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Smart Home Upgrades You Need to Make to Your Kitchen
Even the most seasoned, dexterous and intuitive home cook would benefit from some kitchen upgrades. The right kind of kitchen can motivate even the laziest of cooks to prepare something new. Food is the spice of life and without good food, so much enjoyment just falls to the wayside. If your New Year’s resolution is to cook more, but you’re the kind of person inclined to pick up takeout on Monday and eat the leftovers through Wendesday rather than buy yourself actual groceries, a few of these appliances might end up pushing you to accomplish your goals with relative ease.
If you’re the kind of intuitive cook who often goes recipe rogue and like me, finds each dish to vary slightly each time you make it, the addition of smart appliances might allow you to hone your intitution into measurable consistency.
Stop giving all your money to the bourgeoise coffee shop. Prepare steak as good as the $200 steakhouse. Order your neccesities with just the push of a button. Turn your dumb kitchen smart.
Wireless Perfect Bake Pro Smart Kitchen Scale
Why We Picked It: If you’ve ever tried to double a recipe and seen it end in disaster, you would benefit from a cooking scale. If you’re new to cooking and looking to get better, this device pairs with an app full of auto-scale recipes so all you have to do is read the number on the scale. Not only that but the Tell The Pantry feature suggests recipes based on ingredients you already have.
Price: $97.43
Breville Mini Smart Oven with Element IQ
Why We Picked It: With a dial of 8 pre-set Element IQ cooking functions available and adjustable, this countertop oven will deliver perfect cooking with minimal room for failure. Bake a half dozen of cookies for yourself. Toast 4 slices of bread. Make a pizza. The possibilities are endless.
Price: $149.95
Hestan Cue Smart Cooking System
Why We Picked It: Anyone who has ever cooked with an induction stove says there is no going back. With this induction hot plate and 11’’ skillet, you can learn to cook precisely with full acess to the Hestan Cue Recipe app.
Price: Usually $499.99, now on sale for $399.90
Brewista Smart Pour Variable Temperature Kettle
Why We Picked It: Some of my relatives live in the UK where they take tea very seriously. Every pot of tea should be brewed to 160 degrees Fahrenheit and any deviation from this will result in poorly steeped or scalded tea. With this smart tea kettle, you can set a desired temperature and use the precision keep warm feature to maintain temperature for up to 1 hour.
Price: $99
AeroGarden Sprout LED Gourmet Herb Seed Pod Kit
Why We Picked It: If you’ve ever gone to the grocery store only to find out that the herb you need is surprisingly out of stock or you’ve bought fresh herbs only to have them go bad before you could use them fast enough, you would benefit from a fresh herb garden. Think you can only do it during the summer? With the self sustaining AeroGarden, you can grow herbs right on your kitchen counter all year round. COmes equipped with Genovese Basil, Curly Parsley, and Dill Seeds.
Price: Usually $99.95, now on sale for $59.99
Meater+ Long Range Smart Wireless Meat Thermometer
Why We Picked It: Cook your meat to your exact specifications every time with this dual-sensor meat thermometer capable of measuring the internal temperature of your meat and the temperature of your oven with the Meater app. Bluetooth and wireless connectivity allows you to put your dish in the oven and walk away (up to 165 ft) with precise alerts without fear of missing a beat. Guided Cook system walks you through every step of your process.
Price: $99
Crock Pot 6 Wuart WeMo-Enable Smart Slow Cooker
Why We Picked It: A collaboration between long standing champion in slow cooking, Crock Pot and technological pioneer, Belkin, this slow cooker with WeMo connectivity makes slow cooking even easier with remote access temperature control, pause and shut off, all from the easy-to-use WeMo app.
Price: $519
Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker
Why We Picked It: 2019 is the year the sous vide enters the homecooking sphere. Formally reserved for restaurant chefs, this precision cooker clamps onto the side of any pot and with Bluetooth connectivity, you can easily monitor, adjust and control what’s going on inside your pot from anywhere in the house to deliver perfect results, every time.
Price: $199.25
Dash Button
Why We Picked It: Available in a variety of trusted home brand skins, including Tide, Glad, Bounty, Charmin, Cascade, Clorox, Ziploc and seemingly endless others, the Amazon Dash button allows you to press and button and order that product without any additional effort.
Price: $4.99, but the $4.99 becomes a credit to your account upon arrival
Smarter 12 Cup WIFI Coffee Maker
Why We Picked It: Use the Smarter app to program your coffee maker to brew your perfect cup of coffee with options for bean-to-cup or filter coffee, desired strength levels, pre-heating time and how many cups you’d like to brew up to 12.
Price: From $323.52
