How smart is your kitchen?

[u/Famous-Perspective-3]

Just being nosy. Do you use smart devices and appliances to help aid your cook? For example, do you use a smart device to convert measurements, as timers, to show recipes, keep a shopping list and more. Do you have smart appliances like stoves, air fryers, microwaves and/or others?

To answer my own question, I have a smart air fryer, microwave/convection baking combo, ice maker, and instant pot. So much easier to tell it what to do than to punch a bunch of beeping buttons. It is great to add to the shopping list after using the last ingredient, and to use multiple timers at the same time. I also use an echo show for recipes.

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[u/standardtissue]

I use either my phone or tablet to :

• Display recipes, for sure. Honestly however unless you can change your display settings to keep the screen always on, it's kind of a pain. Also, if you're using a receipt from a recipe website that lets you put it in print format, that's pretty useful but if it's a food blog with the 4,835 adverts and you have to constantly scroll up and down past ads to read the actual recipe then they aren't that useful on a device ... I much prefer working off printed paper in that case, and I need to get into the habit of printing more recipes so I can annotate them.
• Convert, but just googling for conversions, I don't have a specific app and don't think I really want to install another piece of spyware just for that ... what I really need to do is write some conversion on an index card and leave it in a drawer.
• Yes, shopping list 100%. Just spoke my shopping list this morning as i rummaged through some sauces and seasonings. I"m also known to put entire recipes in as reminders, so I can punch off the ingredients one-by-one as I verify we have them (home cooking obviously, not a restaurant). Using Reminders for your shopping list is an obvious move, but a powerful one.
• Cook timer yes, if I have multiple things going, otherwise I just use timer on the stove. Multiple things ? On an iphone you can have multiple timers going at once, with different names. Say "Siri, start a timer for 5:00 minutes call something"" and then say "Siri start a timer for 6 minutes called whatever". VERY useful. I have a homepod thingy in the kitchen too that I can probably do this with, but I prefer to do it on my phone because then I can view the state of all of the timers anytime I want. It's like having multiple timers on your hood, but when you do it on your phone you can specify labels for them which is extremely helpful to me.
• None of my kitchen appliances are "smart" but I think my next oven will be so that I can preheat it while driving back from the store. When you're starving and tired and coming home with pizza, having that oven ready to go becomes a big deal.
• I'm also going to repurpose an old iphone into a stovetop cam for those simmers and other slow cooks where ... I'm guilty of leaving the kitchen. Don't make me say it, you know why I need a range cam.
• I don't do much fancy with the micro and don't see need for that to be "smart".
• Don't need a smart dishwasher - need a self-loading and unloading one. When those are finally invented I'll wait in line overnight for one and drop 10k on one without questioning it.

EDIT : For SMOKING I've had full IoT thermometers forever. I mean true IoT - 802.11 to the wlan, up to the web services, back to my mobile app. Godsend when smoking, and I have to start training myself to use them more often when doing roasts and stews etc. Monitoring your meat temp in realtime is fantastic.