Here’s What Happens When You Merge a Skillet with Technology
Smart technology is permeating every inch of our lives, from thermostats that analyze our temperature preferences and configure the inside temperature to smart locks that open with the press of a button on our smartphones. Nothing is immune from the advancements of...
Sphere Your Foods: Why Experimenting with Food Presentation is fun
We spent a whole week last year talking about the Kitchen of the Future and what that might look like, from high-tech kitchen appliances to new-fangled clothing that helps wick away heat when you're moving and shaking in the kitchen. But this little device that we...
Big Data Analytics and Food Come Together At Flavourspace
Big Data Analytics and Food There are many interesting things happening in the world of Food and Technology including the application of Big Data Analytics to how we eat or could eat in the future. To get a better understanding of this tech, The Culinary Exchange was...
A New Innovation in Coffee: Multi Brew Coffee Brewers by Essense.
Meet Essense - A New Innovation In Coffee Brewers In the last few years coffee consumption has been increasing and the coffee drinkers are getting more and more demanding about their favorite beverage. Coffee culture is already huge and it has led to coffee achievers...
Kitchen Aid and The Future of Design
In just over a month, the popular design conference, Dwell on Design, will be held in New York City, where some of our favorite food brands will be exhibiting and showcasing new products. While we won't be able to attend, we were able to snag some face time with...
7 Amazing High-Tech Kitchen Gadgets
We recently spent a week talking about the Kitchen of the Future - how technology could completely change how we eat, how our environment could dictate what kinds of food we can grow, and what kitchen gadgets will look like in the future. In fact, we envisioned a...
Internet of Things, Meet the Kitchen.
If you've been even slightly paying attention to the news over the last twelve months, you're almost definitely been introduced to the term "Internet of Things". From smart door locks that can be unlocked from a phone app to connected kitchen scales that sync up to a...
Dinner is Served: Is Quorn, Soylent, and Lab Meat the Future of Food?
All week long we've been talking about what the Kitchen of the Future might look like - what types of chefwear we'll be standard issue, how science might expand our food options, and how seemingly unrelated insects play a HUGE role in the economics of food. What we...
How The Bee Will Determine The Future of the Food Ecosystem
You may have noticed something over the last several years worth of summers - a certain lack of buzz as the weather gets warmer and flowers begin to bloom. If you take honey in your tea, you may have felt that deafening silence at the grocery, where the price of honey...
The Future of Chefware: A Fashionista In The Kitchen
Roberta Donato is a Brazilian apparel designer, with 6+ years experience in the action sports and high-end swimwear industry and is an avid lover of ‘smart fabrics’. Having lived in places such as London, Sydney, Rio and California she is able to be...
Innovation Spotlight: 6 Examples of Innovative Food Packaging
If you're like most people, food packaging is probably one of those things that you don't really ever think about until you see something really unique. Whether it's something a bit avant garde like the edible packaging we talked about a few weeks back or something a...
Food Industry News: Kitchen Automation Trends That Are Transforming Cooking
First, there was industrial automation which took complex machinery and put it on factory lines to make manufacturing more streamlined and safe. Then came warehouse automation and robots that took care of some of the more complex requirements of logistics. Next, we...
Food Technology Spotlight: Edible Packaging? I’ll Pass.
There's been a lot of headway made in food technology. From 3D printed food to futuristic kitchen robots that automate some of the more routine aspects of cooking, the last 50 years have brought us closer to the kitchen of the future. And for the most part, it's...
Food Innovation: What Is Sous Vide and Why is it a Better Way to Cook?
Sous vide cooking has experienced a sort of renaissance as of late with the invention of personalized sous vide machines that make the decades old process of precision cooking much more doable for the common cook. Sous vide cooking wasn't used in a restaurant setting...
Food Innovation Spotlight: Laser-cut Pie, Anyone?
Pie decoration is getting a face lift thanks to technology. Interestingly enough, the guys over at Quirky found a new way to create intricate designs and images on food through a laser technology commonly used to create packaging prototypes and mock-ups. It's the...
Is the Future Full of 3D Printed Food?
Last week, we wrote an article about Foodini - a 3D printer for food - and how it's poised to completely upset the natural order of the kitchen. It's a technology that will not only have major implications for consumer food products, but also commercial and even home...
Food Industry News: 3D Printed Food with Foodini
Exciting news: playing with your food is no longer just relegated to children. Adults have the option now too, with the recent innovations in food technology. According to a recent CNN article, the 3D printing trend has been extended to the food industry with a new...
Innovation Series Part 6: Iteration-Tweak, Re-do, Perfect
Welcome back to the Be A Kitchen Innovator blog series on The Knickerbocker Glory! This is the sixth post in the series that will discuss Iteration. I hope you find it useful. Iteration - Tweak, Re-Do, Perfect In the first, second, third, fourth and fifth posts of...
Innovation Series Part 5: Bringing Ideas to Life!
Welcome back to the Be A Kitchen Innovator blog series on The Knickerbocker Glory! This is the fifth post in the series that will discuss Bringing Ideas to Life. I hope you find it useful. Bringing Ideas to Life In the first, second, third and fourth posts of this...
Innovation Series Part 4: Generating New Ideas
Welcome back to the Be A Kitchen Innovator blog series on The Knickerbocker Glory! This is the fourth post in the series that will discuss Idea Generation. I hope you find it useful. Generating New Ideas In the first, second and third posts of this series we talked...
Innovation Series Part 3 – Creating Themes
Welcome back to the Be A Kitchen Innovator blog series on The Knickerbocker Glory! This is the third post in the series that will discuss the creation of opportunity areas from which new ideas will be created. I hope you find it useful. Creating Themes and Opportunity...
Innovation Series Part 2 – Finding Inspiration
Welcome back to the Be A Kitchen Innovator blog series on The Knickerbocker Glory! This is the second post in the series that will discuss finding new inspiration for your innovation efforts. I hope you enjoy. Inspiration and Stimulus. In part 1 of this series we...
Innovation Series Part 1- Stating Your Purpose
Welcome to the Be a Kitchen Innovator Blog Series on The Knickerbocker Glory. This post is the first post in the series and covers the all important first step of innovation - writing a statement of purpose. The post will explore creating a statement of purpose and...
Re-inventing the Classics = Great Innovation!
Often times innovation is confused with invention. They are actually quite different things. Invention is creating something that did not exist before and innovation is typically the re-invention of something that has been around for quite some time. Re-invention can...
The New Book About Culinary Innovation
The early reviews are in and they are very positive for a great book about culinary innovation! You are certain to create great WOW moments with this book! The Early Reviews ☆☆☆☆ ...It is not an easy thing to teach someone to think in a different way, "outside the...
From Different Perspectives Comes Innovation
Creating Something New. If we want to create something new we need information from which to build new ideas. Some of the simplest information we can use to create something new in cooking is cultural information. Simply learning about different cuisines gives us new...
Small Changes, Big Innovations
When innovating we do not need to always be thinking about the disruptive, earth shattering innovations. Even small innovations in unexpected places can lead to new and better experiences. Take the recent study in the journal Flavour The Taste of Cutlery: How the...
Innovation In Action – 11 Madison Park
The best part of any innovation process is seeing something new. When we see a new idea come to life and we say "WOW"! It does not have to be something absolutely new. A re-invention of what already exists is equally interesting. This is happening all around us and...
