Problem:
People often do not know what to cook with the groceries they have in their fridges or in general what they have in their fridges at all. In addition, based on standard fridge layouts, the first thing in will most likely be the last thing out which often results in rotten and forgotten vegetables and other unloved food varieties.
Solution:
Combining the layout of medical fridges with the fact that almost every household has access to internet! Medical fridges allow for movable trays which offer a facilitated access to the things that are at the end of the fridge without having to take out everything that stands in the front. A stronger design probably would have to be invented based on the higher weight of groceries in comparison to medical things; but this should not be that complicated. Overall, being able to move a tray allows for better organization of and access to the stored food. In regards to what to cook with what one has, the fridge needs to somehow understand what is inside and compare that with a stored or online recipe. Creating a process of being able to assign a variable to a certain grocery might solve that problem; for instance, tomatoes = 1 and burger meet = 2 while of course being able to add the weight of the products as well as expiration date. Although this might enlarge the shopping experience through an increased time that is needed to list what was bought, the positive consequences might outweigh that particular negative as one can now cook certain meals with what is in the fridge and also buy specific groceries that are needed to cook specific meals in time based on the saved expiration date. In the end, meals cooked could be saved, eating habits analyzed based on meals cooked and groceries bought, which consequently could also uncover healthy or unhealthy eating habits through listing calories while saving food due to the on time consumption based on the saved expiration date. Of course this idea needs more development but could add value on multiple fronts.
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