Despite Juicero’s spectacular failure—A $ 400 machine that created freshly squeezed juice squeezing the bags filled with juice– There are still companies that want to bet on bridge-based instant feed machines. The most recent is Cold snap which creates easy serving on demand and other frozen delicacies if you have another piece of counter space to sacrifice bridge life.
It is understandable why companies are still trying to get gold with the approach to instant pod-based foods. In August last year, Keurig Dr. Pepper anticipated his income by 2020 would exceed $ 11 billion, and while with just a little more effort, anyone can create a cup of coffee at home which far exceeds the quality of what a Keurig machine can produce; consumers love convenience.
But the biggest concern with instant and bag-based instant food machines is not the quality of the food or drinks they produce, but the pods and bags themselves. Machines produce a lot of unnecessary waste, and while coffee beans are usually recyclable or compostable at this time, the process of making and recycling them still consumes resources that should not be spent just for convenience when you are halfway there. awake in the morning.
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Instead of coffee or “fresh” juice, ColdSnap creates single-serving portions of frozen delicacies, including soft-serve ice cream, frozen yogurt, iced coffees, smoothies, “healthy shakes,” slushies, and even cocktails. any place between 60 and 90 seconds. . It’s like having a McDonald’s ice cream vending machine and a Slurpee 7-11 appliance in your kitchen for personal use – of course, a very tempting step – but as bridge-based appliances, ColdSnap demands more real estate from the kitchen than most.
The ColdSnap device is not only much larger than a Keurig, but the pods he uses are as big as a box of hard seltzer. They are stable on the shelf, which means that cans and ingredients do not need to be refrigerated, but they will still fight your LaCroix and White Claw cans for pantry space.
There’s no pricing information yet, as ColdSnap launches with a limited beta release in the Boston area this summer, but you can expect the car to be priced at a few hundred dollars, given its ability to quickly freeze ingredients in less than two minutes – plus the cost of pods with a single service. Is it worth the cost? Again, the biggest selling point here is convenience, but for less than $ 100 you can get an ice cream maker that takes out frozen products in about 20 minutes from ingredients already in the fridge and cabinets. With a little patience, you can probably save a lot of money and a recycling bin full of discarded pods.