Gadgets plus food. If that doesn’t make your heart skip a beat, you might need to have your pulse checked. Sure, everyone uses their phone to take those mouthwatering Snapchat and Instagram pics of their brunch, but for most, that’s where the connection to food and gadgetry stops… until today, that is. These 15 food gadgets are so brilliant that you’ll be thanking your lucky stars you weren’t born in the stone age when all humankind had to soothe our combined food and tech cravings was the microwave oven. What a great time to be alive! Sincere apologies to your bank account, though.
The Prep Pad
Having a Prep Pad is truly like living in the future. On its surface, it’s a food scale, but when you connect it to your iPad, it becomes a personal nutritional coach. The Prep Pad can give you all kinds of information about the food you’re weighing, like nutritional value and proper portion sizing. It also syncs with fitness trackers to recommend meals based on how much activity you squeeze into your day. Right? The only way it could be better is if it actually cooked, too.
Digital Measuring Cup
If you’re not one of those fancy cooks who can eyeball everything, a digital measuring cup is going to be a game changer in your kitchen. Let’s be real, it might even prevent some kind of explosion. Kitchen chemistry can be very unforgiving. This measuring cup has separate settings for liquids and dry ingredients, plus you can even measure meat with it. Keep one of these by your side, and you’ll be scraping food off your ceiling much less often.
The Egg Minder
Picture it. You’re at the grocery store. You can’t remember how many eggs you have. And you can’t remember how old they are, either. You don’t want to live in a world without eggs, but you also don’t want to buy and carry more eggs than you need. What’s a person to do? Enter the Egg Minder . It’s an egg storage container with a smartphone app that will show you how many eggs you have, how old they are, and which eggs to eat first to reduce waste. You’ll never have a less-than-perfect egg situation again.
Power Pot
Do you camp? If so, you’re going to feel like a real wilderness conqueror with the Power Pot. Why, you ask? Oh, no reason. Only because YOU CAN CHARGE YOUR PHONE WITH ACTUAL FIRE. It has a USB adapter built in, and as you cook, the Power Pot converts heat from any heat source into sweet electricity for your mobile devices. If you don’t think that’s cool, I have to wonder if you know what that word means.
Tactical Laser-Guided Pizza Cutter
If your hand-eye coordination game isn’t strong, you’ve probably either cut a pizza into some kind of squiggly puzzle, or sliced through your own fingers. Pizza cutting wheels are not child’s play. You can dramatically improve your accuracy, though, and your coolness cred, with a Tactical Laser-Guided Pizza Cutter . It uses a real laser to light the way to a perfectly sliced pizza. It’s how James Bond cuts his pizza… or at least, how he should.
GE Brillion Profile Wall Ovens
The GE Profile line of wall ovens includes some pretty impressive gadgetry, tied to its GE Brillion app. With the app, you can pre-heat the oven from anywhere. Once you have your meal in, the app can tell you when it’s perfectly cooked. Probably most impressive feature, though, is the anxiety-busting ability to check and see if your left your oven on when you left the house, and to turn it off if you did, all from you smartphone. If only it worked on hair straighteners…
TellSpec
TellSpec really is the future of food tech. Its magic lies in a small, hand-held scanner that searches your food to tell you what’s in it. It’s kind of like food Google. It can pick up pesticides, added colors, and even food allergens, which can make it a true lifesaving device for people with serious allergies. Once the TellSpec scans your food, it will send the data to your smartphone so you can get a clear picture of all the ingredients in your meal. It’s like an allergy suffer or organic foodie’s dream come true.
HapiFork
Do you eat too fast? A lot of people do. Eating too fast can cause you to overeat before your brain signals you to stop putting things in your mouth. If you get a HapiFork , you can use it to retrain yourself to eat more slowly. It measured how fast you eat and how long you pause between bites. If you eat too fast, it will vibrate to let you know. You can catch all of your eating speed data on your smartphone, too.
SimpleHuman Smart Trash Cans
Never touch a dirty trash can again thanks to these smart trash cans ! No foot pedals. No levers. No lids to spin or lift. These kitchen gadgets have sensors included, so all you have to do is wave at them to get them to open. Plus, the Internet loves how beautiful they look.
Washable Tablet — Sony Xperia Tablet Z: Kitchen Edition
Tablets are great for recipes. They’re also great for playing games or watching movies while you wash dishes or wait for things to cook. That being said, they’re a magnet for spills and mess. Those wonderful geniuses at Sony created a tablet especially for kitchen users that’s so water-resistant, you can rinse it off under the tap without damaging it. Now that’s brilliant!
Hiku
Hiku solves the problem of wandering through the grocery store and trying to remember what you need. It’s a refrigerator magnet with a scanner that can read the bar codes of foods you want to buy and add them to the grocery list app on your smartphone. No barcode? Just speak into it and Hiku will add your item to the list. It’s like Star Trek up in here.
Range Thermometer
Yet another piece of tech that makes your smartphone a powerful kitchen tool is the Range Thermometer. One end goes in your meat, the other goes into your phone, and you get to relax while the app tell you exactly when your meat is at your preferred temperature. Never suffer through a dry roast again! The only problem is, what do you do without your phone while the food cooks? Do you have to go outside or something? Huh…
I think this just about sums it up:
