First, the pros: cooking with video guidance on a screen and auto precision temperature control is definitely the future. For beginners, cooking will feel like a no brainer. For experienced chefs, you will become more adventurous and confident at trying new hard recipe——-the new recipe success rate is much higher compared to old ways of cooking.
Cons: This is not the company that’s going to push smart cooking to main stream! They have the wrong incentives. Their smart cooktop doesn’t work with other brands of pans. So basically, you have to buy their whole stack of pans, sauce pans and pots. Adding the sold separately smart thermometer, the entire system is costing above $1000. Ok maybe that’s fine, given it’s still relatively new. But the user experience is terrible. The cooktop, the pan and the mobile app need Bluetooth pairing every time and sometimes it wouldn’t work at all. And for days, you wouldn’t be able to cook with it. Besides, that the quality of the cooktop is disappointing at a price of $200. I did some research and found out it’s built based on the same $100-50 cheapo induction cooktop on Amazon. It is advertised as precision cooking. But the temperature control would occasionally overshoot 60F and burn the food...
In conclusion: avoid this company at all cost. Their customer service is non exist..
Also don’t consider Breville Control Freak cooktop which is great at manual temp control but is not smart/no WiFi built in.( Very pricey, given its limited features) Had one, sold it.
On the other hand, I’m more excited by some of these new companies, such as KitchenAutomatique, Typhur and a few others. Keep an eye on them!
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Product Description
THE HESTAN CUE SMART COOKING SYSTEM
WHY CHOOSE HESTAN CUE?: Cue is designed to help you create restaurant-quality food at home. Bring a new level of precision to your cooking. Precise temperature control bridges the gap between home cooking and professional skills. With your Cue, you can set it to the precise temperature and let the pan do the work.
COOK WITH CONFIDENCE: Our smart cookware, smart induction burner, and recipe app work in tandem to automatically control the temperature and timing of each recipe step, so you'll have great results.
COOKWARE THAT CAN FEEL THE HEAT: A family of smart cookware crafted with embedded heat sensing technology. The smart cookware measures the temperature variations of the cooking surface in real time and informs the Cue app of what’s happening in the pan via bluetooth. Know when to flip, baste, or sear at exactly the right moment.
A COOKTOP POWERED WITH INTELLIGENT HEAT: An induction cooktop that gives you to-the-degree temperature control. 1600 Watts of concentrated intelligent heat designed to rapidly increase or decrease the temperature of your cooking surface. The Cue induction cooktop gives you the ability to heat your cookware from room temperature to 450F (or any temperature in-between) in under 45 seconds.
AN APP THAT THINKS LIKE A CHEF: Get to know what perfect tastes like. From preparation to cooking, a guide that orchestrates every last detail. Choose from a collection of recipes that coach you through every step‚ from heating the cookware to preparing and cooking your food. Cooking on Cue is like having a friend in the kitchen keeping track of everything you need to do to create amazing meals.
CUE BRINGS THE SECRETS OF CULINARY SCIENCE TO YOUR KITCHEN: Culinary science is based on how heat transforms your ingredients to unlock flavors and create textures. The Cue Smart Cooking System was created to give you precise control over heat—the most important ingredient when you’re cooking.
500+ combinations of recipes on the Cue App- you can even download it before you buy. More chef-proven recipes are added all the time.
- STEP BY STEP COACHING- The Cue app walks you through every step in the process, complete with chef’s cooking secrets and techniques and secret touches that professional chefs use to make their meals from good to great. Cooking with Cue is like bringing a team of culinary experts to your kitchen to teach you how to think and cook like a chef.
- CHOOSE YOUR KIND OF PERFECT- Cook it your way with Cue. Just choose how you want your food cooked, and Cue takes care of the timing and temperature to serve up perfect results.
- LEARN FROM THE BEST WHILE YOU COOK- We work with a team of chefs from some of the world's most innovative, renowned, and local-legend restaurants. From walking you through recipes to teaching you techniques, they'll be at your side while you're cooking on Cue.
- PLUS optional 'Control Mode' allows you to set precise temperatures and 'Mix & Match' that lets you pick your a protein and sauce of your choice based on what you have on hand.
How Does Cue Work?
