This 'smart' kitchen recognizes the food in your fridge, creates recipes, and then cooks your meals

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There are two reasons why I don’t make ribs at home: The cooking process can take up to three hours, and I doubt I could make them as delicious as a trained chef.

But if I use the new oven from smart kitchen startup Innit, making gourmet ribs takes 40 minutes, and all I have to do is press a few buttons.

The technology aims to make cooking gourmet meals fast and efficient. Innit senses what's in your fridge, helps you decide on a recipe and then makes it for you based on algorithms that figure out the perfect way to cook any given food.

The secret sauce: facial recognition sensors and cameras located inside WiFi-enabled ovens and fridges, which connect to an app that controls the whole experience.

The app features thousands of recipes from publications like Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Good Housekeeping, and The New York Times. Once you choose a recipe, the app sends the cooking directions directly to the oven, which automatically follows them.

I recently had the chance to try out the technology and cook a slab of ribs. Here’s how it works.

I saw Innit’s technology at Pirch Soho, a 32,000-square-foot showroom for kitchen appliances in New York City. On May 23, Pirch will open to the public.

The hardware consists of a system of sensors and cameras. Facial recognition technology in the fridge can recognize specific foods, offer nutritional information, and suggest recipes that incorporate them.

The sensors were relatively accurate in my demo, but the foods need to face forward in line with the cameras.

The app lets you see the contents of your fridge from afar. This could come in handy when you’re thinking about what you need at the grocery store.