Eating yummy food is a worldwide pastime. It makes people happy to munch on their favorite comfort foods, indulge in fancy full-course meals or visit their favorite neighborhood bistro for some local cuisine. Some people enjoy cooking their food as much as eating it. The history of cooking is learning how to prepare delicious goodness from raw materials with ever-improving appliances and utensils. Employing cool kitchenware is part of the joy of the culinary experience. There are lots of modern kitchenware out there that demonstrate fabulous function with a pinch of jollification.

1. Smart Coffee Maker

A good coffee maker can perk you up. A countertop-sized device with the ability to brew many different styles of coffee and espresso gives folks barista-style options at home. A coffee maker with smart technology allows users to connect the appliance to their phone connected over wifi or Bluetooth. That means that pre-programmed settings for any style of drink can be activated via phone from any room in the house.

2. Digital Air Fryer

This nifty piece might as well be restaurant equipment, for all the things that you can do with it and the speed with which you can do them. If you want to make restaurant-quality french fries, wings, onion rings and a slew of other goodies, the air fryer's swirling top-down hot air technique can do it. A dehydrator feature can take the moisture out of herbs, fruits, veggies, meats and fish for super-flavorful snacks that will last. The digital piece will allow for more cooking functions than a manual model. Common preset cooking channels include baking, air frying, reheating, roasting, grilling and much more.

3. Bluetooth Electric Smoker

Electric smokers will still give you that smoked flavor that you're looking for. They allow the cook more control than a grill and the Bluetooth feature allows the smoker to communicate with the app on your phone. Through your phone, you can monitor the food as it's cooking, adjust the temperature, set timers and program different preset cooking instructions.

4. Smart Toaster

In a rush? The signature feature of the smart toaster is that it toasts things in a fraction of the time as regular toasters. The touch screen is intuitive and the slots are extra wide to support all of those thick breakfast foods that couldn't fit before.

5. Automatic Pot Stirrer

Sometimes you can get a bit overwhelmed in the kitchen and as you're doing three or four things at once, you may forget something. The automatic pot stirrer allows you to set it and forget it, as they say. Battery-operated, a charge can last four ten or more hours and these stirrers can adjust to many sized pots. Adjusting speeds is simple and this gadget can truly save you from some stuck-to-the-bottom accidents.

6. Food Processor

If this one doesn't grab you quite like the others, you're not giving it its due. A good food processor can chop food into various cuts, convert into a blender and a juicer, too. Some have over two dozen different processing capabilities. They save time and energy, promote healthy eating habits and make multi-tasking in the kitchen less stressful. Models include sensors that monitor the temperature of the food in the bowl. One setting for boiling water would naturally be set higher than that for boiling milk. Indeed, some models are programmed to understand the best cooking times and temperatures for different ingredients.

7. Automatic Composter

Composting is a green finish to the cooking process, and automatic composters make it easy. They are small and quiet, and capable of shrinking food waste down to a tenth of its size in a matter of hours. Odor-canceling mechanisms are in play as well as options for processing animal and dairy products.

Cooking and eating food brings so much joy to people; it's a trend that will never die. As constant improvements make cooking tools more dynamic, the process is improved, to everybody's benefit.