One of the hardest parts about making homemade cakes, cookies, bread, or even meringues isn't the actual baking. It's not the weighing of the ingredients. And it's definitely not the mixing — we've got a stand mixer for that. It's knowing when your food is actually ready to come out of the warm oven and onto your room-temperature countertop. If you're anything like me and tend to leave foods in the oven for a little longer, just to be on the safe side, then things are about to be switched up big time in your kitchen.
Among the releases of new tech for 2026 at CES is the new LG Signature Oven range that will prove itself to be especially handy for bakers. Fitted with LG's AI Core-Tech inside, aptly known as Gourmet AI, each oven has a specially-designed camera sitting inside it to monitor your food at all times while it's switched on and warm. Once your bake looks perfectly browned, it'll alert the app on your phone, ready for you to check and remove from the oven. Talk about taking the guesswork out of baking.
LG's Signature Oven
How exactly does this oven work? With a bank of 85+ dishes to choose from, you need to prepare your bake as normal and then tell it what you're making on the app. It will then program your oven with the right temperature setting and timer for cooking this specific bake.
While baking, the Gourmet AI camera will continuously monitor your food and send an alert via the ThinQ app when it detects that it appears ready. You can even view the contents of your oven from your phone, adding some serious convenience to your life, especially if you're often forgetting you've got the oven on in the first place.
Undeniably handy when it comes to perfecting those delicate-to-cook items such as meringues, cakes, and even some types of bread, this way you won't ever have to risk opening your oven and your bake collapsing. This handy technology can offer an extra insight into cooking than your recipe book, all while giving you control, whether you're in your kitchen doing the dishes while your food is baking, or on the sofa watching your favorite movie.
What else is new?
Among the other LG products released at CES 2026 were two refrigerators:
The New LG Signature Refrigerator is fitted with A 6.8" display and inside lives smart AI, which works hard to keep your fridge fresher than ever. It anticipates fridge openings based on getting to know your regular patterns, and to keep your fridge at the perfect temperature, it pre-cools before it anticipates an opening.
The LG Signature Smart InstaView Refrigerator boasts an internal camera that can identify ingredients, suggest recipes based on the contents of your fridge, and more. It's fitted with a T-OLED InstaView panel on its front for both convenience and style.
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