Gadgetory

2016 was a big year for the smart home and we saw companies taking huge strides for making your cooking smarter too let's take a look at some of the gadgets that caught our eye this year by handing out a few superlatives now the award for most improved to goes to Amazon Alexa at the beginning of the year this platform didn't really do much in the kitchen but she really stepped up with partnerships with GE appliances and a new immersion circulator called Jewel and what do those partnerships mean you can use your voice to control some of your cooking appliances so you can preheat the oven or check the temperature of your sous vide water bath just with your voice now for the most ambitious debut I got to give this one to the June intelligent oven this countertop cooker has a camera built-in along with the processor that's worthy of being in a smart phone and Wi-Fi capability so that you could not only watch what you cooked as it was cooking but the oven could also recognize your food now it did have some faults and it's $1,500 but it was definitely an ambitious debut for a company that shows us what we can do when it comes to cooking and technology and speaking of expensive appliances I give the splurge if you got an award to the Samsung family hub refrigerator yes this appliance is five thousand six hundred dollars but it is so cool it has a very sleek modern look a lot of storage options once you get inside but there's also a 21 and a half inch touchscreen built into the door of the refrigerator that has special apps that help you create to-do list there's also built in cameras in this fridge which is great if you're stuck in the grocery store and need a quick picture of what you have at home and one thing 2016 showed us was that sous-vide immersion circulators aren't going anywhere which is why i give this category of gadgets that here to stay award brands like na miku innova and jewel all they viewed new Wi-Fi connected appliances that help you cook with sous-vide which is a kind of weird method that involves a vacuum-sealed bag of food and a water bath even if you're not quite on board with this method of cooking it's becoming more and more popular and because of that we're seeing more and more devices into this category 2016 was a big year for smart kitchen appliances and I don't expect 2017 to be any different be on the lookout for more partnerships and more innovative technology that actually proves to be helpful and maybe teaches you a thing or two about cooking