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Tovala Debuts 5-in-1 Air Fryer, Its First Non-Steam Countertop Appliance
This week Tovala debuted a new countertop cooking appliance, the multifunction Tovala Smart Oven Air Fryer. The new appliance is the first new hardware from the company since it unveiled the second-generation smart steam oven in 2018. Some readers may be thinking, ‘wait, didn’t Tovala release an air fryer last...
Mill Nabs First Municipal Pilot in Partnership With the City of Tacoma
Mill, a startup that makes a home food waste management appliance that turns food scraps into chicken feed, has captured its first municipal pilot in a partnership with Tacoma, Washington, the company announced this week. The company partnered with the city of Tacoma to launch a pilot program that uses...
Meta Wants Your AR-Powered Ray Bans to Remind You to Buy Milk
We’ve covered augmented reality tech that helps you cook in your home kitchen or visualize items in a food court, but what about reminding you to buy milk or eggs at the grocery store?. That’s a scenario Facebook parent Meta describes in a new patent awarded to the company...
Nine Food Tech Startups Join Forces to Create the Precision Fermentation Alliance
Today nine companies in the precision fermentation industry have announced they have established the Precision Fermentation Alliance, a new trade organization aimed at promoting precision fermentation as a trusted solution for a more sustainable and resilient food system. The group says it will act as “an industry voice and global convener for the precision fermentation industry”, and ” champion precision fermentation as a trusted solution for a more resilient and sustainable food system.”
Breadwinner Launches Presale for Its Sensor-Powered Sourdough Starter Monitoring Tool
If you thought sourdough mania ended when the pandemic wound down, it’s worth scanning social media to realize nothing is further from the truth. The groups and rosters of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram overflow with topics as diverse as “Sourdough Starters – Sourdough Support Group,” “Sourdough Geeks,” and “Sourdough Bread Bakers India.”
The Latest, But Not The First: Five Ways AI Altered The Food Industry Before ChatGPT
Generative AI has shaken the tech industry to its foundations. For the first time, Google’s search dominance looks vulnerable, while ChatGPT has elevated Microsoft’s Bing from second banana to sexy beta. Meanwhile, hundreds of new startups are creating vertically-focused SaaS offerings powered by OpenAI, and tech corporations, big and small, are evaluating how to jump on the generative AI bullet train.
Podcast: How Will We Feed Astronauts in Deep Space?
Up until now, every morsel of food an astronaut eats in space was created and packaged here on earth. However, as we embark on a new era of long-term space flight, NASA and other space agencies realize that will need to change. As the Senior Project Manager for Space Crop...
Sourdough Savior: A New Machine Keeps Your Starter Fresh and Alive
One of the byproducts of the COVID-19 pandemic was the rise (no pun intended) of sourdough baking. Quicker than you can say, “cabin fever,” a nation of wanna-be bakers turned their homes into warm and crusty boulangeries. Key to the process is what’s known as a sourdough starter, a mixture of flour and water that has been fermented by naturally occurring yeast and lactic acid bacteria.
CES Session: The Future of Farming (Video & Transcript)
At CES 2023, The Spoon produced a full-day conference on the future of food. Over the next couple of weeks, we'll feature the videos and transcripts from each session. The first session we will feature is titled ‘The Future of Farming’, a panel which featured experts on gene-edited crops, molecular farming, and vertical farming.
Estonia’s ÄIO Raises €1 Million to Make Alternative Fats Out of Sawdust
Estonian start-up ÄIO has raised €1 million ($1.2 million) to develop alternative oils and fats for the food industry. The biotechnology firm, founded by TalTech bioengineers Petri-Jaan Lahtvee and Nemailla Bonturi last year, aims to replace environmentally depleting oils such as coconut and palm oils with sustainable, full-value alternatives.
Meala Raises $1.9M to Create Functional Proteins From ‘Home Kitchen’ Ingredients
Israel–based start-up Meala FoodTech announced today it has secured $1.9m in pre-seed funding from investors. The company, which is focused on developing functional proteins from what it says will be clean and recognizable ingredients, received funding from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub (part of the Strauss-Group), and DSM Venturing, the corporate venture arm of Royal DSM. The funding will be used to continue developing Meala’s functional protein platform and move it from lab to pilot scale.
Doordash & Roku Want You to Order Dinner Before You Stream That Next Episode of ‘The Last of Us’
Want to order dinner before watching that next episode of your favorite streaming series? Pick up your Roku remote, click on that special offer, and you’ll have piping hot food sitting in front of you before Ellie surprises or infuriates Joel once again. That’s the hope anyway for the...
CloudChef Wants to Capture a Chef’s Knowledge in Software to Recreate High-Quality Cuisine Anywhere
What if you could digitally record the best chefs in the world as they make their culinary masterpieces? And what if you took that knowledge and encoded it into software that enabled everyday kitchen workers across the globe to recreate these dishes without specialized training?. That’s the idea behind CloudChef,...
Podcast: 3D Printed Meat, Drone Delivery and Spy Balloons
This week’s guest for Food Tech Friday is long-time food tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Bodenheimer. Peter talks about his role at cultivated meat startup Steakholder Foods and what he’s building at Super Kingdom. Peter joins Carlos and Mike to talk about the food tech news of the...
Czech Startup Mewery Makes Cultivated Meat with Microalgae
Czech startup Mewery announced today they have created the world’s first cultivated meat prototype using microalgae according to a release sent to The Spoon. The company says it used a hybrid culture medium with microalgae extracts to create cultivated meat consisting of 75% pork and 25% microalgae cells. Why...
Standard AI Bridges Gap Between Autonomous & Self-Checkout With Acquisition of Skip
San Francisco-based company Standard AI has announced the acquisition of self-checkout solution provider Skip. The deal will combine Standard AI’s autonomous retail platform with Skip’s self-checkout technology, which they say will allow retailers to resolve labor challenges with a path toward autonomous checkout. Standard AI will integrate Skip’s cloud-based point-of-sale system with its back office technology post-acquisition, which Standard AI says will streamline operations and provide greater control over pricing and promotions.
New School Foods Swims Against the Current In Its Approach to Alternative Proteins
In business, the daring entrepreneurs zig when others zag. In the world of plant-based alternative proteins, Chris Bryson, CEO and founder of New School Foods, decided to zig his way into a new approach, introducing a new patented freezing process to create whole cuts of salmon. New School Foods, based...
Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants in Japan Will Soon Use a Fry-Cooking Robot
TechMagic, a Tokyo-based restaurant robotics startup, has signed a development deal with Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan to build a robot to automate the entire process of cooking french fries. According to company CEO Yuji Shiraki, preliminary testing of the TechMagic fry robots is complete and is the company is...
Make Alcohol From an Astronaut’s Breath? Yep. Here Are the Finalists For Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge
This week, NASA’s ability to keep astronauts fat and happy on a mission to Mars took another giant leap forward for mankind. That’s because the U.S. space agency, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced the 11 finalists for Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a competition designed to help explore and better understand how these agencies can feed humans in space.
Samsung Wants You to Put Generative Art on Your Refrigerator
Today Samsung launched a new line of custom refrigerator art produced by generative AI. According to Samsung, the new collection was created by Matt Jacobson, an artist who “uses computer code as his paintbrush.” Jacobson used computer algorithms to create 100 generative art prints designed for Bespoke refrigerators.
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