Reel: The Blind Kitchen

DEBRA ERICKSON: Hello, my name is Debra Erickson and I am the Executive Chef and Founder of The Blind Kitchen. The Blind Kitchen is a web-based company that provides adaptive culinary tools and cooking strategies for people with vision loss who want to cook safely, confidently, and independently in their own kitchens. I want to thank SightTech Global for inviting us to be part of this wonderful event. In The Blind Kitchen, we use technology all the time, from smart speakers to smartphones, talking scales, talking thermometers, and from labeling systems such as Penfriend and WayAround. But there are also some tools in The Blind Kitchen that you may not be aware of, and I want to share those with you. The auto-measure spout is a tool that dispenses exactly one tablespoon of liquid into a pan or a bowl and then it stops. Here’s a clip to demonstrate it. So here we go. I’m going to turn it upside down. And there, voila, it’s magic. It stopped. How handy is that? The second tool is the boil alert disc and you put it in the bottom of a pan of liquid that you want to bring to a boil and it produces an audible rattle when that happens. Listen. So right now I have it on high heat and you can hear the sound. It’s getting louder. And it’s going pretty fast. But sometimes I don’t want a rolling boil. I just want to simmer. I can control the rate and sound of the water just by lowering the heat. The last tool is a liquid alert and it is a device that hooks onto the rim of a cup or a glass and it’s going to give you an audible beep as the liquid rises so that you know when you’re nearing the top of the glass. And now I’m going to pour. There it goes. The good news is it does stop immediately when you take it out of the water. So no more burnt fingers and no more overflowed glasses if you use this tool. So these are just a few of the accessible technology tools that you’ll find at TheBlindKitchen.com. Until next time, happy cooking.