Samsung’s bespoke AI oven has a trick up its sleeve, which is what its name hints at: The company says you can put food in it, and it’ll automatically recognize what you’re asking it to cook and the right temperature, time and recommend mode. Part of his cleverness even includes “fire detection”, according to a press releasewith EU models that can warn you that your food is overcooked.
The built-in oven can recognize ’80 different dishes and ingredients’ via an internal camera, but you can also use a 7-inch touchscreen to manually adjust settings and check the status of your cook. The company notes that the European model is able to recognize 106 dishes. Given that it lists fire detection as an EU specific feature in a footnote, it sounds like you want to check what features the oven has in your area. before you pick it up.
Livestream your croissants’ path to crispiness straight from your oven
That internal camera isn’t just for the AI to use. Samsung says you can even live stream the view from your oven to social media (the company’s factsheet says this is “great for content creators and avid chefs who want to share their dishes”), take photos of your eat as it cooks, or simply use it to check on your baking without having to open the oven door.
By the way, if you’re like me wondering how you’d do that given the lack of a handle, the answer is that it’s push-to-open. I’d certainly have reservations about the reliability of that kind of mechanism, but more importantly, I’m not sure where Samsung expects you to hang an essential (but admittedly not aesthetically pleasing) kitchen towel.
The custom AI oven has several modes, according to Samsung, including air fryer, steam cooking, dual temperature zones and even something called “air sous vide.”
While this isn’t the first oven to promise to recognize and cook your food, the June Oven did something similar in a countertop form factor, and others companies like Bosch working on their own AI ovens – Samsung has the power of an ecosystem and a brand that consumers recognize. The company says you can connect it to Wi-Fi and use the SmartThings Cooking platform to set timers, preheat the oven and watch the camera stream from your phone. It also integrates with Samsung Health to “analyze users’ exercise stats and diet goals to recommend meal options.”
The company says the oven will launch in the US and EU in the third quarter of 2023, but there’s no word yet on pricing.
