Samsung’s new TVs can use AI to find recipes for dishes from your favorite movies – so you can finally taste Bruce Bogtrotter’s chocolate cake
If you longed to taste Bruce Bogtrotter’s chocolate cake as a child, you’ll be happy to know that your dream can soon become a reality.
Samsung’s new televisions can teach you how to prepare any dish you see at the touch of a button.
As revealed today at CES in Las Vegas, this is possible thanks to a new AI that “recognizes the food on your screen and provides recipes to bring it to life.”
That means you’ll soon be able to bake along with the Great British Bake Off or recreate all the delicious food from films like Chef.
Called ‘Samsung Food’, the tech giant revealed that this futuristic feature would be coming to TVs this year.
In addition to helping you find recipes on the screen, users can also track the delivery of groceries and takeaways ordered through the Samsung Food app.
This feature comes alongside a host of new tools as part of Samsung’s ‘Vision AI’ rollout.
Samsung says these tools will use AI to “make your Samsung TV aware of its surroundings, adapt to user preferences, and be autonomous in delivering intuitive features.”
If you longed to taste Bruce Bogtrotter’s chocolate cake as a child, you’ll be happy to know that your dream can soon become a reality. Pictured: Charlie Hodson-Prior as Bruce Bogtrotter in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
The feature, called Samsing Food, will be available on new TV models released in 2025, including the Neo QLED 8K QN990F (pictured), which was unveiled today at CES.
Samsung Food itself is not new and has actually been available as a mobile app for a few years.
In 2019, Samsung bought food app Whisk before rebranding it as Samsung Food in 2023.
Available on iOS and Android, this app offers AI-powered cooking tools like a meal planner and guided cooking steps.
The premium version, which costs £6.99 (€6.99 US price) per month, also allows users to create recipes from an image.
However, Samsung announced today that many of the app’s features will soon be available on its TVs.
While the TV version won’t have all the features of the mobile version, users will be able to generate recipes based on foods that the television can ‘see’.
What’s not yet clear is how well this new TV-based service will tie into Samsung’s growing network of connected devices.
Mobile users can connect the Samsung Food app to Samsung ovens so they can preheat, set timers and adjust temperatures based on recipes.
This will bring functions from the Samsung Food app (photo) to your TV from this year
Similarly, Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerator features Vision AI, which can automatically add food to your shopping list and generate meal plans based on the ingredients in the refrigerator.
Since the details are a bit thin, it’s not clear whether you can integrate your TV into that network.
However, Samsung does say that TVs can provide updates on orders placed through the Samsung Food app.
Samsung Food will be available on the 4K QN90F, QN80F and QN70F flagship models, which will be released this year.
Yet a recipe app was not the only thing the Korean electronics giant had in store.
During a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the company announced the launch of Vision AI for a wide range of TVs.
These features use powerful AI to enable televisions to respond to on-screen content, predict user needs, and improve audio and visual quality.
The ‘Click to Search’ feature allows users to get ‘instant information’ about what is on the screen.
These changes are part of the rollout of Vision AI, Samsung’s suite of AI tools. These give TVs the ability to search for content on the screen and instantly translate content into any language
Samsung says this will let you identify the actor in a scene, the location of a shot, or even the brand of clothing being worn by pressing a new AI button on the remote.
In addition, the 2025 Samsung TVs will feature ‘Live Translate’, which can provide real-time subtitles for all content, regardless of the original language.
SW Yong, president and head of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics, said: “Samsung sees TVs not as one-way devices for passive consumption, but as interactive, intelligent partners that adapt to your needs.
“With Samsung Vision AI, we’re reimagining what screens can do, connecting entertainment, personalization and lifestyle solutions into one seamless experience to simplify your life.”