Steak Toasters, Indoor Smokers and Robot Cocktails: All the Kitchen Tech of CES 2024 – CNET [CNET]

David lives in Brooklyn where he’s spent more than a decade covering all things edible, including meal kit services, food subscriptions, kitchen tools and cooking tips. Since earning a BA in English from Northeastern in Boston, he’s toiled in nearly every aspect of the food business, including as a line cook in Rhode Island where he once made a steak sandwich for Lamar Odom. Right now, he’s likely somewhere stress-testing a blender or researching the best way to make bacon. Anything with sesame is his all-time favorite food this week.

Among all of the cool tech stuff at CES 2024 (including our best of show picks), there were a lot of great inventions and gadgets for your kitchen.

The world’s largest tech expo had cooking robots, smart kitchen composters and even a toaster meant to sear your best rib eyes, vertically, in under 2 minutes.

Hungry for more? Here’s all the best cooking tech and kitchen innovation we spotted at CES 2024.

Would you put a good rib eye in a toaster? The makers of this pricey new infrared vertical grill think you should. The SeerGrills Perfecta, which cooks meat standing upright with burners that reach “up to 1,600 degrees F,” was one of the most curious pieces of kitchen hardware we saw at this year’s show. 

The SeerGrills team wasn’t doing any cooking demos, so we’ll have to take their word for it for now. You can read more about the Perfecta in our full breakdown here. 

Weber showed off its impressive line of new grills at CES. The $3,800 Summit SmartFS38X is the brand’s most intelligent grill yet, with all digital controls and burners that adjust on their own to maintain optimal temperature and reignite themselves when they go out.

But that’s not even the coolest thing about the Weber Summit SmartFS38X…

Weber’s new grill features a blazing top-down infrared broiler, the first of its kind, to give a quick crust to steaks, chops and salmon fillets without losing them through the grates. 

That’s right, an indoor smoker. GE Profle’s indoor BBQ smoker was one of the buzziest reveals at CES. The novel appliance uses a catalytic converter to remove the nasty bits from smoke, leaving flavor-packed hot air to slow-cook meats, fish and cocktail garnishes without smoking out the kitchen.

The bad news? It costs a whopping $1,000.

TechMagic’s robot stir-fry maker was wowing the hungry masses at CES. The mostly autonomous machine is huge and meant for restaurants. It turned out tasty stir-fry in under 2 minutes.

Samsung’s new Bespoke Smart Fridge can ID up to 33 items in your fridge and suggest recipes to make with them. It’ll even let you know when things are about to expire. How does it do it? AI, of course.

iGulu has its new home brewing system on display at CES. The iGulu F1 simplifies beer-making with automation that lets you know when each ingredient needs to be added. The whole process takes about two weeks to make a hoppy IPA, creamy stout or citrus wheat bear.

My expectations were tempered for the Barsys 360 robot cocktail machine, but the Madras I sipped was excellent. The Barsys 360 has six receptacles to pour booze, juice and other mixers. An app lets you know which cocktails you can make with the ingredients, and a special cup with paddles mixes up the drink for you.

This thing seemed to work well, and it looks pretty cool. We might need to haul one in for CNET’s next office happy hour.

Reencle showed off its new microbe organic composter at CES 2024. The Gravity composter takes a cue from your gut. It uses microbes to turn food scraps into usable soil, whereas other smart composters rely on simple dehydration, Reencle’s founder told me.

We’re planning to test the Reencle Gravity this year to see if its lofty claims are true. 

This stylish bag uses battery-generated heat to keep food warm for up to 8 hours. The WillCook oven bag retails for $200 and comes in tan, black and brown.

The new Bello water infuser both purifies your H2O and adds a flavor punch such as lemon-matcha or mango. 

Your Brita could never…

This wasn’t ColdSnap‘s first appearance at CES, but the Keurig of ice cream makers is inching closer to consumer release. The brand says its machines, which make bowls of ice cream in under 2 minutes, will be ready to buy in 2025. 

Now, check out all the wackiest and most futuristic tech from CES 2024.

The Sevvy Smart Cooker puts a twist on microwave technology to make food similar to sous-vide in mere minutes. The tool uses AI-powered software to make sure that food is heated precisely and evenly. It’s not clear yet if Sevvy will bring the prototype to market or license its technology to larger appliance makers.