Have you ever watched a food scene on TV and thought, wow? Want to cook at home? Maybe il timpano in “Big Night” or beef bourguignon in “Julie & Julia.” Regardless of your passionate displays. Good luck buying a 2025 Samsung TV.
At the CES 2025 press conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Samsung announced Samsung Food, a new feature on its TVs that uses the company's AI processor to recognize the food on your screen and find a recipe for it.
If Samsung Food looks familiar, it does. Maybe because the brand has been around for a long time. Samsung bought In 2019, with the food app Whisk Relabeled. Bringing it to Samsung Food in 2023. Today, The Samsung Food app, which offers tools like a meal planner and AI recipes for iOS and Android, can suggest recipes based on photos — if you spend $7 a month or more. Premium version.
The built-for-TV Samsung Food experience is surprisingly a bit more limited in what it can do. But in addition to recommending recipes “based on what you see,” Through the Samsung Food mobile app, Samsung Food on TV can show you the progress of your grocery and order items.
In an announcement, Samsung touted the app's ability to create a shopping list based on the ingredients in your fridge. “This is truly the ultimate AI cooking chef,” the company boldly proclaims.
Samsung Food's on-screen recipe tool is fantastic. But whether it lives up to the marketing hype remains to be seen. SideChef's AI tool to turn photos into recipes Leave something to be desired.and popular AI summaries and chatbots like ChatGPT Don't make it much better.. (Copycat pizzawho?)
Then there's the fact that the AI won't actually do the cooking for you. As someone who is too lazy to prepare meals these days, cooking recipes as seen on TV can be a trade-off. But if the kouign amann pastry from “The Great British Bake Off” floats your boat. These will be the TVs for you.
Samsung's upcoming QN90F; You'll find Samsung Food on the QN80F and QN70F models.