Kitchen

​If you're a fan of Ethiopian cuisine, then you'll be familiar with injera – it's a large, round flatbread that everyone pulls pieces off of to scoop up the food. Making full-size injera can be challenging in a normal kitchen, which is why the Rose grill was invented.

Every year, businesses get in on the April Fool’s fun, attempting to trick us into believing they’ve either had a stroke of genius or the entire board of directors have gone stark raving mad, but now one of these pranks, the Razer Toaster, is becoming a reality.

Samsung has unveiled the latest Family Hub fridges at CES 2019, with the main new addition being a Family Board screen dedicated to posting photos and messages, and support for the latest version of the Bixby voice assistant.

The centerpiece of GE Appliances' announcements at CES this year is a smart home hub and rangehood combo. Called the Kitchen Hub, it's essentially a massive touchscreen that sits above your stove bringing together control of all your smart home appliances with Google Assistant built in.

Keurig is best known for popularizing the coffee pod machine, but realizing it’s always five o’clock somewhere, the company is now taking the concept out on the town with the Drinkworks Home Bar, which cooks up cocktails (or beer and cider, for some reason) from the same kind of premixed pods.

​When it comes to cooking in your oven, you simply set the temperature to the exact number required. For stove-top cooking, though, you have to estimate if the saucepan is at more or less the right temperature. PanPerfect offers a way of knowing exactly how hot it is.

A company called Brava is launching a countertop oven that cooks food quickly and thoroughly using visible and infrared light, and if you cut through the marketing faff it looks like there might just be a useful product hiding under there.

​If there's one thing that robots are good for, it's reducing costs by performing tasks that would otherwise go to human workers. That was part of the inspiration behind Spyce, a new budget-friendly fast food restaurant that has a robotized kitchen.

​​For thousands of years, any knife blade worth its salt has been forged from metal or steel, but Canadian design house Maison Milan has other ideas. It has crafted a wooden knife to carry out preparation duties in style, and can then be used to scoop up your chopped goods when you’re done. ​

While we have seen countertop dishwashers before, Heatworks' new Tetra is different. It's smaller than just about any other model, plus it's transparent and it doesn't need to be hooked up to a faucet – all that's required is an electrical outlet.

The kitchens is the heart of any home, and just like biological hearts they can sometimes benefit from some technological help. Thankfully there are plenty of smart people working on devices to provide that helping hand – here are a few that caught our eye in 2017.

Land Rover has prepared an extraordinary Discovery for Jamie Oliver that slow-cooks under the hood, churns butter and makes ice cream in the hubcaps, slow-turns a rotisserie out front and makes toast in the center console. Forget the drive-through restaurant – this is the driving restaurant kitchen.