Recipe video service also delivers ingredients to the door
While not everyone can cook like a top chef, innovations such as Restolib‘s professional kitchen lessons have helped pave the way. Now Chefday is also tapping celebrity cuisine talent to offer recipes to everyday chefs, as well as the option to have all of the required ingredients delivered to the user’s house. READ MORE…
Single-use cooking pot is made of lightweight biodegradable paper
Hot on the heels of the Kuru-Kuru Nabe, a self-stirring saucepan which cooks its contents more efficiently, we’ve spotted another innovation that makes it easier to heat up food when outdoors. The HEXA POT is made out of lightweight biodegradable paper material that can withstand the heat of a cooker. READ MORE…
Cooking stove operated remotely by text message
We’ve already seen efforts to bring home appliances into the 21st century, with NXP Semiconductors’ GreenChip system for controlling lights via a smartphone. Now aiming to make rushing back home when you’ve realized the stove is still on a thing of the past, the AGA iTotal Control uses cell phone connectivity to enable users to control it from a remote location. READ MORE…
Self-stirring saucepan cooks more efficiently
It’s been a few months since we’ve covered a new innovation from the world of cooking, but recently a particularly intriguing one caught our eye. Kuru-Kuru Nabe is a new saucepan design with spirally molded sides that not only allow contents to cook more efficiently, but they also enable the pan to “stir” itself. READ MORE…
Paris restaurant invites an amateur cook to become head chef each night
France is a country renowned for its culinary tradition, yet these traditions show no sign of standing in the way of innovation. We recently saw Restolib turn Paris restaurant kitchens into spaces for cooking classes after hours, and now Un Jour, Un Chef is going one step further and allowing amateurs to realise their dreams of becoming head chef for one night. READ MORE…
Insulated bag enables low-carbon cooking via heat retention
Cooking is a major source of carbon pollution in the developing world, inspiring the innovation of carbon-negative alternatives such as the LuciaStove from Rwandan Inyenyeri. Offering a different approach to the problem, the Wonderbag is an insulated device that greatly reduces fuel use by enabling cooking via heat retention. READ MORE…
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Pop-up restaurant uses only solar energy for cooking
We’ve seen solar energy used to power a number of innovations featured on our virtual pages, including a UK-based micro-cinema on wheels. Now we’ve discovered the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, a pop-up venture which uses only the energy of the sun to cook food. READ MORE…
As celebrity chefs and cooking at home have been come popular over recent years, a new market of budding amateur foodies has emerged. While apps and blogs can share professional and personal tips to create international dishes, Culture Kitchen in San Francisco goes a step further by connecting local food lovers to immigrant women who teach them to cook authentic, ethnic cuisine as well as sharing their cultural background. READ MORE…Social enterprise employs immigrants to teach cooking classes and culture
