The good kitchen is a good concept — and an odd actuality

The concept of a wise kitchen conjures up a lot of photographs. You would possibly take into consideration a fridge with a large display telling you what’s inside and what you may cook dinner with it. You would possibly image a robotic in an apron milling across the kitchen, flipping pancakes with professional precision. You would possibly simply say, “Who cares?” and order DoorDash.

All of this stuff and extra appear to be they must be attainable. However whilst so many corporations and industries work to make their units smarter and extra interoperable to make the good dwelling really occur, it could generally really feel just like the kitchen is being left behind. Positive, your home equipment is likely to be getting smarter: you can begin your dishwasher from the opposite room or see the within of your oven in your smartphone display. However is any of that getting us nearer to what we actually need our kitchens to do for us? And grasp on a second: what do we actually need our kitchens to do for us?

Over the subsequent two weeks on The Vergecast, that’s the query we’ll be exploring. Together with The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, we’ll dig into the good kitchen of our desires, the less-than-dreamy actuality of the scenario, and what it’d take to make our cooking, cleansing, meal prepping, and consuming extra environment friendly and extra enjoyable.

For our first episode, Jen takes us on a tour of her personal good(ish) kitchen and explains why the kitchen typically feels left behind within the total good dwelling race. Then we chat with two friends, each of whom are attempting to construct instruments that may make your kitchen quite a bit smarter: Ben Harris, the CEO of Fresco, and Nick Holzherr, the co-founder of Samsung Meals. They inform us concerning the alternatives and challenges in reinventing the way in which we cook dinner and eat and clarify why the AI revolution would possibly usher in large change.

For extra on the good kitchen, learn a few of Jen’s current protection:

And keep tuned for subsequent week, when Jen reveals the outcomes of her good kitchen self-experiment. Bought a wise kitchen tip for us? Name The Vergecast hotline (1-866-VERGE11), ship us an e mail at vergecast@theverge.com, or go away us a remark down under!