It’s been a quiet summer in the world of kitchen tech, but over the past week, some exciting news has dropped. Here is a roundup of this past week’s news:
Suvie Rolls Out Suvie 3.0 Plus With Airfry
Suvie, the company behind the kitchen appliance with built-in refrigerators, announced today the launch of its Suvie 3.0 Plus. The 3.0 Plus adds air-frying capabilities to the appliance, powered by the addition of two convection fans, one on each cooking zone. This means that users of the new model can fry in one place while using any one of the 15 recipes in another place.
According to CEO Robin Liss, the addition of air fryers is in part due to feedback from the Suvie community. Liss says they’ve added some new features, including a new ‘Mix & Match’ mode that allows users to prepare different foods in each location at the same time.
“A lot of people like to have Chinese nights,” Liss told Spoon. They will buy orange chicken and Mongolian beef, and you can cook orange chicken in the upper area and Mongolian beef in the lower area. Mix and Match mode lets you do just that.”
The new Suvie 3.0 Plus will cost $429 with a meal subscription plan. The company will continue to sell the base Suvie 3.0 model, which will remain at $299 with a meal plan. Liss says they hope to ship the new model to customers in late September.
Combustion Adds ‘MeatNet Cloud’ and SafeCook
Combustion, maker of the Predictive Thermometer, announced this week that they have added two new features to the 8-sensor device: MeatNet Cloud connectivity and SafeCook.
If you’re wondering what the heck MeatNet is, Combustion is the trade name for its Bluetooth ad network that connects the temperature, Combustion display and smartphone app. With the addition of MeatNet Cloud, Combustion thermometer users can now monitor the cook live and in real time from anywhere.
To enable MeatNet Cloud, you have to jump through a few setup hoops. You will need to enable a smartphone or tabletop device as a bridge (the Fire thermometer only has Bluetooth, it needs a Wi-Fi-enabled device to deliver cooking data to the cloud), and once your bridge device is connected (and left at home when you travel), users can monitor the status of the cook with another mobile phone while running to the store to get their BBQ sauce or wood chips.
Combustion also announced the addition of SafeCook, which the company says uses “integrated” or cumulative bacterial destruction to determine the safety of food. It adds the number of bacterial bodies at every step of the cooking process. This means that Combustion has actually included all the USDA and FDA recommended temperatures in the application for each type of meat needed to ensure that bacteria are effectively killed. Users who turn on the SafeCook feature will be notified if the food is safe. can be eaten.
Combustion CEO Chris Young is often creative detailed (and fun to watch) videos on specific topics his company works on, and this food disinfection policy is no exception. You can check out his new video on how to rate fine line between making sure your food is cooked enough to kill any bacteria and not too dry.
Nymble Uploads AI to the Cloud and Adds New Features as It Inches to Production
Cooking robot startup Nymble posted an update this week on new features and their first plan to ship their cooking robot to customers later this month.
According to a report posted by the company’s CEO Raghav Gupta, the company recently commissioned cooking robot Nymble to perform AI computing in the cloud. The company’s AI, which is machine-learning specific that enables the appliance to fully cook and understand users’ specific patterns and preferences, has so far used a small model embedded in the appliance. Now Nymble says AI computing can now be run in the cloud on its big and fast AI model (which it calls ‘Teacher’). In the case of slow connections, Nymble says that the AI computer will work locally on the device in its own devolved AI model (called the ‘Reader’).
In addition to its AI cloud computing addition, Nymble also helped users find recipes based on food preferences and allergen restrictions as well as skipping steps with a guided recipe tutorial (which, according to the company, was the top request among its beta testers).
These updates come as the company nears the ship date of its cooking robot. According to the Guptas, the Nymble robot will begin mass production at the end of this month.