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Let’s be honest: most of us don’t have time to cook a healthy meal three times per day. We want to start off our mornings with a fresh green juice, but the prepping and cleaning process is a nightmare. We want to pack healthy lunches, but it always seems to take too long. We crave a something healthy and nourishing when we get home from work, but we’re often too tired to spend an hour or two cooking.
Luckily, there are more and more smart kitchen products on the market that will help us cook better, faster, and healthier. Here are 14 tools we love that will help you bake, grill, prepare, and serve delicious food—every day.
Part sous vide, part sous-chef.
Why does it always feel so impossible to cook a piece of meat to perfection? How do they make steak so perfectly medium at a restaurant, but when you try it at home, you’re stuck with something too raw or overcooked? Now, with Cinder, you can cook your meat at home just like a high-end restaurant would. This countertop grill has 450° searing power, cooking your food evenly and at with the temperature perfection you’d expect from a nice restaurant.
While most traditional stovetops have wound heating coils, which distribute heat unevenly, Cinder’s heating nodes operate like tiny lightbulbs turning on and off constantly. The result? No-hassle sous-vide cooking (a method typically used in restaurants that involves vacuum sealing and water baths). You can use this tool to cook and sear food with precision, as well as make just about anything—from steaks and fish, to vegetables and omelettes. Your dinner guests will think you have a professional chef working in the kitchen!
The powerful, easy-to-use computer-based oven.
It is truly insane (in the best possible way) how thoughtfully constructed the June Intelligent Oven is. Whether you’re a novice in the kitchen or a professional chef, this product is going to elevate your cooking game. It’s built with six carbon fiber heating elements to help you roast, toast, broil, and bake to perfection. It also cooks your food 25% faster than most conventional ovens. And, the whole thing has been engineered with safety in mind, so you don’t have to worry about blowing your house up (yay!).
From the June app on your iPhone or iPad, you can do things like: preheat the oven, add a few minutes to your cook time, get notified when your food is almost done, and find tasty recipes wherever you are (though, we still recommend you cook while you’re somewhere in or near the house). This impressive kitchen innovation is sure to delight. [Insert squeals of joy here.]
The first at-home, cold-press juicing system.
We’d probably drink healthy, fresh juices more often if they didn’t take so much effort and an entire bundle of fresh vegetables and fruit to make. Juicero is making those dreams come true with a super simple cold-press juicer that requires just about as much effort as making a cup of coffee with a Keurig machine. The machine will cold-press nutrient-dense, raw produce into a glass in minutes—with zero cleanup.
You can order juice packs as you go, or have them sent to you on a subscription-basis. Each pack is filled with organic produce and never any water, additives, or preservatives. All fruits and veggies come from select organic farm partners and are prepped to make the perfect glass of fresh juice without the fuss. Juicero is now available in 17 states; see if you can get it where you live today.
Food scraps today, fertilizer tomorrow.
The Zera Food Recycler was made to fit in your kitchen and turn food scraps into ready-to-use homemade fertilizer. What’s the point of this? Well, the average family produces more than 400 pounds of food waste every year, which takes up about 20% of space in landfills—not great for our environment.
This is the perfect product for your kitchen if you want to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, as it reduces food waste by two-thirds its original volume. In return, you get fertilizer that you can use within 24 hours for better soil for your plants. This is a low-maintenance option to traditional composting, allowing you to recycle most types of food waste, including meat and dairy.
The connected nespresso machine.
Thanks to Nespresso Prodigio, your phone can now make the perfect cup of coffee. This Bluetooth-connected machine does everything—from scheduling a brew in advance so you can wake up to a just-made cup of coffee, to automatically ordering new capsules when you’re running low. Make your coffee in three different sizes (Ristretto, Espresso, and Lungo), and get an alert every time your machine needs maintenance. You will be as delightfully caffeinated as ever with this state-of-the-art espresso machine.
Your home-cooking sidekick.
Hello Egg is a smart kitchen assistant to help you plan your weekly meals based on your dietary preferences. It’ll adjust to special events, like a night out or an at-home dinner with friends who are vegan and meat lovers. Hello Egg will keep track of what’s in your pantry, organize your shopping list, and come up with recipes that work for your needs (and help you use the food you’ve already got). You can also use this AI-powered device to order any groceries you need and have them delivered right to your door. This little gadget is sure to make it easier to stick to a healthy diet and plan your meals and grocery shopping without the extra hassle.
Fresh cookies in under 10 minutes.
Ummm…an automatic cookie maker? Yes, please. The CHiP Smart Cookie Oven will bake fresh, gourmet cookies in 10 minutes—with minimal preparation, preheat, and clean-up required. This cookie oven has several neat features; here are a few of our favorites:
A smart planter for growing herbs and spices.
Holy greens! The Smart Herb Garden is the cutest little indoor gardening solution you ever did see. All you have to do is plug it in, add water, and the rest is taken care of. The company, Click & Grow, uses super cool NASA-inspired technology to help the herbs grow faster naturally without the use of pesticides, insecticides, plant hormones, GMOs, or other sketchy substances.
The magic really is in the soil here, which contains a “nano-technological growth medium that balances oxygen, water and nutritional ingredients at an optimal level.” Each one comes with 3 refill cartridges — so whenever you’re ready for new plants, all you have to do is replace the old cartridges with new ones.
The easiest way to grow fresh food indoors sustainably.
The Click & Grow team also made The Wall Farm, a bigger version of the little guy above. This is a great way to grow fresh food indoors in an easy and affordable way. Typically, growing systems invoice fancy pumps and rock wool, but this uses smart soil to help you control the most important elements of plant growth. The technology will help save water, which also reducing the environmental impact that most plant production practices have these days. This is a fantastic way to get fresh herbs, greens, and fruits year-round, and is particularly useful if you live in a city and don’t have access to your own outdoor garden.
Wall Farms come with a full set of plant capsules; you get to choose between a salad kit (chives, chili peppers, lettuce, red basil, and tomato) or an herb kit (bloody sorrel, leaf mustard, lettuce, oregano, parsley, and thai basil). Add on a subscription to keep your little farm fully stocked with new plants.
Infrared WiFi connected grill.
Smartchef is a WiFi-connected grill that allows you to control your grilling from your smartphone. This TRU-Infared Cooking System provides even heat, prevents flare-ups, and cooks juicier food. The cool thing about this grill is that, while it takes some patience to set up, you’ll feel like a grill master once you get the hang of it. Say goodbye to overcooked or underdone meat; now you’ll get perfect steaks, chicken, burgers, and more every time.
You can adjust the temperature with a tap on your phone, making the grilling process easier than ever before. As one reviewer writes, “I have used several grills over the years including smokers, charcoal grills, gas grills, and I can say this is the best grill I have ever used for all around grilling.”
A smart Wi-Fi connected wine bottle with a touchscreen
If you’re a wine lover, this is a must-have. The Kuvée smart bottle pairs with Kuvee wines and keeps them fresh for up to 30 days so you don’t feel like you need to chug a whole bottle quickly (or stick to just one at a time). This bottle keeps oxygen out so that your wine stays fresh for much longer.
The touchscreen allows you to learn more about the wine, measure the number of glasses left, and order more before you run out. Rate wines as you go, and Kuvee will get better over time at recommending new wines you’re bound to love. This is the perfect gift for the occasional wine lover—or the one who loves variety and wants to try many different bottles at once.
The first smart water filter for homes.
Finally, a smart water filter to replace the traditional Brita filter. Cove has fancy filtering capabilities that absorb impurities in tap water while keep the minerals your body needs, allowing you to rehydrate more efficiently. This device also has sensors that will show you how the quality of water you put into Cove improves through the filtering system so that you’re aware of how your water is changing. This is the perfect device for a smarter kitchen and a healthier you—especially if one of your goals this year is to drink more water every day. 🙂
Put your device in a timer-locked container
While this isn’t a Bluetooth-connected device, we still think it’s pretty smart—especially if you’re one of those people who can’t reach for just one cookie after dinner. Whatever your physical vice is (food or otherwise), just throw it in this time-locked container, set the timer, and ta-da! Bad habits avoided instantly. Whether you want to avoid sweets or stop spending money on your credit card for an extended period of time, The Kitchen Safe is the perfect habit-building product for you.
Better home cooking through science.
There are about a trazillion cookbooks out there, but The Food Lab is bound to be one of your favorites. If you’ve ever wondered how to cook a perfectly medium-rare steak on a pan, or make mac ’n’ cheese that is perfectly smooth, or hard boil an egg exactly the way you want it, this is the cookbook for you. Serious Eats’s culinary “nerd-in-residence,” J. Kenji López-Alt, has explored the answers to all of our most common cooking questions. Using the science of heat and energy, he reminds us that conventional cooking methods aren’t always best—and tells us how to do it better. Whether you want to make the perfect french fries or the perfect salad, you’ll find it all in The Food Lab.
P.S. The 1,000+ color photographs throughout this 900-page book are so beautiful, you’ll want to set it out on your coffee table.
Ahhh, the joy of having a smart kitchen. Maybe one day, our products will cook the whole meal for us while we relax on the couch. Until then, if you’re looking for more products to make cooking better and easier, check out the full collection here:
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