I would love to have a dedicated computer to use in the kitchen. Usually if I'm testing a new recipe from one of my favorite food blogs or websites I sit my laptop on the counter and toss a towel over the keyboard to keep it safe from spills or other kitchen mishaps. A French company decided to capitalize on the kitchen computer idea and just introduced the Qooq (warning: the site is in French), a new type of computer specifically designed to use in the kitchen.
The Qooq (pronounced "cook") features an easily-cleaned glass touch screen and comes preloaded with 500 recipes and 10 chef-provided recipe videos. It costs $515 for the device and initial recipes, monthly updates are available for $20. One downside: there isn't a web browser, so recipes are limited to those loaded onto the device — therefore, sadly no Internet browsing for recipes. I love this idea, but right now it's only available in French — time to dust off my class notes from college!
Would you buy a dedicated kitchen cooking device, or do you prefer to use your home computer?
Levi's
i can't justify the cost of yet another device when i already have an iPod Touch and a laptop, both of which would work for this purpose.
1Umm for that much I would just bring my laptop and keep it connected to the food network website.
2I have been thinking about getting a kitchen computer, but no browser, no thank you. . . . I am planning to put in an eeeTouch, and then I can put in whatever recipes I want. It's one thing to have a dedicated kitchen computer, but not being able to do anything else with it would be a pain.
3It looks cool, but it kind of sounds like it's just an electronic cookbook.
4This is a cool idea, but it definitely needs a browser. I'm betting we'll see more of this type of thing as time goes on. Very interesting!
5I wanted something similar for watching cooking shows and having recipes up. I found a used mac mini for a couple hundred bucks, and mounted a cheap LCD monitor on the wall and I have a computer in the kitchen. The keyboard is wireless so it can be kept away from getting spilled on. Since it's a full computer I can watch the cooking shows on the Food Network, and Hulu and I can search recipes.
6Wouldn't a Chumby be cheaper and easier? And give you music to cook by?
7A Chumby would definitely be cuter.
8I bring my laptop into the kitchen. I'd like to get some kind of stand for it so it sits up a bit higher.
9That's awesome. This is definitely my sort of gadget.
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