Dough - Fridges

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Could fridges make way for kitchen cabinets that don't just keep food fresh but actually grow it?

Dough is a new series from BBC Radio 4 which looks at the business behind profitable, everyday products, assessing where the smart money is going now and what that could mean for all of us in the years ahead.

In this episode, the entrepreneur Sam White speaks with experts from the world of refrigeration including:

Federica Torelli ? Head of Product Management?with Smeg which makes fridge freezers.

Emir Lasic - Principal Analyst with the industry analysts, Omdia.

Jason Hirst - CEO and founder of EvoGro which makes plant growing cabinets.

Also joining them is the technology expert and applied futurist, Tom Cheesewright, who offers his insight and predictions on what might be coming beyond the current production pipeline.

Together, they explore fridge freezer trends and inventions chatting about their own choices for game changing, and pointless, innovations.

We hear how energy efficiency labels are not always as accurate as you might think and assess the chances of indoor incubators providing a new home for vegetables and leafy greens away from the fridge.

Produced by Viant Siddique & Jon Douglas. Dough is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in August when Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread.

In the meantime, Dough is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts and the best part is free.
0:28.0	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:40.5	Hello and welcome to Doe, the BBC Radio 4 series that looks at profitable everyday products
0:46.8	and considers how they might evolve in the future. I'm Sam White, an entrepreneur,
0:52.6	all set to take a sneak peek behind the scenes of another industry.
0:56.8	We've got people lined up to give us the inside track on a chosen product,
1:00.9	discussing the business behind it before looking ahead as to what it might be like in the future.
1:06.1	In this episode, we're opening the door on a kitchen appliance that we depend upon for food storage.
1:12.6	I'm talking about the fridge.
1:16.5	As usual, Tom Cheesewright, technology expert and applied futurist, is with me.
1:21.4	Hello, Tom.
1:22.5	Hello, Sam.
1:23.3	Delighted we've started this episode with a pun.
1:25.7	Any more of those tucked away in your salad drawer?
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