#ai-cooking

#ai-cooking

Kitchen appliances don't usually stop me dead in my tracks at CES, but a grill that cooks with light instead of fire deserves at least a few minutes of attention, right?! Cozytime brought their LUMO optical grill to CES 2026, and the pitch sounds almost too convenient to be true: restaurant-quality char marks without smoke, 0.2-second heat-up instead of the usual 10-minute wait, and AI that scans your food to figure out cooking time automatically.

There are exactly three meal-prep foods that I have on rotation: shredded beef, shredded pork, and, you guessed it, shredded chicken. All of these involve exactly two steps: Putting spices on a meat, and putting that meat into a crockpot. Every other dinner is leftovers or sandwich meat. Author Don't say I haven't tried. During the pandemic, I went through a jerky phase. I've sampled most of the meal prep boxes.

Kitchen Cosmo fosters a co-creative relationship between user and machine, generating personalized recipes based on available ingredients and parameters like cooking time and mood.