Innovative Kitchen Tech Revealed At CES 2024 Forecast A “Smart” Future

As with every year, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has offered an exciting peek into the future. Smart tech continues to reshape how we cook and consume food. This year’s most talked-about gadgets offer a host of intelligent features that are sure to simplify your kitchen experience. The days of hovering over the stove for hours or trying to decide what to cook with the random ingredients in your fridge may soon be over. From indoor smart smokers to home-brewed beer, these innovations will simplify cooking and save us time in the kitchen.

SAMSUNG BESPOKE SMART FRIDGE

This “bespoke” refrigerator comes with artificial intelligence, Samsung’s AI Family Hub app, and a 32-inch interactive screen. Customers can view step-by-step cooking videos, along with YouTube, TikTok, and Samsung TV Plus. If that wasn’t enough, the fridge also responds to voice commands and can even suggest recipes for up to 33 food items in your fridge.

PERFECTA BY SEER GRILLS (STEAK TOASTER)

Jaw-dropping $3,500 price tag aside, a toaster oven that grills perfect steaks sounds like a genius idea. The Perfecta by Seer Grills is an oven that’s designed like a toaster. It cooks steak, chicken, and fish upright at up to 1,600 degrees F, and only requires selecting the desired setting. It’s also the world’s first AI-powered grill and claims to be the world’s fastest grill, too, delivering results in as little as 90 seconds. Grill masters looking for an edge can expect to see these babies sometime during the second half of 2024. To avoid the full retail price, you can pre-order one now for only $1,000.

GE PROFILE SMART INDOOR SMOKER

With GE’s new indoor smart smoker, you can infuse meats with delicious smokiness from the comfort of your kitchen counter. It uses Active Smoke Filtration to activate real-wood pellet smoke indoors. Carcinogens are removed by an internal catalyic converter without impacting taste. Using only a fraction of the wood pellets you typically use, GE’s indoor smart smoker produces the same flavor-filled results. You can purchase one now on GE’s website for $999.

iGULU F1 HOME BREWING MACHINE

Skip the local pub with iGulu’s Home Brewing Machine. With it, you can brew quality IPAs, stouts, and even fruit-infused beers. Whether a master brewer or a curious connoisseur, iGulu’s Home Brewing Machine puts the power in your hands. It’s currently available for pre-order at $599.00, yet its official retail price is $749.00. You have two color options, black and white, and for a limited time, can activate “Master Mode” for free at the point of purchase. When in Master Mode, you can brew your own customized recipe.

BARSYS 360 COCKTAIL ROBOT

If a well-balanced cocktail is more your speed, live out your mixologist dreams with Barsys’ new 360 Cocktail Robot. In only a few steps it personalizes cocktails and also features a wide selection of recipes curated by renowned bars, mixologists, and brands on the accompanying app. Its sleek cylindrical design is sure to catch your eye and comes equipped with lighting effects, too. The 360 Cocktail Robot is available in black and white, along with several lighting options. Transform your home bar for just $475.00, or $42.87/month with Shop Pay.

SEVVY SMART COOKER

Winner of the “Best of Innovation” Award, the Sevvy Smart Cooker is a new way to prepare food without cooking oil. It uses 50% less salt and sugar than traditional methods, and up to 90% less electricity. Sevvy is a food technology company that focuses on healthy, sustainable, and fast cooking and baking. The Smart Cooker gets the job done without compromising on nutritional value. It retains the flavorful juices in foods and produces quality texture and taste. At the moment, there is no mention of when it will be officially released to the consumer market.

COLDSNAP ICE CREAM ROBOT

With ColdSnap’s Ice Cream Robot, making ice cream at home is about to become an everyday treat. Sort of like a Keurig for ice cream, it comes with a wide selection of flavors that are available in recyclable shelf-stable pods. Simply insert a pod into the machine and watch it dispense delicious ice cream in minutes. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait to get your hands on one. ColdSnap is currently offering the opportunity to test pilot its Ice Cream Robot in select locations throughout the country. A broader release is expected later this year.

WEBER SUMMIT SMART GRILL

To experience the barbecue-altering capabilities of Weber’s new Summit Smart Grill, you’re gonna have to shell out a lot of cash. Its laundry list of impressive features are more than worth the $3,899 price tag, though. Earn your grill master badge with its top-down infrared broiler that caramelizes steaks, a heavy-duty multiple-chicken rotisserie, WEBER CRAFTED cooking grates for expanded techniques, stainless-steel smoker box, and side burner with extra cooking space. The WEBER Summit Smart Grill isn’t yet available for pre-order, but you can sign up to be notified on the website.

WILLCOOK EXFIBERS OVEN BAG

Since the dawn of time, people have searched for ways to keep cooked foods hot while on the go. Now you can enjoy warm picnic food for hours with WillCook’s battery-powered oven bag. Stylish and compact, the oven bag heats to 300 degrees F and can keep warm for up to eight hours. At a glance, it resembles a laptop case that you can wear across your shoulder. Along with looking good and being useful, it’s microwave safe, can warm food in just 20 minutes, and keeps solids and liquids at 140 degrees F for over two hours.

TECHMAGIC STIR-FRY I-ROBO

Automation is continuing to make waves in the food space. TechMagic is a company that creates several types of automated food-making robots. Its I-Robo model stewed up a storm at CES 2024 by making hungry attendees stir-fry. Deliciously steamy bowls were pumped out in just two minutes — it can produce 30 meals each hour. Sadly, you won’t be able to bring TechMagic’s I-Robo home with you, as it’s only made for restaurants.