While we haven’t achieved The Jetsons-esque hovercrafts and robot maids yet, the home of the future is definitely here today. Not only is technology influencing what we make, it’s also influencing how and where we do it. New advances in technology are impacting our creative lives at home. Since the kitchen is the heart of the home, we searched high and low to find 2015’s coolest kitchen appliances for you, the modern homemaker.
Dual-Fuel Range: Two electric stoves are better than one. What’s better than that? An integrated Android tablet/control panel along with an app that lets users control it from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Food Printer: 3D printers can print jewelry, organ parts and now food. The printer can print one cookable object at a time, allowing you to eventually bake a batch of confections.
Slide-In Induction Chef Collection Range + Flex-Duo Oven: This oven is great for chefs of any level. For newbie chefs, the cooktop projects virtual LED flames onto your pot, so you’ll always know when a burner is on. For the pros, the “Flex-Duo Oven” means you can cook two separate dishes at completely different temperatures.
Smarter WiFi Coffee Machine: There is truly nothing better than a perfect cup of coffee in the morning. But a lot of the time it is hard for us to actually get out of bed and go and make that perfect cup, that's where this coffee machine comes handy. It responds to your smartphone, so your coffee is ready just when you want it.
Four-Door Refrigerator With WiFi Enabled LCD: Your midnight snack hunts just got high-tech. This smart fridge features built-in WiFi and an integrated LCD touchscreen. If you can’t find anything to eat, you can use your phone to connect to the fridge’s LCD screen and call for pizza delivery. Afterwards, you can tweet about how you just made a phone call from your fridge.
High Tech Dishwasher: No need to serve paper plates at your next soiree with Panasonic’s new, energy-efficient dishwasher. This sleek device features a self-operating door and can wash dishes for a party of up to 13 of your closest friends. With a noise level of just 44 decibels, this baby runs near-silent, so you won’t lose sleep listening to clinks and clanks all night.
Refrigerator Brewing System For Refrigerators: Here’s a fridge that can brew coffee and tea. Need we say more? Okay fine, we will. In addition to a Keurig K-Cup brewing system, this refrigerator also features advanced water filtration and a full-width electronic temperature-controlled drawer with colored LED lights.
Palate Home Smart Grill: With the Palate Home Smart Grill, multitasking can now mean listening to a Spotify playlist, checking out new recipes on Pinterest and grilling a steak to perfection, from your iPad.
Crock Pot Slow Cooker: We’re big fans of crock pot recipes, and this crock pot is aces in our book. You can connect it with your smartphone and turn it on, adjust the temperature, alter cooking time and turn it off from anywhere that has a WiFi connection.
Perfect Bake System: Maybe it’s time to actually bake something from your “Desserts” pinboard. No need to worry about perfect measurements, because the Perfect Bake System has got you covered. It does the math for you by weighing each ingredient for accuracy and using built-in timers to let you know when you’re done mixing, baking or cooling. How perfect is that?
Jazz up your latte with this “spice pen,” that lets you write, cake frosting-style, using a thin line of ground spices.
Airfryer: We may love the taste of fried foods, but our waistlines (and our hearts) aren't so crazy about them. This Airfryer takes some of the guilt out of the process that replicates a deep fryer using just a teaspoon of actual oil and a whole lot of hot air. It cooks food quickly and evenly and will give you that crunch you crave, without the extra fat and calories.
Food Recycler: The Food Recycler is a solution to help reduce food waste in landfills. Built to convert household food waste into homemade fertilizer, it can handle a week’s worth of discarded food for an average family. (Based on estimated 3.5 kg weekly household food waste for average U.S. family.)
SmartyPan: SmartyPans is a sensor enabled cooking pan that connects chefs and health professionals with home cooks. The pan has weight and temperature sensors that allow our app to document recipes and give step-by-step cooking instructions in real time.
