It’s the last day of CES 2024 and the most surprising products stand out from the crowd. On the stalls at the American show, it is possible to come across the Perfecta, a barbecue powered by artificial intelligence.
AI is definitely the trend of 2024 at CES. Whether in cars, computers, the fridges or even… barbecues. Helping you cook your most beautiful chipolatas or your most beautiful eggplants thanks to the prowess of artificial intelligence, this is the promise of the company Seergrills which presented its Perfecta, a crazy accessory designed to assist you in your most beautiful grills .
Express cooking
At first glance, the Perfecta looks like a transparent oven on which a smartphone has been stuck. His promise? Cook a steak in 90 seconds and all your other foods 10 times faster than competing appliances (and your good old charcoal Weber). On its site, the company promises that the accessory is capable of “cook everything in 3 minutes or less“.
To do this, the Perfecta uses a series of toaster-style resistances which can raise the temperature up to 900° Celsius. Seergrills also promises perfectly even cooking thanks to 360° heat. Then simply indicate the type of food and the desired cooking on the control screen and the Perfecta will take care of everything thanks to “the AI algorithm and sensors» present in the device.
Smart cooking for $3,500
If the company promises that the Perfecta will be your “AI-boosted personal chef» in essence, the machine seems to offer nothing more than any smart oven or food processor with preloaded recipes. The only concrete advantage mentioned by Seergrills on its site is the possibility of “optimize food cooking profiles to achieve significant energy and money savings.“. Difficult to see what AI brings in addition to any Thermomix capable of doing the same thing, apart from a good layer of futuristic marketing.
Whether you are a barbecue purist or simply a technophile, you will have to be wealthy to afford the Perfecta since the machine costs a whopping $3,500. Sum to which must be added the price of the gas bottles necessary for the cooking operation as well as the electricity required to power the “AI” present in the device. A bill a bit higher than a bag of charcoal.
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