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Smart kitchen appliances make cooking a whole lot easier

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Upgrade your home-cooked meals from the comfort of your own home with these app-enabled smart kitchen appliances.

A delicious breakfast starts with a well-brewed cup of coffee or tea, and making your drinks has never been easier with this smart kettle. It’s sleek, it’s a gooseneck kettle, and it comes with an app.

Connect the kettle to the VeSync app to control the kettle remotely. It comes with presets for coffee, tea, and even a formula mode, perfect for busy moms.

With the app, you can schedule when you want to start heating the water so it’s hot when you’re ready to use it, or maintain a specific temperature so you don’t have to boil the same water again. many times.

To avoid scorching delicate loose leaf teas, you can adjust the temperature with precise temperature control. It is made of stainless steel and has an automatic shut-off and boil-dry protection.

This smart kettle is certainly nice to look at, but it is also extremely useful. Get it direct for $77.99 from Cosori or on Amazon.

For cooks with specific dietary goals, this crowd favorite has over 100,000 reviews on Amazon.

Download the VeSync app to start tracking nutritional metrics like daily calorie and sugar intake. Scan your food’s barcode to automatically add it to the app, so you can easily track its nutritional value.

If you hate converting measurements like ounces, grams, etc., you can change the scale units of measure to easily get the amount you need for a recipe.

As if the $18.99 price tag wasn’t enough for this smart scale, you can also sync your results with your Apple Health app. Keeping track of healthy eating just got easier.

If you’re a fan of one-pot meals, check out this smart pressure cooker that can easily replace a dumb Instant Pot.

It comes with the Chef IQ app, so you can control and monitor your smart pressure cooker remotely. The app also has cooking tutorials to follow if you like trying new recipes.

There’s a built-in scale that lets you easily measure ingredients and cook by weight, minimizing cleanup. It also has smart sensors that measure ingredients and tell you exactly how much liquid you need to cook each meal.

For added safety, this pressure cooker automatically releases steam at the end of pressure cooking. Be sure to read the instructions carefully, because with great pressure comes great responsibility. Buy it for $199.99 from CHEF iQ directly or get a deal for $173.91 on Amazon.

Precision is the key word here for cooks who need their meat cooked to perfection. No one wants dry, chewy steaks in their life. We certainly don’t.

This is enabled by the app, so all you have to do is select the type of food you are cooking, and it will set the time and temperature needed to cook it perfectly. Take that eye around a piece of beef, put it in a vacuum bag, put that bag in 133 F water for 24 hours, and what you get will be amazing.

Depending on your preference, once the food is cooked, you can quickly sear it in the pan for a crispy edge.

It is small and easy to store once cooking is complete. Pick one up for $99.99 at Anova or for $99.00 at Amazon.

If you like homemade fried chicken but not the greasy aftermath of cooking, this is for you.

The beauty of an air fryer is that you can fry food with a lot less oil. It does exactly that, but much more. When paired with the VeSync app, you can control and monitor your air fryer remotely and receive cooking status notifications.

It’s compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, so it can seamlessly integrate into your smart home setup. For example, when you’re doing yard work outside, you can ask Alexa how many more minutes until the food is ready.

The app also comes with different presets and guided video recipes, so you can easily customize it to your liking. And, for easy cleaning, it comes with removable baskets that are dishwasher-safe and BPA-free.

If you’re small on space but big on taste, this smart food processor may be just what you need.

While we’re not sure about the company’s claim that it’s 15 appliances in one, this is meant to replace your blender, steamer and stand mixer, not to mention the yogurt maker and the trouble.

This intriguing device mixes and cooks at the same time. Emulsify hummus, steam dumplings, cook pasta, etc.

This smart food processor comes with its own tablet, and you can also download the CookingPal app for its extensive recipe library, including special diets like vegan, paleo, keto, and more. The app also lets you follow their video recipes and check the cooking status.

It’s the ultimate investment for cooks looking for home-cooked variety and want it at the push of a button.

This smart oven cooks with infrared light that can focus on different areas at the same time. It has the ability to sear meat without burning more delicate ingredients on the same cooking tray.

For example, you can put in a baking sheet with steak, potatoes, and asparagus, and it will simultaneously cook these ingredients at different heat levels without cooking or overcooking anything.

If you’re a busy cook, you’ll love that there’s no need to preheat, so your meal can be ready faster. It also has over 6,000 recipes for the picky eaters in your life and offers different cooking modes like air fry, slow cook, and even dehydrate. It costs $1,195 from Brava or Amazon.

For serious cooks, it is important to accompany a meal with a good drink. When ordinary beer or lackluster wine just isn’t enough, you need this smart automated cocktail maker.

To get started, load up your machine with your spirits and mixers of choice. Open the Barsys app and tell it what spirits you have. From there, he’ll give you all the drinks you can make, and once you’ve selected your drink, he’ll make it for you.

The machine automatically moves your glass from left to right as it pours your drink. Machine lighting makes a fun conversation piece when you have guests over.

There are over 10,000 combinations of cocktail recipes, so you’ll always have something new to try.

It can be yours for $1,500 and is available exclusively from Barsys.