GE Puts Smart Tech in a Stand Mixer to Seriously Boost Your Baking

If you spend time cooking, or even just watching The Great British Bake Off, you know that in the kitchen, timing is everything. Underwork butter and sugar for a batch of cookies, and you get dense little pucks. Overwork the meringue for a pavlova, and you’ll have a grainy, deflated disaster.

GE Profile contends that its $999 Smart Mixer with Auto Sense will help prevent these and other mishaps. For such tasks, it monitors “changes in texture and viscosity through motor torque feedback,” it explains, a fancy way of saying the device can automatically adjust to avoid over- or undermixing. App-supported “guided” recipes, meanwhile, help even novice bakers turn out handshake-worthy treats such as marshmallows or chocolate-peppermint cheesecake.