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Be Picky- We Can Handle itChoose one of our interactive video guided recipes, select serving size, tell Cue how thick your protein cuts are, select your doneness (eg: medium rare). Let's get cooking! |
Hear the SearCue gets the pan to the perfect temperature. Watch Cue maintain the perfect temperature while showing you a countdown to when you'll need to flip your steak. By communicating between the cookware, burner, and the app, Cue can make dynamic adjustments that help you achieve better flavors and textures. |
Wait your turn- Right on CueCue tells you what to do and when to do it. No more overcooked proteins because Cue gives you to-the-degree control of your heat. As the Cue App gets information from the cookware, it makes micro-adjustments to your cooktop’s temperature. The result is food cooked exactly the way you like it and finished to perfection. |
Perfect Results- Nice Work, Chef!Plate a dish that a chef would be proud to serve. Our recipes are perfected from prep to plating. Create easy culinary victories in your own home with Cue. |
11-inch Smart Pan & Hestan Cue Smart Cooktop
Perfect proteins, pan sauces, shallow frying, and more. Serves 1-4 People. The 11" tri-ply stainless-steel fry pan (Gen 2) was designed, weighted, and formed in collaboration with some of the world’s best chefs - this is what the pros use. Not only does the Cue fry pan have this ultra-premium design, but it is constructed with an aluminum alloy core and embedded temperature sensors that transmit data to the smart capsule located inside the handle.
5.5 quart Smart Chef's Pot & Hestan Cue Smart Cooktop
Great for large batch cooking, slow cooking, braising, frying, and more. Serves 1-8 People. From cioppino, Nashville hot chicken, to delectable sweet chewy caramels, the The 5.5-quart tri-ply Chef’s Pot was designed to feed a crowd. *Chef Pot available separately
3.5 quart Smart Sauce Pot & Hestan Cue Smart Cooktop
From mushroom risotto, Mexican queso, hollandaise sauce, to smooth butterscotch pudding, this Sauce Pot is the perfect addition to your Cue collection. Serve fondue at the precise temperature. Make perfect rice without a rice cooker. Even culture your own yogurt. *Sauce Pot available separately
11-inch Smart Precision Non-Stick Cooktop Pan & Hestan Cue System
Non-stick cookware is preferred by top chefs when cooking delicate eggs, effortless candies, and searing crispy skinned salmon. We use a Non-toxic PFOA/PFOS-free non-stick finish so you can achieve guaranteed results without fear or guesswork. Plus when you can cook with less oil you’ll reduce splatter and eat healthier. *Skillet available separately
Your Go-To Tool In The Kitchen
- Hestan Cue Users cook on average more than 4 meals per week on the Cue. All while using less than half the energy of gas cooking.
- Cook With Confidence. Cue is designed to help you create restaurant-quality food at home. Bring a new level of precision to your cooking. Precise temperature control bridges the gap between home cooking and professional skills. And with your Cue, you can set it to the precise temperature and let the pan do the work.
- Intelligent Heat Starts With Smart Sensors. Forget about High, Medium, and Low—the Cue cooktop gives you to-the-degree control of your heat. As the Cue App gets information from the smart cookware with embedded sensors, it makes micro-adjustments to your cooktop’s temperature. The result is food cooked exactly the way you like it and finished to perfection.
- Your Passion, Our Precision. Culinary science is based on how heat transforms your ingredients to unlock flavors and create textures. Cue was created to give you precise control of heat—the most important ingredient when cooking. The interactive step-by-step directions remove the fear of failure when trying new recipes.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I see the recipes before?Yes! Simply download the Hestan Cue App and create your account with Hestan Cue. Skip the hardware setup step and you’ll be taken to the recipe section where you can browse hundreds of video-guided recipes.
