The smart kitchen is a great idea — and a strange reality

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Over the next two Sundays on The Vergecast, The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy and David Pierce dig into the dream smart kitchen, the less-than-dreamy reality of the situation, and what it might take to make cooking, cleaning, meal-prepping, and eating more efficient and more fun. On this episode, Jen takes us on a tour of her own smart(ish) kitchen, and explains why the kitchen often feels left behind in the overall smart home race. Then, Jen and David are joined by Ben Harris, the CEO of Fresco; and Nick Holzherr, the co-founder of Samsung Food. They tell us about the opportunities and challenges in reinventing the way we cook and eat, and explain why the AI revolution might usher in huge change. Further reading: This smart oven solved my work-from-home lunchtime conundrum 2023 in the smart home: Matter’s broken promises How the smart home is finally getting out of your phone and into your home Appliance makers are teaming up to reduce your electricity usage — and save you cash This smart mixer did not make me a better baker Can Samsung Food usher in a new era for the smart kitchen? Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Kohler. Smart lights, smart refrigerators, smart locks.
0:06.0	The list of smart gadgets meant to make life more convenient grows longer and longer every day.
0:11.0	But what about smart things that are also beautiful things? Luxurious even. Meet
0:16.0	the Numi 2.0, Kohler's smartest toilet yet. The Numi 2.0 is a fully connected
0:21.2	oasis of clean and comfort with unmatched sculptural design.
0:25.0	More than a toilet, it's a work of art.
0:27.0	Make your bathroom the smartest, cleanest, and most comfortable room in your home with Kohler.
0:32.0	Learn more at Kohler.com.
0:34.2	Welcome to the Virgcast,
0:39.3	the flagship podcast of Automated Pancake flippers.
0:42.8	I'm your friend David Pierce, and this is the first episode in our two episode
0:46.8	mini series all about the Smart Home.
0:49.2	And actually, we're even more focused than the Smart Home.
0:51.8	We're just talking Smart Kitchens. So for the next two Sundays,
0:54.8	we're going to get deep in the weeds and in our feelings about smart kitchens. And Jen Patterson-Tooy is the only person I could
1:01.1	imagine doing this with. Jen Jen thank you for being here
1:03.2	thank you David I'm so excited about this I am a smart kitchen fanatic a
1:07.8	frustrated smart kitchen fanatic so I'm really excited to dive into this.
1:13.0	The frustrated part is kind of why we both really wanted to do it.
1:18.0	Talking about the Smart Home, like our only rule coming into this series was we can't make a series about matter.
1:22.0	That was the only thing I believed in my soul.
1:26.3	I was like, come on David, matter. It's obvious. He's like, no. But don't worry,
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