20 Smart Kitchen Appliances That'll Up Your Chef Game (2024)

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14 cooking functions, united under one lid. God bless Ninja! It packs every cooking method imaginable, from air-frying to yogurt-making, in just one pressure cooker. It's the kitchen appliance that'll rid you of the need for another kitchen appliance—not even a gadget like smart thermometer, because it's already equipped with one.

$130 at Bed Bath & Beyond

Air fryers are all the rage, and are as dandy as they are easy to operate. But Cosori's newer-gen, smarter air fryer takes the limelight; it churns out meals that simply is better—i.e., faster and crispier—through professional cooking mechanisms that you won't need to bother learning. It's also remote-controllable via voice assistant and app.

$400 at Williams Sonoma $400 at Bed Bath & Beyond

Pretty much every appliance in Breville's hoard is smart as a whip. Its smart air fryer oven can cook up a storm with 13 preset functions. Then, there's the Element IQ system that uses an algorithm of temperature and control to direct the heat to where and when it's needed—no cold spot is spared. To wit, you can rest assure that whatever comes out of this oven will be a Turkish delight.

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Paired with steam tech and heat control, Balmuda's toaster oven for anything involving searing bread—sandwich, pizza, pastry, croissant, bagel, etc.—can make the surface crispy while keeping the inner aromatic and juicy. That’s some seriously heavenly-bite stuff to have at the kitchen counter.

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Musui–Kamado brings time-honored craftsmanship and tech headway together—the poetry of cast iron cooking and the efficiency of induction cooking. Think of Musui–Kamado as a cast iron oven inside an induction cooker—which it basically is. You know what that means: Faster heating, safer handling, less energy consumption, and better heat retention brought to life in one apparatus.

$350 at Williams Sonoma $350 at Bloomingdale's

If something has gone viral on TikTok, it's probably worth a buy. And we'll be damned if a smart toaster with a touch screen, first of its kind, hasn't gone viral yet. It toasts supersonically without drying the bread, and senses what kind of bread—bagels, waffles, muffins, Pop-Tarts...—is being toasted.

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If machines one day were to replace human labor, this Esquire Gadget Awards winner will likely lead that charge. RIP to all baristas, you'll be remembered well—after we pull a good shot or make a good cup from this fully automatic espresso machine, that is. Its screen will walk you through every step, including mighty customizable areas like pH levels, caffeine strength, or grind.

$230 at Bed Bath & Beyond

CREAMi is a no-holds-barred spice bomb of an ice cream maker—having it at home is the equivalent of getting your own Häagen-Dazs factory or Amorino counter. If that doesn't sound sweet enough, consider the smoothie bowls, milkshakes, and sorbets—in your own flavor, with your own toppings—you can make out of it.

$400 at Williams Sonoma $400 at Amazon

Vitamix's composter might not be intrinsically smart; it won't automatically determine what your food waste should be broken down and turned into—diamond? Platinum? Vibranium? But having it to reduce food scraps into fertilizers at a tenth of their original volume, while doing so quietly, does sound like a smart way of life you should adapt.

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Few home drink mixer machines allow you to add the spirit of your own choice to co*cktail capsules, but the Bartesian—as close to mechanizing home bartending as we can get—says "screw that". It allows you to pick your capsules, and your own top-shelf liquor, and whip up concoctions so good they make waiting in a long line outside award-winning bars no longer your Friday night ritual.

$170 at Breville $170 at Amazon

In another ode to Breville's own league of state-of-the-art-looking appliances, here's a smart tea infuser for those with their own Sunday high-tea time. It knows the right temperature and steep time to bring out the aroma of your leaves, with five presets to make juggling around the buttons and numbers much easier.

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For a pitcher, this Esquire Gadget Awards winner is a splurge, but it does not play when it comes to gratifying water drinkers—so, anyone?—with the most clean-tasting, contaminant-free aqua possible, courtesy of its dual-filtration system.