The future of cooking

By Fiona Keating on May 31st 2011

Brits love a good cook-along programme with Gordon Ramsay and James Martin leading the way but soon the celebrity chef will be phased out in favour of personal virtual culinary assistants who will be a permanent fixture in each of our homes in just five years time.

According to a new report by Comet, a welcome addition to help ease our busy lifestyles is the “virtual chef” which takes the form of a 3D virtual hologram, Comet predicts. The “virtual chef” will act as a human friend who will be constantly by our side to offer cooking advice, cookery technique demos and bespoke recipe suggestions in the comfort of our own kitchens. The British kitchen will change significantly in the next five years and become a much more exciting place to cook in. No longer will there be struggles to get cooking timings and measurements correct, the virtual chef will take the pressure off so we can focus on entertaining and relaxing. Gone will be the days of listening to Ainsley Harriet’s bad jokes or Nigella’s sultry suggestions, the “virtual chef” will only speak when spoken to.

The “intelligent fridge” will be a second addition to the kitchen of the future, programmed with technology to offer recipe and mealtime suggestions just by sensing what contents lie inside it. Comet predicts that the ‘intelligent fridge’ will have the ability to contact you on your way home from work and suggest a variety of options for your supper to save you a trip to the supermarket. By 2014, traditional recipe books will be a thing of the past as our kitchens will boast ‘electronic paper’ recipes and video demonstrations placed on walls or cupboards for our convenience.

Brits are more than ready for the arrival of these new future kitchen technologies with almost a third of those aged 20-24 eager to have robots cooking their dinner and 40% expecting our fridges to suggest recipes based on its contents.

The future of cooking

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