It can also alert you when your steak is perfectly medium-rare.

Best of all, it can do all this while providing nice background music for your kitchen endeavors.

While these gadgets won’t actually portion out the ingredients, they keep you informed in real-time.

Supermechanical Range meat probe thermometer

Supermechanical

Connected scales work with a companion iPad app that serves as the display.

The scale measures how much the ingredient weighs and sends that information to the iPad.

Connected thermometers keep track of steaks or pork shoulders without constantly hovering over the grill to check it.

The Cosmonaut iPad stylus

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Some examples include:

These thermometer tips don’t always extend to the oven.

It becomes more useful if you get it a stand.

A stylus lets you manipulate the screen without touching it with your finger.

Picking out a stylus for the kitchen is different than picking one for drawing.

But here are some apps to look for.