These Delicious Skewers Were Cooked Automatically On A Smart Grill
Lynx had a snazzy set-up in one of the hotels near the convention center.
Presenting, the smart grill!
You interact with the grill by speaking to it. For example, to get the grill started, you would say “Smart grill, preheat.”
From speakers underneath, in a Siri-esque voice, the grill tells me that it’s begun to preheat.
Meanwhile, I have some tasty food options to choose from.
The grill comes with 50 recipes built in, but you can also upload your own recipes into a database, as well as access the recipes of other users. (I picked the beef.)
The grill will tell you when it’s fully preheated, but you can also get a text message, in case you were hosting a get together and want to socialize away from the grill.
In addition, the grill has a companion app, which is a real-time updater of what’s going on with it. (For example, you can check how the temp of each burner.)
Next, you tell the grill what you want to make. “Cook, skewers,” my demonstrator told the grill.
The grill then preps, to get the temp to the optimal level for the specific dish, so by the time you throw your food on, you get a great sizzling sound.
“Would you like skewers prepared the same as last time?” the grill asks. It has a “learning module” that remembers how it cooked a particular food item before. So, if you thought the skewers were a little overcooked last time, you could adjust it by saying “subtract one minute.”
The grill then tells you which burner to place your food on, and how long it will be cooking each side for. Again, you can walk away during this time.
On a traditional grill, if you turned these front knobs they would control a mechanical valve right behind them that opens or closes to control the heat. On the smart grill, these nobs are connected by wire into a set of valves at the rear and at the bottom.
Jutting from the right side is the temperature probe that gives feedback to the machine about how hot the grill is, so that it can maintain the correct, constant temperature throughout the cooking cycle but adjusting those valves manually.
Each of the four burners can be controlled at different temperatures, so you could be grilling four different kinds of thing at once.
After instructing us once to flip our meat, the smart grill finished up my skewers.
These guys tasted just as delicious as they look.
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