Warrington, UK
Cuisine Machine is a revolutionary cooking device, designed by Iain McCall and Matthew Langford, along with a team of product designers and Subina Shami, that has the features of a pressure cooker but can introduce various ingredients while cooking.
The initial idea was of Subina Shami, a working mother who wants to continue cooking healthy, high-quality food using fresh ingredients but wants an appliance to do all the work for her.
Langford’s design has been recently awarded a 2021 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Upon researching the market she found that existing cooking gadgets do not automatically introduce ingredients during cooking.
The temperature and timer in these appliances have to be continually adjusted when tougher ingredients such as meat are added, which need to be cooked longer than vegetables.
4D Products were tasked with bringing Subina’s vision to life by creating an intelligent kitchen appliance that cooks itself by automatically introducing all varieties of ingredients at predetermined intervals and at the right temperature, just like a professional chef.
The result is Cuisine Machine, a fully automated patent-pending countertop appliance that cooks various recipes using pre-programmed Electronic Recipe Cards.
These cards carry ingredient lists and recipe instructions that are read using smart card technology.
The user selects a recipe, loads the ingredients into the ingredient containers, and initiates the cooking process.
The appliance then starts following the programmed instructions that indicate when to heat the cooking bowl, when to open the ingredient containers and introduce the ingredients into the cooking bowl, when to add water/stock and when to activate the stirrer.
The appliance controls temperature and knows the exact length of time every ingredient needs to cook before the next one is added, stirring intermittently in a pressurized environment, similar to a pressure cooker.
Project: Cuisine Machine
Designers: Iain McCall and Matthew Langford, 4D Products Ltd. and Subina Shami
Electronics Designers: Danton Products Solutions
Manufacturer: Cuisine Machine Limited
