Five tech tools to improve your kitchen

Get ready to up your chef game with minimal effort with our favorite new techy kitchen gadgets. Tasks that once took hours, days and even weeks can now be accomplished with as little as a touch of a button (along with a quick app download).

is the smallest device of its kind, and gives cooks the ability to consistently produce perfect medium-rare steaks using a process in which food is vacuum sealed and cooked in a temperature-controlled water bath.

The Plum

serves as a wine preserver and home sommelier, keeping standard 750-milliliter bottles fresh for up to 90 days at each bottle’s perfect serving temperature. Access information about a bottle in the Plum, which scans labels with its camera and provides details about the wine from its extensive database through your smartphone.

Drop Connected Kitchen Scale

provides the smart scale’s users with hundreds of interactive recipes with step-by-step directions, and also offers handy chef’s tools including suggestions for substitute ingredients and recipe rescaling.

Hestan Cue

Never play a guessing game again when choosing a cooking temperature on your stovetop with the