Smart oven designed with one purpose: baking you warm, fresh cookies
If using the oven for anything other than shrinky dinks is a little daunting, it's probably been awhile since you've enjoyed fresh cookies warm from the oven.
The CHiP smart cookie oven may be your excuse to get back into the kitchen.
This special cookie oven bakes up to four cookies at a time, works with your own dough or their cookie "pods," has Wi-Fi capability and can send personalized "cookie grams" as you eat. It even has a delay start mode so you can walk into the house after a long day at work to the aroma of freshly baked cookies.
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CEO Kevin Yu tells Mashable, "We realized we wanted a device that made what we love easily, conveniently, and to perfection. We then re-imagined the best type of device that would be needed to accomplish this one specific task, explored what that would take, and realized all the pieces were right there in front of us."
The machine operates with the SideChef app, which helps amateur (or advanced) chefs with recipes, tutorials, timers and other handy kitchen helpers. Customize cookies to your liking with chewy, classic or crispy settings.
CHiP is currently available on Kickstarter through the month of November and while early birds can get a CHiP for a $99 pledge, the machine will retail for $144 when it hits the market.
Dough pods (the company is currently experimenting with biodegradable packaging) includes flavors like Power Protein Breakfast, Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin and Peanut Butter Nutella Swirl. The pods will be sold both in packs of four (ranging from $5 to $9) and by subscription service (a three-month subscription with 16 cookies per month ranges from $16 to $32).
Yu says though the focus is currently on cookies, he sees room for other products. Could this mean homemade biscuits, muffins and popovers in the future?
We can only watch, wait and drool.
Sarah Spigelman Richter is a contributor to Mashable's Food channel. Sarah covers everything edible, from the food industry to D.I.Y. recipes. She was previously the community manager for Tastemade NYC and her writing has been seen on The Today Show's food blog, Refinery 29, the Food Network, and Gothamist. She has also developed recipes for Tabasco and other nationally recognized brands and has blogged for 5 years at "Fritos and Foie Gras." Sarah is obsessed with "Orphan Black" and chili-cheese Fritos and is still depressed that Loehmann's closed.
