GUIDED COOKING
Touchscreen recipes
It will launch first in China and the US, with Europe to follow, but Bosch’s PAI will project an interactive screen onto any surface. Forget food-encrusted tablets in the kitchen. ‘It’s quite futuristic,’ says Filipe Oliveira, a home electronics analyst at consultancy Futuresource. ‘It projects recipe instructions and you interact with it by touching images that are projected.’ New Electrolux appliances integrated with Sony Mobile’s interactive projector, Xperia Touch, will offer a similar experience. Think Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
App-connected cooking
A recipe-packed a pp that connects to temperature sensors in its pan san dan ultra-responsive induction hob, the Hestan Cue system (hestancue.com, UK launch, mid-2019) will guide you through each step of a recipe, automatically adjusting to the right temperature as you go.
No-boil-over pans
AEG’S new Sensecook induction hobs use sensors accurate to within 1C to adjust the temperature in your pans as you cook. Select foods from the touchscreen and Sensefry will pan-fry them to your specification (from around £899, aeg.co.uk), or with Senseboil, ensure the pan never boils over. The latter launches in the UK in April.
The Pantri app will allow you to re-order groceries instantly from any store – and by monitoring appliances, automated re-ordering will be the eventual outcome