The platform is looking to digitally record the world’s best chefs and encode their expertise into software that will enable teams around the world to recreate their food without specific training.
Specially created ‘capture kitchens’ are fitted with a range of sensors and cameras that closely monitor chefs as they cook. As the chef works through the dish, data on everything from the temperature of a protein to the amount of moisture lost as a sauce reduces or the changes in colour as an ingredient fries is captured. It can later be played back via a machine-readable file – essentially a highly detailed recipe – that can be run in a CloudChef kitchen.
CloudChef kitchens feature appliances run by software which can receive instructions from the company’s playback files via an API. While software guides the cooking process, humans still have a significant role to play moving ingredients around the kitchen and plating up. CloudChef founder NiaAbraham describes the process as a ‘co-biotic’ relationship between robots and people.
While the company is still at an early stage, there is huge potential for ghost kitchens around the world, not to mention licensing opportunities for celebrity and Michelin-starred chefs, who earn royalties every time one of their dishes is recreated.
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