SAN FRANCISCO, CA and DUBLIN, IRELAND--(Marketwired - Aug 31, 2016) - Smart kitchen company Drop, today announced it is integrating its kitchen operating system with home appliances from Bosch with Home Connect functionality. This partnership between Drop and Bosch combines an interactive cookbook layer for the smart kitchen with Europe's leading kitchen appliances brand, bringing a new layer of intelligence to the kitchen that will help home cooks of all levels enjoy a seamless, interactive cooking experience. The integration allows home cooks to control their Bosch Series 8 oven with Home Connect remotely, monitoring time, temperature and settings from within the Drop Recipes app available starting today.
Drop has given the 1,000-year-old recipe format a state of the art facelift, making it into a machine-readable format that can now be relayed to appliances across the kitchen. This makes every recipe an intuitive, interactive, step-by-step cooking experience.
"We're excited to officially announce that we are partnering with Bosch to truly make the connected kitchen a reality for everyone," said Ben Harris, CEO of Drop. "Imagine your blender knowing how much of an ingredient you need to add to get the right proportions for your favorite smoothie, or your oven preheating at the right time for the recipe you are making and turning off when your food is ready, or even being able to filter your recipes by what you have in your smart fridge. These ideas no longer seem fantastical. Your kitchen will be smarter, and we are excited to announce Bosch as our first partner and take this giant leap forward to being the Kitchen platform."
"Bosch appliances are designed and developed to be surprisingly simple solutions. We feel that the delightful experience that Drop has created is very much in that vein," said Johannes Müller, Head of Global Brand Communication of Bosch Home Appliances. "By adding the intuitive recipe experience that Drop has created to our products, it will allow us to continue to drive product innovation forward and make cooking a truly stress-free and seamless experience."
Bosch home appliances provides precision technology and European design that simplifies life in every kitchen -- from the growing trend of small kitchens and secondary spaces, to the modern kitchen in single and multi-family homes. With Drop, users of all skill levels can enter the kitchen inspired, confident, and ready to cook food that they will be proud to share. The partnership is truly the easy way to perfect results.
Drop's Connected Kitchen Scale is available for $79.99 and can be purchased online directly through the website getdrop.com, Amazon and Apple Stores in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.