GADGET GURU
T3’s ever ripe tech expert feeds us more tasty knowledge morsels
The annual foodstuffs sports day was about to get underway
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Q OLLIE BENNETT, VIA EMAIL
My food is constantly going out of date. Help, Guru!
A Oh, yeah, because Guru knows exactly what’s in your fridge. He does, of course, because he’s constantly round yours having a snoop about, but that’s very much beside the point. You’re going to have to manage this yourself.
You could start by cutting down on takeaways and actually cooking that food, how about that? Guru also endorses the timeless trick of keeping a Sharpie in the fridge and using it to write a bold expiry date on everything as it comes in.
If it’s really a question of keeping track of it with tech, though, you’ve got a few options. Although the idea of a smart fridge turns Guru’s stomach about as much as your year-old courgette, this is one place where there’s value to be found; Samsung’s the king, of course, and its Family Hub function can help you peer inside your closed fridge, plan meals, add expiry dates, all that. You can even use Bixby! Imagine that. Bixby.
The Smarter FridgeCam claims to track when you run out of certain items, then reorders stuff through Amazon Fresh
Samsung’s smart fridges appear to start at around £3,200, which is a lot. If you’re a little more enterprising, you could stick a Smarter FridgeCam (£99) to your dumb fridge door and sort of brute force the solution yourself. It claims all sorts of things, like being able to track when you run out of certain items, automatically reorder stuff through Amazon Fresh if you’re close enough to a depot, or allow you to build your own fanciful fridge-driven smart home automations through IFTTT. Guru hasn’t tested it, and he’s moderately sceptical, but he would very much like its promise to be realised.