If there were no robots, our Indian kitchens are getting smarter and smarter. Just as we use the traditional cooking utensils handed down from our grandmother, we brought Wi-Fi and Alexa-enabled crock pots and blenders. Our modular kitchen has developed into an integrated space, with smart appliances embedded in the kitchen unit.
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Even the refrigerator is no longer just a space for food. These smart refrigerators cost slightly more than 2,000,000 rupees and can compile shopping lists, play videos, and even read news aloud. At the same time, Amazon's first home service robot, Astro, provides full-time monitoring, inspects the kitchen, and even throws pets their favorite food.
Smart apps (or i-apps) are part of this movement, which collect user data (such as usage patterns and setting preferences), allowing consumers to monitor their kitchens and household appliances with just a glance at their smartphones; we have This is seen in fully automatic washing machines, floor cleaners, sous vide equipment, wine aerators, refrigerators, ovens and roasters, exhaust systems and crock pots.
The kitchen of the future will also use 5G to help smart homes be safer while consuming less electricity. As a disadvantage, most smart homes in India use various connections, such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc. However, companies that make chips for our smart devices such as earthen jars and refrigerators want more secure (considering that connected homes may be hacked) and coordinated connections. However, in India, 5G adoption is very slow, so we may need to wait and see.
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But there is also optimism. "Indian kitchens have developed a lot to keep up with the times. Integrated kitchens that provide a more compact experience are becoming popular in India, especially among NRIs that invest in real estate in the country," the business of D Life, a home interior designer company Manager Anto Thomas said.
You can even use GPS to guide you around your own kitchen. Saakshi Jain and Rakesh Edavalath in Bangalore created Zelish, a kitchen assistant app that helps in everything from searching for recipes to sourcing ingredients, tracking groceries and automating shopping lists. The application even takes into account the user's nutritional needs and preferences.
The app was recently acquired by Tiny Chef of Canada, an artificial intelligence integrated voice-first platform that combines technology with daily kitchen needs such as planning, shopping, and cooking. According to its spokesperson, it was launched in India in 2019, joined by chef Sanjeev Kapoor, and currently has more than 120,000 monthly users in India.
“In most cases, what people find difficult is not cooking, but planning around it,” said Saakshi, who is currently the global chief marketing officer of Tiny Chef. “Almost everyone who has dealt with the kitchen at some point will have to deal with the problem of over-ordering groceries that seems to disappear in a black hole. In India, at least 6.4 million groceries are wasted,” she added.
When technology entrepreneur Bahubali Shete and his wife Asha Shete launched Tiny Chef in Canada in 2017, the idea was to revolutionize the kitchen experience by accessing recipes on Alexa devices and Google Home. Connect the app to the smart speaker so you don’t have to look at your phone while cooking. Users can ask for help at every step of the dish. If he or she runs out of an ingredient, he or she may ask Alexa to add it to the shopping cart. They said the Indian market’s response was very encouraging.
One of its features includes the option to record the voice of family members. Precious family recipes are therefore digitally recorded and added to the user's private collection, which can be further shared with other users. This will be recommended by Alexa to those users who have access to the recipe.
People can even use smart tandoor to prepare restaurant-style grilled food at home. Unlike the bulky traditional tandoor, it is compact and light, suitable for smart kitchen solutions. Wellberg's smart tandoor comes with automatic timer and automatic temperature control options, while Wonderchef's "gas oven tandoor" can be used as an oven or as an oven, making anything from cakes to kebabs.
Since its launch in India in 2017, smart appliances such as kitchen robots and Thermomix have attracted more and more people from mixing to cooking, chopping and kneading. Although in the first few days, inquiries came from professional chefs and hotels, there are now Yogesh Mathur, Marketing Manager of Thermomix Pocket Kitchen LLP in Bangalore, India, said that there are more inquiries from families across the country.
Sabita Radhakrishna, a cookbook author, social worker and food researcher in Chennai, says that it's not just young people who make kitchens smart. "For the elderly living alone, technology has changed the rules of the game. In cooking, I am a traditionalist. I also have 100-year-old kadais and kalchattis, which are perfectly functional and passed down to me by my mother. But I also embrace technology. I have moved the office to the dining table now, so my silent rice cooker really makes my work a lot easier," she said.
Although there are smart appliances in India, prices start from Rs 5,000. Some people prefer to make their existing home appliances smart. "Even if it is a simple function, such as boiling eggs, saving 12 minutes is a chore," said Aneez Ahamed, who uses a smart egg cooker at his home in Hyderabad. As a software project manager, he loves automation and constantly strives to make his equipment smart.
Smart plugs can be purchased online for less than Rs 1,000, allowing users to automate any wired home appliances via on/off switches. Aneez said, you can then control the "smart" device through your phone or voice commands.
Artificial intelligence still exists, even in our kitchen, we don't know where the smart movement will go next.
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