the ten million-meal milestone, less than two years after the company’s first robot was deployed in June […]

It’s All But Official: The June Oven is Cooked

February 12, 2024 Michael Wolf

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If you’ve been paying attention to the June Oven website lately (and really, who hasn’t?), you may have noticed that it’s been a bit difficult to order a new smart […]

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Mill, Maker of a High-Tech Home Food Waste Bin, Adjusts Plans and Enables Purchase Option

February 12, 2024 Michael Wolf

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It’s been just over a year since the Mill, the company behind a high-tech home food waste bin, was announced to the public. The company, which made an initial splash […]

Fresco Deal With Panasonic Brings Device Control & AI-Powered Planning to HomeCHEF Multi-Oven Lineup

February 9, 2024 Michael Wolf

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At CES 2024, Panasonic announced that it had struck a deal with smart kitchen OS startup Fresco to integrate the Fresch kitchen OS platform with the Japanese brand’s multi-oven countertop […]

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Check Out NXP’s Presence-Sensing Cooktop Demo Powered by On-Chip AI

February 7, 2024 Michael Wolf

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We’re still sifting through some of the cool product demos from CES last month, and one that caught my eye was the demo by NXP of a presence-sensing cooktop powered […]

Algae Cooking Club Debuts High-Smoke Point Cooking Oil Made from Fermented Microalgae

February 5, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, a startup called the Algae Cooking Club introduced its first product, a chef-grade algae-based cooking oil. According to the company, the new oil has a smoke point of 535 […]

Food as Medicine Platform Foodsmart Expands Reach to 7.4 Million Patients as it Reels in $10M in Fresh Funding

January 31, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, food as medicine and telehealth startup Foodsmart announced an expansion of its “Foodscripts” program and a new round of funding. The company says it will reach up to 7.4 […]

Big Idea Ventures’ GFRP Fund Acquires Edible Packaging Startup DisSolves

January 30, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP (GFRP), a member fund that is part of the food tech investor Big Idea Ventures (BIV) family, has announced its acquisition of DisSolves, […]

Chris Young: Generative AI Will Provide Big Payoffs in Helping Us Cook Better, But Overhyping It Will Burn Some Folks

January 29, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Chris Young has never been shy about providing his thoughts about the future of cooking. Whether it was on stage at the Smart Kitchen Summit, on his YouTube channel, or […]

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