- What's needed to use the Cue?In order to use the Hestan Cue app, you'll need: - a smart phone or tablet running iOS 10+ or Android 4.4+ - an active WiFi internet connection - Bluetooth 4.0+ LE enabled. Unfortunately Cue is incompatible with Amazon Fire, Nook, Kindle, Chromebook
- Do I need internet to use?In order to use the Hestan Cue app, you'll need: - a smart phone or tablet running iOS 10+ or Android 4.4+ - an active WiFi internet connection - Bluetooth 4.0+ LE enabled. Unfortunately Cue is incompatible with Amazon Fire, Nook, Kindle, Chromebook
- Difference between Gen1 Gen2?In order to use the Hestan Cue app, you'll need: - a smart phone or tablet running iOS 10+ or Android 4.4+ - an active WiFi internet connection - Bluetooth 4.0+ LE enabled. Unfortunately Cue is incompatible with Amazon Fire, Nook, Kindle, Chromebook
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| Price | Currently unavailable. | $22.99 | $25.99 | $29.99 |
| Delivery | — | Get it as soon as Tuesday, Jul 30 | Get it as soon as Tuesday, Jul 30 | Get it as soon as Tuesday, Jul 30 |
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| Sold By | — | kunbai | eyourgifts | eyourgifts |
| capacity | 11 inches | 2 quarts | 2.5 quarts | 3 quarts |
| material | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel |
| diameter | 11 inches inches | 8 inches inches | 8 inches inches | 12 inches inches |
| has nonstick coating | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| dishwasher safe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| oven safe | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| model name | — | BLACKPEARL | BLACKPEARL | BLACKPEARL |
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Smart cooking is the future but not with this company and product
First, the pros: cooking with video guidance on a screen and auto precision temperature control is definitely the future. For beginners, cooking will feel like a no brainer. For experienced chefs, you will become more adventurous and confident at trying new hard recipe——-the new recipe success rate is much higher compared to old ways of cooking.Cons: This is not the company that’s going to push smart cooking to main stream! They have the wrong incentives. Their smart cooktop doesn’t work with other brands of pans. So basically, you have to buy their whole stack of pans, sauce pans and pots. Adding the sold separately smart thermometer, the entire system is costing above $1000. Ok maybe that’s fine, given it’s still relatively new. But the user experience is terrible. The cooktop, the pan and the mobile app need Bluetooth pairing every time and sometimes it wouldn’t work at all. And for days, you wouldn’t be able to cook with it. Besides, that the quality of the cooktop is disappointing at a price of $200. I did some research and found out it’s built based on the same $100-50 cheapo induction cooktop on Amazon. It is advertised as precision cooking. But the temperature control would occasionally overshoot 60F and burn the food...In conclusion: avoid this company at all cost. Their customer service is non exist..Also don’t consider Breville Control Freak cooktop which is great at manual temp control but is not smart/no WiFi built in.( Very pricey, given its limited features) Had one, sold it.On the other hand, I’m more excited by some of these new companies, such as KitchenAutomatique, Typhur and a few others. Keep an eye on them!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
Cons: This is not the company that’s going to push smart cooking to main stream! They have the wrong incentives. Their smart cooktop doesn’t work with other brands of pans. So basically, you have to buy their whole stack of pans, sauce pans and pots. Adding the sold separately smart thermometer, the entire system is costing above $1000. Ok maybe that’s fine, given it’s still relatively new. But the user experience is terrible. The cooktop, the pan and the mobile app need Bluetooth pairing every time and sometimes it wouldn’t work at all. And for days, you wouldn’t be able to cook with it. Besides, that the quality of the cooktop is disappointing at a price of $200. I did some research and found out it’s built based on the same $100-50 cheapo induction cooktop on Amazon. It is advertised as precision cooking. But the temperature control would occasionally overshoot 60F and burn the food...
In conclusion: avoid this company at all cost. Their customer service is non exist..
Also don’t consider Breville Control Freak cooktop which is great at manual temp control but is not smart/no WiFi built in.( Very pricey, given its limited features) Had one, sold it.
On the other hand, I’m more excited by some of these new companies, such as KitchenAutomatique, Typhur and a few others. Keep an eye on them!
Smart cooking is the future but not with this company and product
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
First, the pros: cooking with video guidance on a screen and auto precision temperature control is definitely the future. For beginners, cooking will feel like a no brainer. For experienced chefs, you will become more adventurous and confident at trying new hard recipe——-the new recipe success rate is much higher compared to old ways of cooking.Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
Cons: This is not the company that’s going to push smart cooking to main stream! They have the wrong incentives. Their smart cooktop doesn’t work with other brands of pans. So basically, you have to buy their whole stack of pans, sauce pans and pots. Adding the sold separately smart thermometer, the entire system is costing above $1000. Ok maybe that’s fine, given it’s still relatively new. But the user experience is terrible. The cooktop, the pan and the mobile app need Bluetooth pairing every time and sometimes it wouldn’t work at all. And for days, you wouldn’t be able to cook with it. Besides, that the quality of the cooktop is disappointing at a price of $200. I did some research and found out it’s built based on the same $100-50 cheapo induction cooktop on Amazon. It is advertised as precision cooking. But the temperature control would occasionally overshoot 60F and burn the food...
In conclusion: avoid this company at all cost. Their customer service is non exist..
Also don’t consider Breville Control Freak cooktop which is great at manual temp control but is not smart/no WiFi built in.( Very pricey, given its limited features) Had one, sold it.
