Only the contents of the pot become hot. The Smart Kitchen Better appliances are only the beginning. The screen is then able to guide you through a recipe. Eventually, you could simply ask your kitchen what you have in the pantry. As kitchen technology shoots into the future, it's not going to leave food that far behind.
Breakthroughs are about to change the mundane chore of grocery shopping, too.
Supermarket checkouts could be streamlined with produce scanners that use optic technology similar to a photocopier. The scanner would recognize and price the fruits and vegetables you put down. New refrigerators will have an internal computer that scans the food you need and orders it over the Internet. When I am low on milk, the milk carton itself will announce that I am almost empty and add itself to the shopping list. Home guru Martha Stewart, however, has a word of caution about technology.