Yahoo Finance Connected cooking: the next generation of kitchen appliances
Can I cook it? Yes, I can... but only with the right tech to upgrade my pan. Cooking is as old as the hills but the winds of change leaves no pastime unturned.
We might be a city with a Deliveroo habit but that doesn’t mean we don’t have high standards in our kitchens too. The latest tech takes the pain out of cooking, with smart hobs and fridges that automatically restock so you can concentrate on the creative part.
From the hottest kitchen taps to coffee machines for connoisseurs, spice up your culinary arsenal with this new metal army.
1. HIKU digital shopping list
Press to impress. The Hiku shopping button lives in your kitchen, records and recognises your voice, scans barcodes and sticks on fridges — creating a shared shopping list on your phone so that you always know what you need.
£34, Hiku, Buy it now
2. Hestan Cue
The thinking man’s smart frying pan, the Hestan Cue is connected cookware, combining a portable induction burner, a pan, and a “guided cooking system with recipe app” to take video recipes from your tablet to your table.
£380, Hestan Cue, Buy it now
3. Samsung Family Hub
These hi-tech fridges are fitted with cameras that take “shelfies” of their contents and send them to your phone, no filter. The cameras are fitted into the top, middle and bottom of the door and take pictures just before the fridge light turns off.
£3,999, John Lewis, Buy it now
4. Kitchenaid
Ideal whether you’re making a snack for yourself or baking up a storm for the whole family, the Artisan stand mixer is designed to be both easy to use and efficient, with an ability to process both larger and smaller quantities of food.
£739, Selfridges, Buy it now
5. The Oracle
Who needs to go out when you can make your espresso at home? Long live The Oracle. With automatic grinding, dosing, tamping and milk texturing, it replaces the two most difficult parts of manual espresso making.
£1,700, Sage Appliances, Buy it now
6. Insinkerator tap HC1100
A watched kettle never boils — so pipe boiling hot H2O straight from source. The HC1100 tap dispenses both steaming hot and cold filtered water at the flick of a lever.
£230, Bath Shop 321, Buy it now
7. iSommelier
iSommelier aerates your wine with highly concentrated purified oxygen, softening the tannins and speeding up the decanting process by hours, to just minutes.
£349, Wineware, Buy it now