On the other hand, I’m more excited by some of these new companies, such as KitchenAutomatique, Typhur and a few others. Keep an eye on them!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023
At that point, your guidance is terminated, and you have to at best continue cooking without the benefit of controlled (or even measured) temperature, and at worst throw away the half-cooked meal and look for other sources of food for your family.
Don't expect for Hestan to own up to its infrastructure malfunctions though - it will keep blaming you and only you, from deceptively stating that the app is not authorized to use Bluetooth (as if somehow iOS randomly takes away privileges from apps), to the ridiculous "your network connection isn't strong enough" (see picture). I wonder, how much "stronger" does my Gigabit connection need to be? Bottom line, no food for you until Hestan decides to fix their server. Why they made the decision to deny use of the device in case of Internet outage instead of giving their customers the benefit of the doubt (or doing away with the Orwellian "you must identify yourself to cook" rule altogether) is beyond me.
Well, maybe the software is unreliable, but at least the cookware is good, right? Not quite. The "dishwasher safe", claim is quite dubious: I've had the non-stick coating of the pan peeling off at the edges after a few washes, and water leaking into the supposedly water-tight parts of the stainless steel version. Hestan did replace the units under warranty, but now that the warranty has expired, I'm scared to even look at the dishwasher.
Don't get me wrong: when it works, the Cue system is great. But the sense of playing a food lottery every time you set to cook dinner wears you down over time. Better wait for the PolyScience Control Freak to go on sale, or start with one of the much cheaper alternatives to see how the whole concept of temperature control works for you, instead of getting burned with Hestan's expensive, yet unreliable system.
UPDATE: Taking off a star, because the multi-day service outages are now happening almost every month. It seems Hestan wants to profit from extracting and selling customer data like the big guys, but is unwilling or incapable of fixing outages within minutes or (at worst) hours like, say, Google or Facebook. To make things worse, there is zero communication: the only way to find out if the company has finally managed to fix the outage and your expensive appliances are once again usable is to keep trying - a frustrating and unpleasant process, exacerbated by the continuous false accusations that your "weak network' is the root of the problem.
It will send you to bed without supper...
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023
...and your expensive ingredients - directly to the compost pile. The Cue series guided recipes cannot be used without authenticating yourself to the company - which means, no Internet-no food! Moreover, a recipe will abort in the middle if you somehow lose your authenticated status. For example, that happens if the application crashes or locks up, forcing you to restart it, while the company's server cannot be contacted for whatever reason - loss of Internet or (far more often) just a server malfunction.Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023
At that point, your guidance is terminated, and you have to at best continue cooking without the benefit of controlled (or even measured) temperature, and at worst throw away the half-cooked meal and look for other sources of food for your family.
Don't expect for Hestan to own up to its infrastructure malfunctions though - it will keep blaming you and only you, from deceptively stating that the app is not authorized to use Bluetooth (as if somehow iOS randomly takes away privileges from apps), to the ridiculous "your network connection isn't strong enough" (see picture). I wonder, how much "stronger" does my Gigabit connection need to be? Bottom line, no food for you until Hestan decides to fix their server. Why they made the decision to deny use of the device in case of Internet outage instead of giving their customers the benefit of the doubt (or doing away with the Orwellian "you must identify yourself to cook" rule altogether) is beyond me.
Well, maybe the software is unreliable, but at least the cookware is good, right? Not quite. The "dishwasher safe", claim is quite dubious: I've had the non-stick coating of the pan peeling off at the edges after a few washes, and water leaking into the supposedly water-tight parts of the stainless steel version. Hestan did replace the units under warranty, but now that the warranty has expired, I'm scared to even look at the dishwasher.
Don't get me wrong: when it works, the Cue system is great. But the sense of playing a food lottery every time you set to cook dinner wears you down over time. Better wait for the PolyScience Control Freak to go on sale, or start with one of the much cheaper alternatives to see how the whole concept of temperature control works for you, instead of getting burned with Hestan's expensive, yet unreliable system.
UPDATE: Taking off a star, because the multi-day service outages are now happening almost every month. It seems Hestan wants to profit from extracting and selling customer data like the big guys, but is unwilling or incapable of fixing outages within minutes or (at worst) hours like, say, Google or Facebook. To make things worse, there is zero communication: the only way to find out if the company has finally managed to fix the outage and your expensive appliances are once again usable is to keep trying - a frustrating and unpleasant process, exacerbated by the continuous false accusations that your "weak network' is the root of the problem.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2022
