Have you ever ever watched a meals scene on TV and thought, wow, I want I might cook dinner that at dwelling? Possibly it was the il timpano in “Large Night time,” or the meat bourguignon in “Julie & Julia.” No matter your show-inspired craving, you’re in luck — in case you purchase a 2025 Samsung TV, that’s.
Throughout its CES 2025 press convention in Las Vegas on Monday, Samsung introduced Samsung Meals, a brand new characteristic on its TVs that leverages the corporate’s AI processor to acknowledge meals in your display and discover a recipe for it.
If Samsung Meals sounds acquainted, that’s most likely as a result of the model has been round some time. Samsung purchased the meals app Whisk in 2019, and rebranded it to Samsung Meals in 2023. At present, the Samsung Meals app for iOS and Android, which affords instruments like a meal planner and AI-guided cooking steps, can even recommend recipes based mostly on an image — in case you fork over $7 monthly for the premium model.
The Samsung Meals expertise constructed for TV is a little more restricted in what it may possibly do, unsurprisingly. However along with recommending recipes based mostly on what it “sees,” Samsung Meals on TV can present the progress of grocery and takeout deliveries you place by means of the Samsung Meals cell app.
In a press launch, Samsung calls out the app’s capability to construct a buying listing for components based mostly on what’s in your fridge. “It’s really the final word AI sous chef,” the corporate boldly proclaims.
Samsung Meals’s screen-to-recipe instrument is intriguing. However we’ll should see if it lives as much as the advertising and marketing hype. Recipe app SideChef’s AI instrument to show photographs into recipes leaves one thing to be desired, and fashionable AI summarizers and chatbots like ChatGPT don’t carry out a lot better. (Glue pizza, anybody?)
Then there’s the truth that AI received’t do the precise cooking for you. As somebody who’s too lazy to meal prep lately, a lot much less cook dinner an as-seen-on-TV dish, that’s most likely a dealbreaker. But when baking the kouign amann from “The Nice British Bake Off” floats your boat, these could be the TVs for you.
You’ll discover Samsung Meals on Samsung’s upcoming QN90F, QN80F, and QN70F fashions.
